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When everything and everyone is racist, the worst offenders hide in plain sight

Bernard Keane — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:49:00 +0000

In a world where so much is decried as racist, those who traffic in overt bigotry no longer stand out.

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Locking up 10-year-olds is racist by design and in effect

Michael Bradley — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 23:34:17 +0000

If the age of criminal responsibility is lowered, almost all of the extra children arrested, incarcerated and institutionalised will be Indigenous.

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Anthony Albanese’s shifting stance on the Makarrata Commission is cowardly

Celeste Liddle — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 02:22:08 +0000

What Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person could actually say we get a better deal when a Labor government is in power?

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Lidia Thorpe sees her Senate spot as the Greens ‘paying the rent’

Rachel Withers — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 02:08:13 +0000

The independent senator won’t try to stay in Parliament when her six-year term comes to an end. But she hopes to pass her Senate seat onto another proud Blak activist

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Lee Point’s destruction for defence housing is an ecocide massacre

Mililma May — Mon, 06 May 2024 01:45:40 +0000

'The community that has formed across this country will never forget the violence of the colony, the silence of our elected members, and the devastating failures of our heritage and environmental legislation.'

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‘I did not know of the massacres, I am ashamed to say’: Premier’s education gap has lessons for us all

Celeste Liddle — Thu, 02 May 2024 23:26:58 +0000

Jacinta Allan's admission that she only learnt the horrific history of massacres in Victoria while prepping for the Yoorrook Justice Commission points to a much broader social problem.

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Indigenous peoples can’t be collateral damage in the push for a green future

Benjamin Abbatangelo — Thu, 02 May 2024 01:49:40 +0000

'The expectation is that Aboriginal people should merely be passive beneficiaries through the form of unfair, prohibitive and paternalistic mining royalty schemes.'

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Like many Aboriginal kids we’ve lost too soon, this child was loved by his family, not by the state

Benjamin Abbatangelo — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 23:05:28 +0000

No words can express the devastating suicide of a 10-year-old Aboriginal boy held in the custody of the state and denied the care of his family.

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‘Too many Aboriginal babies’: Australia’s secret history of Aboriginal population control in the 1960s

Laura Rademaker — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 00:46:30 +0000

Most Australians are now familiar with the Stolen Generations. But fewer people know that eugenic practices seeking to limit Aboriginal populations continued even in the second half of the 20th century.

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Monitoring ankle bracelets for children? This demonises kids — and puts Treaty at risk

Nerita Waight — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 22:18:46 +0000

The Victorian government has decided monitoring bracelets for children and a weakened commitment to raising the criminal age of responsibility will address youth crime. All it will do is put more kids in prison.

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