The 2021 reconciliation report examines the progress we have made so far, while pointing the way forward toward unity. The demand for reconciliation in Australia is as old as its…

The move to change one word of the national anthem was hailed as an important step toward reconciliation. But, as Gamilaroi man Luke Pearson writes, the change reconciles nothing. On New…

The social housing residents of the Waterloo estate have been promised that they will be rehoused once it is redeveloped. But, as Laura Wynne and Dallas Rogers discuss, an absence…

Lyall Munro Snr was considered a legend of the Land Rights movement. But, as Jake Kendall reports, he saw himself as fundamentally a black fella fighting for his mob. A…

1963: YIRRKALA BARK PETITIONS The Australian government appropriates more than 300sqkm of land from the Yolngu people in Yirrkala, Arnhem Land and sells it to a mining company. In protest,…

The age of criminal responsibility in Australia will remain at ten after the nation’s Attorneys-General failed to raise the age. In July, the Council of Attorneys-General (CAG) failed to commit…

Planning laws in NSW woefully constrain the Aboriginal economic independence possible through land claims. Leon Batchelor explores the problem in NSW and finds some encouragement in recent Queensland planning changes.…