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We have had 50 years of failure in Aboriginal policies which has needed to be obscured behind 50 years of anthropological spin. The real barriers to the success -- embedded in Aboriginal culture itself -- have been hidden from sight in order to not upset indigenous sentiment. Only the sunlight of an unfettered royal commission has any chance of revealing both truth and remedies

Backed by big names and a starring role in Manhattan shop windows, Aboriginal art is on the verge of a breakthrough.

Backed by big names and a starring role in Manhattan shop windows, Aboriginal art is on the verge of a breakthrough.

From the First Fleet to the courtrooms of Tennant Creek and elsewhere, the one genuinely immutable aspect of 'the world's oldest continuous culture' has been brutality, especially against women and children. Why has the plethora of well-funded Aboriginal councils not tackled the violence? The evidence suggests they can’t solve the problem because they are the problem

In 2022, Australians learnt that Michael Klim had been diagnosed with the devastating auto-immune disease, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP). What they didn’t know was his treatment relied on the plasma found in their blood. Australian Red Cross Lifeblood’s latest campai

This book is about civilisation’s discontents, those who have idealised people outside of civilisation, imagining they lead happy, fulfilling lives at peace with one another and in harmony with the world around them. For most of this time, romanticising this ‘other’ constituted one strand in the thick rope of Western thought and reflection and knowledge

President Cyril Ramaphosa has authorised the SIU to probe the City of Tshwane’s R295-million tender to refurbish the Rooiwal Wastewater Treatment Plant.

For 3000 years, civilisation’s discontents have ideal­ised the non-civilised, imagining an existence of happy and tranquil fulfillment in har­mony with the natural world. During most of this time, romanticis­ing the other constituted but one strand in the thick rope of Western thought. Today, however, what was once a single filament has become the whole rope

Before John Farnham’s You’re the Voice was chosen, there were moves to push another song as soundtrack to the referendum.

Before John Farnham’s You’re the Voice was chosen, there were moves to push another song as soundtrack to the referendum.