Cemeteries are running out of space, and cremation damages the environment, but there are other ways we could honour our dead ...

“We’ve been managing the river as custodians from the beginning of time, but governments are not asking us how we did that.” Water justice is a critical issue for Aboriginal people who currently own ...

Every employee needs toilets and break facilities, but gig companies don’t provide these, leaving workers dependent on public ...

Monotremes are among the world’s strangest animals, mixing mammalian and reptilian characteristics in the one creature. When British scientists in the 18th Century first saw a platypus they dismissed ...

The Alice Springs crime wave gained widespread coverage in the past week. This crime wave and particularly the data on domestic violence assaults draws attention to a contentious issue that goes ...

Australia’s Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme has published its findings. And it’s a damning read. Various unnamed individuals are referred for potential civil or criminal investigation, but ...

Have you heard of ‘Flat-Earth education’? It’s a phrase I am using as a provocation to highlight a problem – the unquestioning acceptance of the everyday structures and practices of education, ...

Unlike New Zealanders, whose education is rich in Maori language, history and customs, most Australians have only a sketchy understanding of the traditions of their country’s first peoples.

In 1490, Leonardo da Vinci wrote, “If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from ...

Giraffe spots have interested researchers and natural historians for hundreds of years, and indeed humankind for much longer. In fact, they are a key feature in early rock carvings, including ...

Deep in a northeast Kimberley rock shelter on Balanggarra Country is a two metre-long rock painting of a kangaroo. This kangaroo is now Australia’s oldest known, intact Aboriginal rock painting. The ...

Education does not just impart information; it shapes who we are and who we might be. Since 2010, the Australian Curriculum has included an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures ...