Musquito’s life and death can be read through the lens of a history of invasion and resistance. Or of the difficulties of being placed between two worlds.
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Rock art images show Songlines reached from Murujuga beside the Indian Ocean to the eastern Simpson Desert, 2,300 kilometers away.
Many First Nations celebrate the time when boats from across the Indonesian archipelago were not intercepted by Australian authorities.
For over 100 years, the Victorian school curriculum has failed to give generations of students the chance to learn about Indigenous political movements.
When Shauna Bostock began researching a book on her family, she thought it would be limited to her Aboriginal ancestry. But then a late-night phone call led her down a surprising path.
Non-Indigenous Australians need to actively seek the truth about past violence and injustice against Indigenous Australians.
Beneath the floodplains of Arnhem Land lies a hidden landscape that has been transformed over millennia as seas rose and fell.
A fascinating new collection of essays explores Indigenous deep histories and conceptions of time, showing pre-colonial Australia’s rich human past.
The sad reality is that if the demands of these early activists had been met nearly a century ago, we would not be suffering the severe disadvantage that hovers over Aboriginal lives still today.
In their 1881 petition, Aboriginal people from the Maloga mission who sought greater freedom from missionary control called for the government to grant them their own parcel of land.
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Emeritus Professor, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Professor in Public History, University of Technology Sydney
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McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Lecturer, Flinders University
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Senior Erre Traditional Owner, Indigenous Knowledge
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Director/Chair of Aboriginal History - The Wollotuka Institute, University of Newcastle
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Barrister-at-Law, Indigenous Knowledge
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Emeritus Professor, Department of Archaeology, Classics and History, University of New England
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Former Director of Cultural Heritage, Queensland, Indigenous Knowledge
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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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ANU PhD, Australian National University
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Senior Research Fellow, Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW
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Emeritus Professor - History, La Trobe University
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School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University
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Senior research fellow, Flinders University