Our mob's future isn't in our hands
Tom Calma’s 'Our Future In Our Hands' report: have Indigenous people been white-outed by their own mob? Indigenous Affairs - Stephen Hagan - posted 1/9/2009

Racist attacks raise fears for Indigenous teens
An Indigenous teenager becomes another statistic of a race-based assault. Indigenous Affairs - Stephen Hagan - posted 5/8/2009

We never never seem to learn
Government edicts alone will never change behaviour in Aboriginal communities
gIndigenous Affairs - Rollo Manning - posted 9/7/2009

The contribution of homelands to traditional owners
For Indigenous Australians government policy keeps on changing: 'Sometimes we feel like we are part of a game we can’t play. 'Indigenous Affairs - Jimmy Pascoe - posted 19/6/2009

Racist Australia
Polite and sometimes not-so-polite racism is the underbelly of conservative politics and conservative attitudes.Society - Bruce Haigh - posted 11/6/2009

Are Indigenous perpetrators homogeneous?
It was never a cultural trait to wilfully violate the innocence of our children or brutalise our women, and it never will be.Indigenous Affairs - Stephen Hagan - posted 4/6/2009

Aboriginal assimilation: the Hub of the matter
Rudd is just the last of the colonisers who have waged a relentless race war against the Indigenous owners of this country. Indigenous Affairs - John Tomlinson - posted 29/5/2009

Outstations policy is a fresh attempt at assimilation
The policy of undermining outstations is a threat to Indigenous wellbeing and is against evidence-based research. Indigenous Affairs - Thalia Anthony - posted 28/5/2009

What has native title done for me lately?
The Yorta Yorta native title application may not have succeeded, but we'll always be the traditional owners of our lands.Indigenous Affairs - Monica Morgan - posted 20/5/2009

Opinion : Slurring laws will criminalise Aborigines, not stop crime

Slurring laws will criminalise Aborigines, not stop crime
New laws give police the power to move on people who are slurring their words, cementing a tradition of criminalising Aboriginal people.Law & Liberties - Thalia Anthony - posted 18/5/2009

After the Apology: still keeping our distance

This article is not about the apology itself. What I want to talk about is “the where and how to from here” in the murky and politically undiscussed terrain of race relations in Australia.

In mid November 2009, Foreign Editor for The Australian, Greg Sheridan, stepped out of his usual world affairs role and wrote a short article based on his visit to Hopevale in Cape York. By referring to Sheridan’s article my aim is not to talk about Northern Queensland, but to focus on what the article says between its lines about the relationship between of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Along with acknowledging his inexperience of Aboriginal Australia, Sheridan makes a poignant statement: he says “I wish I had more Aboriginal friends, more contact with the communities”. This statement is obviously genuinely felt, and I would hazard, resonates with the feelings of many other non-Indigenous Australians.

The question for me is why Greg Sheridan doesn’t, especially given his long-standing prominent position of one of Australia’s leading journalists, have more knowledge and have more Aboriginal friends. And to take the focus off Sheridan, this question can be extended to the vast majority of other non-Indigenous Australians. Why don’t Indigenous Australians know more about and know more Aboriginal people than they do?

Dear Minister Macklin

Minister Macklin, you were reported saying the 'Rudd Government has no intention of creating another ATSIC'. But what exactly is 'another ATSIC'?
Indigenous Affairs - Stephen Hagan - posted 23/1/2009

My Queensland

Tara June Winch / Griffith REVIEW
To some the state of Queensland conjures apartheid births and prototypes, stolen Aboriginal wages, native title rise and fall, the National Party, the Country Party, and any other Queensland wheat-belt-born party with a minority to vilify, but is this all in the past? Posted 28-08-2008

The business of Indigenous affairs

The recent history of Indigenous affairs in Australia is a tale of noble aspirations, enthusiastic efforts, modest successes and significant failures.
Indigenous Affairs - Kevin Andrews - posted 25/8/2008

Marrying outside the mob

The issue of race and mixed marriage has been the subject of much debate around camp fires and in lounge rooms of Indigenous households.
Indigenous Affairs - Stephen Hagan - posted 17/7/2008

Power intoxication

Until we have an Indigenous representative body the government will continue to laugh at our fractured leadership and play wedge politics at their convenience.
Indigenous Affairs - Stephen Hagan - posted 19/5/2008

What’s the point of teaching languages?

A first practical step towards reconciliation in Australia would be to teach a local Aboriginal language in schools.
Feature - Brian Manning - posted 12/5/2008

We need a seismic shift in attitude

Kevin Rudd has made a commitment to report annually on his government's efforts in closing the gap of Indigenous disadvantage.
Indigenous Affairs - Stephen Hagan - posted 7/5/2008

Branding girls for s*x

A contraceptive quick fix does nothing to address sexual abuse in Indigenous communities.
Indigenous Affairs - Melinda Tankard Reist - posted 6/5/2008

Whitefella education won’t work

To achieve better educational outcomes for Indigenous Australians we need to give tangible evidence that we value their cultures as much as we value our own.
Indigenous Affairs - Jan Ferguson - posted 21/4/2008