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Queensland National Park Returned to Traditional Owners

Tucked away in the most northwestern part of Queensland, 79,000 hectares of land, gorges and sandstone ranges have been returned to the traditional owners. The Boodjamulla National Park was handed back to the Waanyi people in a ceremony at Parliament House in Brisbane on June 23. A prescribed body corporate of Waanyi representatives will lease the national…


Australian State Premier Says She’s Willing to Go to the UK to Retrieve ‘Priceless’ Artefacts

Queensland state leader Annastacia Palaszczuk says she is willing to travel to the UK to try and retrieve artefacts belonging to the ancestors of local Indigenous communities. The Labor premier’s comments come after the Queensland Parliament, on May 10, passed a new law—with bipartisan support—to set up a “Truth-telling inquiry” to investigate the “continuing impacts”…


Australian State Premier Willing to Go to the UK to Retrieve ‘Priceless’ Indigenous Artefacts

Queensland state leader Annastacia Palaszczuk says she is willing to travel to the UK to try and retrieve artefacts belonging to the ancestors of local Indigenous communities. The Labor premier’s comments come after the Queensland Parliament, on May 10, passed a new law—with bipartisan support—to set up a “Truth-telling inquiry” to investigate the “continuing impacts”…


Humanity Comes Before Identity

Commentary Somebody gave me a DNA test for Christmas. I duly provided the saliva, and my results have just come back. People have often told me that my name is typically English. Well, maybe that’s true, but it turned out that I’ve got almost no English DNA at all—I am, in fact, predominantly Irish and…


ABC Defends Coverage of ‘The Voice’ Debate

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has stood by an interview it conducted with Indigenous leader Noel Pearson following the federal opposition’s decision not to back the Indigenous Voice to Parliament. On April 5, opposition leader Peter Dutton announced that MPs of the centre-right Liberal Party voted “overwhelmingly” to not to support The Voice. Sometime this…


‘An Abrogation of Leadership’: Australian PM Responds to Liberal Decision Not to Back The Voice

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called the Liberal Party’s decision not to back a federal Indigenous Voice to Parliament a “sad day.” In response to the opposition’s announcement that its party members were “overwhelmingly” against The Voice, Albanese cited criticism from Indigenous leader Noel Pearson who likened Liberal leader Peter Dutton to an “undertaker preparing…


‘Unending Conflict’: Former Labor Minister Warns of Clash Between ‘The Voice’ and Native Title Holders

Native Title holders are concerned that an Indigenous Voice to Parliament could erode their hard-fought gains, says former Keating Labor government minister Gary Johns. The now-author on Indigenous affairs and committee member of the No Campaign against The Voice says he has spoken to Aboriginal Native Title holders who are worried a new layer of…


Big Tech Censorship of Australia’s Voice Debate Must Be Stopped: Think Tank

Google and Facebook have been accused of censoring debate on a contentious proposal to change the Australian Constitution to include a special parliamentary body representing Aboriginal Australians. The Melbourne-based Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) said it provided three examples to the prime minister of programs it produced on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament that were…


Money for Indigenous ‘Voice’ Should Go Directly to Struggling Communities: Former NBA Player

The millions being spent on encouraging Australians to vote to change the Constitution should, instead, be directly spent on helping Indigenous communities, says former NBA player Andrew Bogut. His comments come as reports emerge of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese personally lobbying the country’s sporting leagues to back the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, which will effectively shrine…


‘Yes’ Campaign for Changing Australia’s Constitution Officially Launched

The official “Yes” campaign has been launched to support changing Australia’s Constitution to include an “advisory body” for Indigenous peoples. The campaign was launched at the Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute in Adelaide on Feb. 23 by the From the Heart organisation. Semara Jose, a member of the campaign, said the launch would send a…