Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung independent Victorian Senator Lidia聽Thorpe聽is calling for urgent federal intervention into the child prison system, after a 17-year-old boy died in the Banksia Hill Youth Detention Centre. Kerry Smith reports.
Lydia Thorpe
A deceitful historical narrative, at best, dismisses the systematic dispossession and genocide of First Nations peoples as being in the distant past. It isn't聽and it needs to be stopped, argues Peter Boyle.
鈥淚n our negotiations with Labor, I鈥檝e asked for their evidence that the Voice will not cede our sovereignty. To date, no one has responded to this request,鈥 Senator Lidia Thorpe told Paul Gregoire.
Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe is challenging the federal government to answer聽how its聽Voice to Parliament plan will deliver First Nations peoples聽sovereignty. Paul Gregoire reports.
First Nations leaders and environmental activists who stopped logging operations in Victoria and New South Wales in early June said the continent鈥檚 environmental crimes can be traced back to colonisation. Traditional Custodians must lead the way on forest management, writes聽Kim Croxford.