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Guardian Australia is proud to partner with IndigenousX to showcase the diversity of Indigenous peoples and opinions from around the country.

25 August 2022

  • A view from outside Don Dale youth detention in Darwin showing coils of barbed wire on fences and a high white wall and watch tower

    To keep young children out of adult prisons, Australia must urgently raise the age of criminal responsibility

    Cheryl Axleby for IndigenousX
    It won’t fix all injustices but it’s a step towards getting children back to their families and communities where they belong

9 June 2022

  • Australian Parliament House is seen through an Aboriginal flag in Canberra, 5 September 2017.

    Blak MPs give First Nations women hope we might be listened to

    Antoinette Braybrook for IndigenousX
    There is a big job ahead, but we have the solutions. Politicians just need to hand back the power to us

3 June 2022

  • Eddie Mabo and Jack Wailu in 1990 during the high court hearings in the Mabo case

    Thirty years after Mabo, First Nations people are on the verge of true self-determination. We hope not to be disappointed

    Jamie Lowe for IndigenousX
    Australia’s First People have the expertise to negotiate with government, and we will use it to deliver on the promise of native title

2 June 2022

  • The Aboriginal flag

    Australia needs to decolonise its mental health system and empower more Indigenous psychologists

    Vanessa Edwige, Joanna Alexi, Belle Selkirk, Pat Dudgeon
    For Aboriginal people, wellbeing is seen as holistic, with mental health inseparable from connections to family, culture and Country

24 May 2022

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    As we reclaim the stage for Indigenous storytellers, we have a question for colonisers

    Alethea Beetson for IndigenousX
    Our performance honours ancestors, respects Elders and breaks the siloed rules of western arts practice

19 May 2022

  • Sarah Collard

    A forgotten story of the election is First Nations voices are often excluded from the conversation

    Sarah Collard
    Many people I’ve spoken to feel invisible and sidelined in politics, but their concerns should be heard

15 March 2022

  • A woman wearing a facemask is seen holding an indigenous lives matter placard during a Black Lives Matter rally in Melbourne, Australia

    Reporting on Indigenous issues is still woeful but we will keep making noise and keep showing up

    Luke Pearson
    I cannot celebrate while Indigenous deaths are justified and our humanity is debated

25 February 2022

  • Black Lives Matter protesters in Sydney

    The need for Indigenous Australians to be their own narrators is more important than ever

    Will Cooper for IndigenousX
    Social media has allowed community to tell their stories their way, but non-mob must recognise cultural growth and adaption as well as tradition

17 February 2022

  • 6 month old baby Lynette is held by her grandmother Lynette Shields outside her house in the indigenous community of Minmarama Park in Darwin, Saturday, July 5, 2014. (AAP Image/Dan Peled) NO ARCHIVING

    Cultural birthing practices are what Indigenous women need, it’s time we invested

    Melanie Briggs for IndigenousX
    Birthing on country and Aboriginal community-controlled services put culture at the centre of health and wellness which means better outcomes

3 February 2022

  • Invasion Day protest in Sydney

    We know ‘the system’ has long failed Aboriginal people – so why not cyberpunk it?

    Matt Heffernan for IndigenousX
    Indigenous disruption of cruel government policies could further the cause of self-determination and might even help save the planet

14 January 2022

  • The Aboriginal Tent Embassy in front of Old Parliament House in Canberra

    How four men with a beach umbrella made history in the battle for Aboriginal sovereignty

    Jennetta Quinn-Bates for IndigenousX
    Fifty years on, Canberra’s Tent Embassy is proudly adorned with symbols of an everlasting culture

28 December 2021

  • The hands of Indigenous basketball players before a game in Brisbane

    To be Murri is to know that even at your loneliest you are never truly alone

    Jacob McQuire for IndigenousX
    We know each other in a deep, timeless sense. When we yarn the only measurement of time we keep is in cups of tea

2 December 2021

  • Kerry Klimm from Flashblak for IndigenousX. Image taken at Meeanjin 2021, a market showcasing First Nations’ culture.

    Why you should #BuyBlak this Christmas – and all year round

    Kerry Klimm
    Customers know each purchase is upholding, protecting and promoting First Nations sovereignty

18 November 2021

  • Ray Kelly in front of Parliament House

    We have shown that type 2 diabetes doesn’t have to be a lifelong progressive disease. Where to from here?

    Ray Kelly for IndigenousX
    Too Deadly for Diabetes is a proven program backed by research. It could be in every Aboriginal medical service within weeks

11 November 2021

  • Joe Williams for IndigenousX

    To heal, we must untangle the coping mechanisms learned from generations of trauma

    Joe Williams for IndigenousX
    A life of sobriety allowed me to reflect on my behaviours, understand them and implement positive change

4 November 2021

  • Indigenous Australians protest outside WA parliament

    First Nations people are controlled by the criminal system under the guise of protection

    Carly Stanley for IndigenousX
    Policies that continue to disproportionately inflict violence and disruption on First Nations people show we are still a penal colony

1 November 2021

  • A protester holds an Indigenous flag at a black deaths in custody rally in Sydney in April 2021.

    So many Indigenous Australians are arrested and jailed, but this doesn’t solve anything

    Ash Dahlstrom for IndigenousX
    Heavily policing our communities does not reduce crime or combat poverty. It just results in overrepresentation in prisons – and stigmatisation

8 October 2021

  • An Australian Aboriginal flag

    The cycle of Indigenous trauma continues in the workplace. Diversity policies are not the answer

    Mandy Braddick
    Indigenous employees working in Indigenous affairs are living the stories at home and at work, and that comes at a cost

23 September 2021

  • Artist Rhonda Sharpe with her work, as part of the installation of soft sculptures by Yarrenyty Arltere Artists in Larapinta Valley Town Camp, Mparntwe (Alice Springs).

    All Aboriginal art is political: you just need to learn how to read it

    Claire Coleman
    Protest through Indigenous works is not just the preserve of city ‘rabble rousers’. The home of land rights is in the bush, and our art reflects this

8 July 2021

  • The sun sets through trees at Boort in Dja Dja Wurrung country

    Australia’s First Nations people need healing – of our families, our lands and waters

    Ngarra Murray for IndigenousX
    Naidoc week’s ‘Heal Country’ theme demonstrates the need for an awakening that respects the uniqueness of 60,000 years of Aboriginal custodianship
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