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Tom Murray’s compelling film The Skin of Others recreates the meeting of the Indigenous war veteran and the iconic writer
Australians can learn a lot from the life and experiences of Douglas Grant.
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Asio Makes a Movie shows footage gathered by undercover agents of suspected enemies of the state, including Faith Bandler
In the early 1950s, as acute cold war paranoia about possible communist infiltration began dominating Australian politics, the next generation of Indigenous activists took their equality fight to Europe.
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It’s time for that perennial spotlight on national negligence in Indigenous affairs
Here we go again.
It’s time for that perennial spotlight on national negligence in Indigenous affairs, the excruciating parliamentary groundhog day that highlights federal parliament’s failure to govern for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
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Fixing Indigenous disadvantage is more important than a flag. But these things are not mutually exclusive
There’s apparently been some minor unrest over the proposal to permanently fly the Aboriginal flag on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
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Becoming a top arms exporter fits neatly into a national narrative that has become hostage to ‘Anzac birthers’
A nation’s capital should be an outward looking place, a city that faces the world to convey the type of country it represents. What, then, might be the first thoughts about Australia of those who fly into Canberra as they traverse the arrivals hall and concourse at our national capital’s airport?