The Conversation is running a series of explainers on key moments in Australian political history, looking at what happened, its impact then, and its relevance to politics today. Since coming into ...

JURIST Guest Columnist Anne Twomey of the University of Sydney Law School says that there are considerable challenges to passing the proposed changes to the Australian Constitution, in large part ...

A panel of Australian citizens is expected to set the tone Thursday for a planned constitutional referendum to better recognize the indigenous population that inhabited the vast continent long before ...

An Australian panel on Thursday suggested changes to the country’s Constitution to give better recognition to the indigenous population that inhabited the vast continent long before Europeans settled ...

Melissa Castan has received Commonwealth funding for a project on native title and will be commencing an ARC Linkage grant on Indigenous birth registration in 2012. Last week, the Expert Panel on ...

In 2017, 250 First Nations people gathered together from across Australia to draft and sign the Uluru Statement from the Heart. The Uluru Statement proposed a First Nations Voice to Parliament, a body ...

Australians marked the 235th anniversary of British colonization Thursday with a public holiday that evokes anger at Indigenous injustice, focusing national attention on a new government push to ...

The Australian Labor government’s official release of its wording for a proposed referendum on a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous Voice to Parliament has caused consternation among many ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

“This rock is an awesome feature,” says James, a ranger of the Anangu people in central Australia. “It’s a story book.” The story may be about to get longer. James is standing at the base of Uluru, a ...