Recognising African agency in colonised territories allows us to rethink borders and revise history.
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Christening the new interisland ferries Kupe and Cook is a reminder that what we name things matters, shaping our sense of ourselves over time.
The results reveal new patterns in how Pacific societies shaped their built environment after European contact.
In Tasmania’s remote southwest, dry lightning storms are starting huge conflagrations across treeless plains. Could a return to cultural burning help?
Just like everyone and everything else that was already in Australia when the First Fleet arrived in 1788, dingoes had to adapt to their new reality.
Earth is the only home humans have ever known. But that might not be the case for much longer.
The landmark Bringing them Home inquiry was a chance to come to terms with the past. But the key recommendations of apology and compensation were rejected.
Kate Grenville’s book successfully intertwines national and personal history to evoke Australia’s past – but multiculturalism challenges her idea of collective memory.
Children placed in state care from 1950 to 1999 have had significantly shorter average life expectancies than the wider population, this new analysis shows.
Archaeologists and Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people are shedding new light on a series of enigmatic earth rings located in southeastern Australia.
Gifting has evolved dramatically in Africa since humans first evolved the instinct to give.
Africa has a hunger crisis: it’s time to change the approach to agriculture.
Research shows Indigenous voices and stories are sorely lacking from Australian classrooms. This is key component of truth telling and reconciliation.
The first project to examine Australian Wikipedia entries finds topics such as Australian history and use of First Nations place names are sparking ‘edit wars’, with some serious omissions.
Social investment policy involves intervening early to reduce the cost to the state from at-risk groups. But a purely fiscal approach to social welfare ignores the systemic causes of poverty and need.
By limiting the syllabus to events post-1788, the NSW Education Standards Authority indirectly sends students the message that Australia’s ‘history’ began at colonisation.
Efforts by First Nations groups to thin dense forest regrowth have come under fire in Victoria. The solution isn’t to restore “wilderness” – it’s to manage Country.
Many people may assume New Zealand’s native birds arrived via Australia. But our new research on the Auckland Island merganser shows they originated from much further away.
Lowering Indigenous incarceration rates is a key aim of the Closing The Gap targets, but there are more First Nations people behind bars than ever. How did this happen and what can fix it?
To First Nations women, ‘care’ is more broad and all-encompassing than traditional definitions. We need a new approach to capturing, and appreciating, their work, paid and unpaid.
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Professor of Global Change Science at University of Leeds, UCL
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Professor, Australian and Aboriginal History, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, Convenor: Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW
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Professor in Public History, University of Technology Sydney
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Co-Director, Australian Centre for Indigenous History, Australian National University
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DeWitt Wallace Professor of Geography, Director of Food, Agriculture & Society Program, Macalester College
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Associate Professor in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Colorado State University
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Senior Lecturer, Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Professor of Earth System Science, UCL
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Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, Critical Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University
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Professor of Archaeology and Biological Anthropology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Professor of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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