Australia’s rising Aboriginal deaths in custody: Law-and-order and the assault on the working class

Australia has recorded the highest number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths in custody in more than four ...
World Socialist Web Site

Australian Aboriginal professor Marcia Langton presents indigenous business as “the way forward”

Amid a worsening cost-of-living crisis devastating all working-class households, including the indigenous ones, prominent Aboriginal academic Marcia Langton has doubled down on her agitation for ...
Chicago Sun-Times

In Australia, many Aboriginal communities don't abide by mandatory voting law

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Reuters

"Utopia" seeks change for Aboriginal Australians

LONDON (Reuters) - Veteran investigative journalist John Pilger accuses Australia of running a system of apartheid towards its Aboriginal communities in a new documentary released in cinemas in ...
Jurist

Alice Springs’ Alcohol Problem: Will Restrictions Reduce Crime in an Australian Town With a Large Indigenous Population?

The current crime rates have grave implications for the human rights of Alice Springs residents. In an interview with ABC News (Australia), Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney said that ...
The Diplomat

What Voice Will We Give to Australia’s Future?

As Australia moves toward January 26 this year, I do so with a heavier heart than usual. There are a few reasons for this. The history of January 26 is indelibly inked, yet what comes next remains a ...
The Conversation

In The Australian Wars, Rachel Perkins dispenses with the myth Aboriginal people didn’t fight back

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Time

COVID-19 Reaches Australia’s Remote Aboriginal Communities—Highlighting a Perilously Slow Vaccine Rollout

It’s not easy to get to Goodooga. The tiny Australian town is about a nine hour drive from Sydney, and miles from the closest two-lane highway. But that didn’t stop COVID-19 from reaching the ...
The Conversation

How early Australian fairy tales displaced Aboriginal people with mythical creatures and fantasies of empty land

Michelle Smith does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...