Australian Indigenous Peoples
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Reconciliation and Colonialism
By: Tyson Yunkaporta
Excerpts from an open letter to the Australian Prime Minister by Gungalidda Elder Wadjularbinna Nulyarimma in 2005, on the realities of reconciliation. more...
By: Tyson Yunkaporta
Amidst conflicting gender roles and stereotypes, Indigenous boys explore their options for becoming men in the modern world. more...
Howard and Aboriginal Australia
By: Tyson Yunkaporta
The record of John Howard's interaction with Australian Aborigines from 1996 to 2007 reveals an aggressive colonial agenda. more...
Wangkumarra, Native Title, Mining
By: Tyson Yunkaporta
Mining giant Santos is ripping off the Wangkumarra people and destroying the land through petroleum mining and "seismic line" exploration techniques. more...
By: Tyson Yunkaporta
The myth of Aboriginal genetic deficit is becoming reality through malnutrition and a plague of Syndrome X that is becoming hereditary through intergenerational poverty. more...
By: Tyson Yunkaporta
An excerpt from Keating's 1992 speech at Redfern, Sydney. The political climate around Aboriginal rights has certainly changed since then. more...
Indigenous Cosmology and Science
By: Tyson Yunkaporta
Aboriginal cosmology, dismissed as "myth", has a lot to offer science in the quest for "extra-terrestrial life and intelligence". The problem is defining the terms. more...
Pearson's Aboriginal Literacy Push
By: Tyson Yunkaporta
In Australia, millions of taxpayer dollars are being spent on a phonics program to turn back the clock on Indigenous education. more...
By: Tyson Yunkaporta
Excerpts from a speech by Georgina Williams Yambo Kartanya, Ngangkiburka Kaurnayerta (Senior Woman, Kaurna Country), about recovering stolen identities. more...
By: Tyson Yunkaporta
The Howard Settler Government's invasion of the Northern territory is land-grabbing racism nothing more. Statement from activist Robbie Thorpe. more...
Military in Aboriginal Communities
By: Tyson Yunkaporta
In Australia, the military has been deployed in an Indigenous community in response to allegations of paedophilia. more...
By: Tyson Yunkaporta
The harrowing story of Millicent, an Aboriginal child labelled "half-caste" and taken from her family by the Aboriginal Protection Board then repeatedly sexually abused. more...
By: Tyson Yunkaporta
The myth of race has long dominated definitions of Aboriginality in Australia, impacting on the plethora of Aboriginal policies that continue to marginalise our peoples. more...
By: Tyson Yunkaporta
Australian Aborigines suffer far higher rates of mental illness than non-Indigenous peoples. But who is causing this crisis, and more importantly, who is measuring it? more...
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