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Aboriginal staff given extra paid leave to recognise the impacts of colonisation

Aboriginal staff at Australia's biggest university can now take three extra days of paid leave each year to help them cope with the perceived ongoing impacts of colonisation. Melbourne's Monash ...
The Conversation

The more you know: people with better understanding of Australia’s colonial history more likely to support moving Australia Day

Olivia Evans receives funding from Australian Research Council. Iain Walker has received funding from the Australian Research Council and the Medical Research Future Fund. Kate Reynolds receives ...
Jurist

Australia indigenous voice referendum fails as ‘no’ votes prevail amongst citizens

Australia’s 45th referendum failed Saturday as polling results revealed a 60 percent majority of Australians rejected the proposal to recognise the country’s First Nation people within Australia’s ...
CNN

A colonial explorer stole Aboriginal spears in 1770. Centuries later, they’ll finally return to Australia

Four Aboriginal spears taken by British explorer James Cook in 1770, thought to be some of the oldest surviving artifacts collected by any European from Australia, will be repatriated to the La ...
The Conversation

Isotope analysis helps tell the stories of Aboriginal people living under early colonial expansion

Shaun Adams receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Mark Collard receives funding from the Canada Research Chairs Program, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the British Columbia ...
The New York Times

After Bruising Vote, Indigenous Australians Say ‘Reconciliation Is Dead’

The rejection of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament is likely to lead to an irreversible shift in the nation’s relationship with its first peoples. By Yan Zhuang Reporting from Sydney, Australia The ...
Los Angeles Times

Did she betray Indigenous Australians or protect them from victimization?

MELBOURNE, Australia — Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was confident and composed when she appeared at Australia’s National Press Club to explain why she, a rising political star who is an Indigenous ...