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The Darumbal people say Black Gin Creek is a racist way to describe an Aboriginal woman, and Queensland's Longreach Regional Council has finally agreed to change it.
An Aboriginal Senate candidate has slammed Australians who falsely claim to be Indigenous, pointing out this deprives needy people in remote areas of help. Alice Springs Deputy Mayor Jacinta Price has spoken out against the rising trend of white people lying about being Indigenous on government forms, as identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander becomes more politically fashionable. 'It just shows a level of ignorance. It's not doing marginalised Indigenous people a favour whatsoever,' she told Sky News host Rita Panahi. 'This is all very self-driven. There's a lot of people in this...
Reconciliation Week marks a period for all Australians to reflect honestly on the treatment of Aboriginal a...
A proposal to rename a road named after Queen Victoria in the inner west of Sydney because of its 'colonial links' has sparked heated debate and accusations of racism.
Review: Biting the Clouds: a Badtjala perspective on the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act by Fiona Foley, UQP In late 1897, the colonial Queensland parliament introduced the oddly named the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, joining colonial panic about Aboriginal people’s opium use with a new regime of protective governance. Concern about this — especially the use of charcoal opium, the toxic ash left in pipes — had been growing since the 1870s, and there was evidence opium was being used as payment for Aboriginal labour and...