Jacinta Walsh’s great grandmother navigated oppressive policies her entire life, and didn’t have a public voice. Now, however, through the family’s storytelling, she does.
An analysis of 82 million words has revealed that the relative attention Australia’s news and opinion pieces gave to First Nations peoples began to grow steadily from about 2005, with a huge peak in 2007.
Labor has long been seen as the party of bold policy platforms, while the Coalition has played more of a consolidating role. The next election will determine if those characterisations still hold.
Australia’s first female Indigenous ambassador, Julie-Ann Guivarra, is now focusing her diplomatic lens on gender equality.
A genuine partnership needs to be established between the government and Aboriginal people to get Closing the Gap targets back on track.
There's still a lot to be done if we're to right the wrongs, five years on from the national apology delivered by Julia Gillard.
Kevin Rudd's apology to Indigenous Australians 10 years ago was a momentous, but ultimately futile, gesture.
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