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26 Oct 2024The foundation stones of reconciliation, truth telling postponed againHenry Reynolds
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23 Oct 2024Thorpe unmasks the coloniser who visited genocide on Australia's First NationsTony Smith
15 Oct 2024Myths of the ReferendumTony Smith
14 Oct 2024What will follow the referendum?Margaret Reynolds
13 Oct 2024History's wound, still open wideRoger Chao
6 Oct 2024Indigenous cultures show other worlds are possibleRichard Eckersley
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10 Aug 2024Political capitulation, moral failureHenry Reynolds
7 Aug 2024There’s no escaping the wrongs done to Indigenous peopleRichard Hil
23 Jul 2024Uncle Robbie Thorpe progresses Aboriginal genocide case in Victorian Supreme courtPaul Gregoire
22 Jul 2024It’s the Voice of ‘Rural Nullius’ on a Jim Crow Country HourBrian Burkett
12 Jul 2024Eyes to seeSamantha Helps
3 Jul 2024Last chance for the War MemorialHenry Reynolds
10 Jun 2024The real truth tellingJohn Lawrence
4 Jun 2024Canberra bureaucrats commissioning NT houses unfit for purposeJack Waterford
29 May 2024Nova Peris' apologism for colonialism and genocideMichelle Berkon
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16 May 2024Another road for “Made in Australia”Geoff Miller
7 May 2024Australian politicians lock more people up, for longerGreg Barns
19 Apr 2024Terra nullius 2.0 – what AUKUS means for First Nations peoplesBen Abbatangelo
13 Apr 2024The Voice and Australia’s democracy crisisLucy Hamilton, Stephen Charles
9 Apr 2024The crimson thread of racism festers in the darker interstices of Australian cultureAllan Patience
19 Mar 2024After the (failed) referendum dust settlesPeter Smith
27 Feb 2024Australia's First Nations still looking over the 1788 chasmJack Waterford
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15 Feb 2024Closing the Gap: Governments must modernise their approach to Indigenous corporationsMorgan Brigg, Prue Brown
25 Jan 2024How labelling is concealing common ground on climate, COVID and indigenous issuesTerry Russell
8 Jan 2024The social contract and The VoiceJohn Tons
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18 Nov 2023We are the custodians of the future, you and IChristine Owen
16 Nov 2023Cruel and mendacious: It’s not the Voice that “failed”Stephanie Dowrick
1 Nov 2023Racism: The unstated Australian agenda?Henry Reynolds
29 Oct 2023What happened to Indigenous Rights? The world will judge Australia harshlyHenry Reynolds
26 Oct 2023The racial contract of settler colonialism Suvendrini Perera and Joseph Pugliese 
25 Oct 2023This country has witnessed a counter-revolution against First Nations rightsHenry Reynolds
24 Oct 2023A statement for our people and our countryThe Uluru Dialogue
23 Oct 2023It’s time to tell the truthYoorrook Justice Commission
21 Oct 2023Australia has shown itself to be a selfish nation that lacks empathyGregory Andrews
21 Oct 2023The Voice: what the world heardFrances Cowell
19 Oct 2023The Voice: caught between a socio-economic hammer and anvilDamien Kingsbury
18 Oct 2023Another day in the colonyRichard Hil
18 Oct 2023Is the No victory another signal of voters’ distrust of democratic reps?Eva Cox
18 Oct 2023Our mainstream media failed this country during the Voice referendumRanald Macdonald
17 Oct 2023Rejected by the people who dispossessed and colonised themFrank Brennan
17 Oct 2023The Poisoned WaterholeGeoff Pryor
17 Oct 2023The Voice, a broken system and the righting of old wrongsJane Salmon
17 Oct 2023The Voice has been silenced, but now we must listenJack Waterford
16 Oct 2023The failed referendum is a political disasterBhiamie Williamson
16 Oct 2023Dutton’s Pyrrhic victoryNoel Turnbull
15 Oct 2023Australian politics has reached a dead endAllan Patience
14 Oct 2023Voice to Parliament: An Australian test of characterPearls and Irritations
14 Oct 2023Dark money is distorting the Voice debateLucy Hamilton
14 Oct 2023While Australia votes, India-Pakistan cricket is downstream of politicsRamesh Thakur
13 Oct 2023Was the Uluru Statement of the Heart a prophetic vision for Australia?Laurel Clare Lloyd-Jones
12 Oct 2023Our Central Land Council “overwhelmingly asks you to vote YES”Stephanie Dowrick
12 Oct 2023I am voting Yes, but many No voters support reconciliationDavid Absolum
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11 Oct 2023The Voice: through the disinformation to the source of oppositionFrances Cowell
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3 Oct 2023This land cries out in final warningSamantha Helps
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27 Sep 2023Karla Grant explores Norway's 34-year Indigenous Voice to ParliamentAlicia Vrajlal
26 Sep 2023Leadership from Paul Keating on recognition of Aboriginal dispossession -1992Paul Keating
24 Sep 2023In the chorus of Yes, why aren't the bishops joining in?John Warhurst
23 Sep 2023The Great Australian SilenceNoel Turnbull
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18 Sep 2023Smothered indigenous voicesDaryl Guppy
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2 Sep 2023Religion and social policy network welcomes the Statement from the HeartReligion and Social Policy Network

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