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The passage to Indigenous enfranchisement has been fraught and hard-won in incremental steps but the status quo in 2016 should give us all pause for thought
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Most cities are indigenous, insofar as they are built on the lands of dispossessed first peoples. Paul Daley, Guardian Australia’s leading voice on Indigenous history, explores whether a city’s ‘indigeneity’ is just a matter of population – or if culture and equality count just as much
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The blunt Tasmanian, running for the Senate again, tells of her ‘chaotic’ days in Clive Palmer’s party, her relief that the Pauline Hanson comparisons have stopped – and why she prefers Clinton to Trump for the White House
The last embers of daylight dance in silver streaks over the gunmetal grey of Bass Strait, out there to the left as we snake up the highway towards Devonport. A distant tanker marks the meeting of leaden clouds and horizon.
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Health services, job losses and infrastructure are among hot-button issues in the diverse electorate that swings with changes in government
bellwether: The leading sheep of a flock, with a bell on its neck.
– Oxford dictionaries
I’m very relaxed about the decision I made and how it might affect this electorate
I said, after I eventually lost, I felt like a jilted lover
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Rural Australia is being progressively hollowed out of its people. Will it be reduced to a vast mechanised place of scant human habitation?
These cows are in no hurry. Each just meanders to the dairy, all rolling hindquarters, swishing tails and loping heads, the blue-black and tan Rorschach ink-blot patching of their hides vivid against the washed-out Australian summer light. They stop as they please along the way. Chew cud. Moo. Drop pats. Moo again. They nudge the soft earth or a companion before snorting and continuing on up through the paddocks to the shed.
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National Reconciliation Week is testimony to the hope and aspiration of many Australians that Indigenous lives and cultures should be celebrated – but the reality tells a less hopeful story
The 25th National Reconciliation Week – an event seeded with admirable optimism that relations between Australia’s first peoples and non-Indigenous Australia can one day be bridged – ends on Friday.