July 2017

Politicians must face the truth: Indigenous Australia doesn’t accept symbolic recognition | Paul Daley

White leaders have always sought to simplify Indigenous responses to top-down propositions. Perhaps that’s why they don’t understand the Referendum Council’s recommendations for a voice in parliament

  • Paul Daley is a Guardian Australia columnist

There are many Indigenous Australias, multiple nations whose immediate country is as diverse as the tongues in which they speak.

Red dots spatter wall of 'great Australian silence' over black/white frontier violence | Paul Daley

A truth and justice commission that digs honestly and methodically into the murders of Indigenous people will take more than money. It’ll take guts

After the rejection at Uluru of politically mainstream “constitutional recognition”, a pivotal next step in conciliation between First Peoples and non-Indigenous Australia rests with “truth and justice”.