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Truth matters: Why we must challenge misinformation wherever it comes from
If truth is to serve justice, then justice demands that we scrutinise claims fro...
Jesse J. Fleay 16 Jun 2026
A decades-old narrative: The confected outrage over Aboriginal Heritage costs
There is a familiar narrative in the way Aboriginal heritage is discussed in Wes...
Dr Anna Fagan 14 Jun 2026
If reconciliation is to achieve its stated goals, it cannot remain merely a symbolic aspiration
With both National Reconciliation Week, and the anniversary of the 2017 signing...
Investing in families, not removing their children, is the answer
Australia tells itself a comforting story about child protection. We tell oursel...
OPINION: Big tech should help pay for the journalism it uses

Public-interest journalism is not free to produce. Every story carries a cost. It takes journalists, editors, photographers, designers, technology, legal care, social media professionals, printing, di...

Reece Harley Reece Harley May 18, 2026
Safety priorities for LGBTIQA+ First Nations people as extremism rears its head

In 2026 we've seen an uptake of visible and physical right-wing extremism. Over the past few years, we've seen this coming slowly but surely, people with hateful ideologies have been given permission...

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Tanesha Bennell May 18, 2026
The ghost of White Australia has finally been named

From founding doctrine to banned ideology: Australia is finally confronting the ghost it wrote into the nation at Federation. From policy to hate groupIn one of the great historical ironies of modern...

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Jesse J. Fleay May 15, 2026
'We are repeating history' - why the Child Placement Principle must remain

Every time an Aboriginal child dies, the response is the same. Not fund services. Not resource families. Demonise an entire culture. I cannot think of a single instance where a non-Indigenous child's...

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Dr Tracy Westerman May 14, 2026
Analysis: NT’s child protection changes ignore experts and inflame culture wars

The actions of the Northern Territory government in the wake of the horrific death of five-year-old Kumanjayi Little Baby reveal both a disregard for expert advice and a preference for culture war pol...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan May 13, 2026
'Respect, rights and reform': Why Tasmania must get heritage protection right

As the Tasmanian Government progresses its overhaul of the Aboriginal Heritage Act, debate continues about the integrity and inclusiveness of the consultation process.

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Mark Harriss May 12, 2026
First Nations energy affordability - 'a goal in the never never'

Electricity access has improved globally, with 92 per cent of the world's population connected by 2023. Still, 666-670 million people remain without electricity, and a staggering 85 per cent of these...

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James Reynolds May 11, 2026
The warning from Farrer

One Nation's rise is not an isolated protest vote: it is a warning about the direction of Australian democracy. The politics of permanent grievanceThe victory of Pauline Hanson's One Nation in the Div...

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Jesse J. Fleay May 11, 2026
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