by Wallace McKitrick This is the second instalment of a three-part series that examines the literature of First People’s writers assertions of unceded sovereignty. The fabric of self-determination In Part One of this article, posted previously, various authors’ presentations of the continuous self-determination struggles and frequent victories of the last 100 years remind us that it would be a mistake …

by Wallace McKitrick This is the first instalment of a three-part series that examines the literature of First People’s writers assertions of unceded sovereignty. Introduction This article arises from re-reading several important books published in the last 50 years along with recent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers’ pro-sovereignty critiques of the recent constitutional referendum proposition. Collectively they demonstrate that …

by Lyn Longo If one survives to a reasonable old age, we all carry scars. Some have been impacted by family violence, the death of a partner, child or other significant person. Many bear the physical scars of accidents, have health issues, disability, or carry the results of a dissolute youth. Our scars may be visible to the eye, but …