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Paul Daley
Paul writes about Indigenous history, Australian culture and national identity for Guardian Australia. He has won a number of journalism prizes including two Walkley awards, the Paul Lyneham award for political journalism and two Kennedy awards. He is a novelist and playwright whose books have been shortlisted in major literary prizes and is the author of the political novel Challenge
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The passage to Indigenous enfranchisement has been fraught and hard-won in incremental steps but the status quo in 2016 should give us all pause for thought
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Most cities are indigenous, insofar as they are built on the lands of dispossessed first peoples. Paul Daley, Guardian Australia’s leading voice on Indigenous history, explores whether a city’s ‘indigeneity’ is just a matter of population – or if culture and equality count just as much
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The blunt Tasmanian, running for the Senate again, tells of her ‘chaotic’ days in Clive Palmer’s party, her relief that the Pauline Hanson comparisons have stopped – and why she prefers Clinton to Trump for the White House
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Health services, job losses and infrastructure are among hot-button issues in the diverse electorate that swings with changes in government
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Sorry Day is an important if not yet sufficient moment of symbolism. Australia has a lot more to do to. And that means a treaty first, recognition second
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It’s beyond time that the country began honestly commemorating its past in conflict, for all its complexities, its good and its considerable bad
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The latest manufactured outrage from the Daily Telegraph and other rightwing groups ignores the experience of the continent’s Indigenous people
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While some people have valued the opportunity to reconnect with the long lost objects of their ancestors, others are heartbroken that their sacred cultural property will soon be returned to the British Museum
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Australian writers, historians and amateurs for whom the digital aggregator is an invaluable resource have taken to social media to defend their treasure from budget cuts. Their simple message: #fundTrove
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In 2014 the former press gallery journalist officially ‘quit’ Australia to form his own nation in Queensland. Almost two years later he is the Yidindji foreign minister, and it’s clear he’s doing much more than making a symbolic point
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When I think of Dad, it’s his awful death my mind fixes on. That’s why I’m so glad Andrew Denton has started a new conversation about death and dying in Australia
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Today is an annual festival of barbecues and slabs, and fetishisation of a flag that, with its Union Jack, symbolises violence and oppression to Indigenous people
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The Museum of Australian Democracy is marking Bonner’s contribution to public life with a painting that traces his journey from a humpy on the Tweed to the Senate
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He’s the foremost spiritual keeper of the yirdaki in Arnhem Land, but Djalu’s true gift to the Yolngu and the worlds beyond has been as a cultural ambassador
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The ugly outpouring of anti-Muslim hatred seen in the beach riots of 2005 could easily be repeated again today anywhere in Australia
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There are plenty of Indigenous people who could argue the case against a new constitutional settlement instead of a white, rightwing columnist
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The battle fought for and by LGBTI couples is echoed in the struggles of former convicts and Indigenous people against state restrictions on marriage rights
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The National Museum of Australia’s show of Indigenous Australian objects is a museological minefield, raising questions about why they cannot stay in the country from which they were taken
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In what he says may be his last – and most personal – book, historian Michael McKernan explores the story of his brother-in-law Joe Stawyskyj, drafted to Vietnam, the horrific injuries he suffered, and the life that followed
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