Survival International, an NGO that champions tribal peoples around the world, has issued a warning about a proposed UN plan to protect 30 percent of the planet by 2030. At the next Convention on Biological Diversity summit, world leaders plan to agree on turning 30%
This is the third (read part 1 and part 2) in a series of articles exploring the history and context of the Pay the Rent idea. What is pay the rent? In essence, it is a private reparations system. The idea is that, without a
This is the second (read part 1 and part 3) in a series of articles exploring the history and context of the Pay the Rent idea. The same week I attended the Uluru Statement event, the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne hosted a public discussion with
Last month I attended an event on the Uluru Statement and Indigenous Self-Determination, held at Melbourne Law School. The chair of the panel was Dr Shireen Morris, the Labor candidate for Deakin at the upcoming federal election, and one of the principal architects of the First Nations Voice proposal. The Voice is controversial. Lidia Thorpe, a Gunnai-Gunditjmara woman and former Victorian Greens MP, said recently, “Don’t support the Statement from the Heart because it didn’t come from the heart – it came from Noel Pearson and Mark Leibler.”