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It may surprise some Australians that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander boys born in the Northern Territory and Western Australia have a shorte...

I am what the politicians and powerful elites like to call a “grassroots” Aboriginal woman. In March, I was given the opportunity to speak at the N...

Two weeks ago, I had a life-changing experience: I went on a trip to Canberra to campaign for a constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice as c...

The Voice to Parliament must be enhanced and guaranteed, otherwise hostile governments will always try to destroy it.

On the eve of the federal election, prime minister John Howard kicked off his campaign at the Wentworth Sofitel Hotel on October 17, 2007 with a sp...

Constitutional law professor Megan Davis has backed Noel Pearson’s calls to delay a voice to parliament until a referendum for recognition in the n...

A plan to have local and regional Indigenous Voices underpinning the national body warrants more attention.

Indigenous leader Noel Pearson says Australia is incomplete without constitutional recognition of First Nations people, as leaders renew calls for ...

Let me start with the question of “what?” What is it that we are engaged in, and have been ever since John Howard made the commitment at the beginn...

Noel Pearson says a decades-long push for constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders is not a project of “woke identity p...

The funeral procession hadn’t started yet. There was a feeling of distracted restlessness overlaid with the grief for another of our people who had...

Leaders who signed the Uluru statement have stepped up their campaign for a guaranteed pathway to a constitutionally enshrined­ Indigenous voice to...

Bandt said the order of the reforms in the Uluru Statement should be changed from Voice, Treaty, Truth and retrofitted to the Greens’ preference of...

Campaigners for a constitutionally enshrined indigenous voice to parliament have been buoyed by polling indicating support for the concept is incre...

Most Australians, especially Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, are frustrated with the annual parliamentary ritual of lamenting the la...

A group of leading indigenous figures has warned that any constitutional change which does not include an enshrined “voice to parliament” will be ­...

There is no denying the nationwide protests on Saturday, leveraging off Black Lives Matter and the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in ...

I’m getting placards made up. What do we want? Rigorous evaluation of real world outcomes of Indigenous policy interventions, based on robust quant...

If the coronavirus pandemic has revealed anything it is that entrenched ideologies cannot produce solutions. In deeply challenging times like these...

A new campaign will seek to galvanise support for a constitutionally enshrined First Nations voice to Parliament, with polling suggesting half the ...

Twenty years after Linda Burney helped organise the iconic walk for reconciliation across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the federal Labor MP fears the...

Three years ago, Indigenous elders and community leaders gathered in the Northern Territory and signed the Uluru Statement from the Heart. The stat...

One of Australia’s most prominent philanthropic families will fund scholarly work to underpin the constitutional reform called for in the Uluru Sta...

As we reach another Australia Day/Invasion Day/Survival Day I reflect on the Uluru Statement from the Heart, the very generous offer made by First ...

It has been two years since the Referendum Council endorsed the Uluru Statement from the Heart, an open invitation from Aboriginal and Torres Strai...

It’s a great honour to be invited to speak here this evening. I’m going to talk about constitutional recognition and the enabling of a voice for In...

On July 18, the former chief justice of the High Court of Australia, Murray Gleeson, delivered a powerful endorsement of the proposal for constitut...

Australia’s national identity today encompasses many histories… Overshadowing all of those histories in its temporal sweep is that of Austral...

Some of the warnings to Scott Morrison from Coalition MPs and right-of-centre commentators about indigenous constitutional recognition are wise. 

Scrutinising the Australian Constitution with a view to identifying material that may offend current standards of political correctness is hardly a...

The significance of the Morrison government’s commitment during NAIDOC Week to a referendum on a constitutionally enshrined Voice to the Parliament...

At Uluru in 2017, Indigenous Australians made clear that the kind of constitutional recognition they wanted was a living and continuing recognition...

On election night I was swapping messages with a good friend, a passionate, smart, generous advocate for Indigenous people who was now despondent. ...