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NAIDOC Week is a time to celebrate First Nations peoples and our culture. However this should be an ongoing practice, particularly when approaching decisions about our land. As Maryanne Macdonald, Darren Garvey, Eyal Gringart and Ken Hayward write, it’s time we listened to mob about how we address the impacts of climate change.
If more Australians take an Indigenous perspective on the environment and respect First Nations cultural practices, it would inspire more responsibility for caring for our land and ultimately help everyone, the authors argue. Examples include cultural burning, which has proven to be an effective way to prevent catastrophic bushfires, and First Nations ways of farming, which don’t damage and degrade the land.
We have a long and painful history of not having our knowledges valued, or even our voices heard. This has led to catastrophes such as the destruction of significant cultural sites including the caves at Juukan Gorge. Recognising Indigenous Knowledge is something The Conversation has been exploring, to ensure First Nations ways of learning, sharing knowledge and undertaking practices are acknowledged and respected in the same way we appreciate tertiary education. As the oldest living culture in the world, we’ve had the time to learn a thing or two along the way.
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Carissa Lee
First Nations and Public Policy Editor
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Maryanne Macdonald, Edith Cowan University; Darren Garvey, Edith Cowan University; Eyal Gringart, Edith Cowan University; Ken Hayward, Edith Cowan University
This NAIDOC Week, with the effects of climate change affecting Australia, It’s beyond time to listen to First Nations people who have extensive knowledge of caring for Country.
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Darren Jorgensen, The University of Western Australia; Joseph Yugi Williams, Indigenous Knowledge
During the 1950s, Nat made hundreds of carvings. Today, many of these are likely to be lying unidentified in people’s homes and in museum basements.
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Dale Dominey-Howes, University of Sydney
Again, thousands of residents in Western Sydney face a life-threatening flood disaster. Obviously, nature is a major culprit – but other drivers are also at play.
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Esther Suckling, Grattan Institute; Alison Reeve, Grattan Institute
Grattan Institute projections suggest that by 2060 a mere 600 people will remain employed in major Australian coal mines, down from 40,000 today.
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Paul Glasziou, Bond University; David Henry, Bond University
This winter we’re seeing high rates of COVID and the re-emergence of influenza. So how do they compare, in terms of transmissibility and deadliness?
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Meena Jha, CQUniversity Australia
A new study of academic integrity policies and practices at 41 Australian universities found little evidence of changes to deal with cheating and academic misconduct arising from online assessment.
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John Hawkins, University of Canberra
To assess the prospects of cryptocurrencies, it’s useful to consider how money was invented and became centralised in the first place.
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Phil R. Cummins, Geoscience Australia; Hadi Ghasemi, Geoscience Australia
Oral histories talk about a major tectonic event 250 years ago, which changed the course of a river flowing through Lae today.
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Politics + Society
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Frank Bongiorno, Australian National University
Oversimplified versions of the past lead to bad political decisions.
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Susan Harris Rimmer, Griffith University
The prime minister sent a message to the Chinese government that it should learn the lessons from Russia’s ‘strategic failure’ in Ukraine.
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Jared Mondschein, University of Sydney; Victoria Cooper, University of Sydney
The investigation into the January 6 Capitol riots asks: is the nation’s well-being ensured by allegiance to its laws or its leaders? The founding fathers chose the former – could we say the same for Trump’s inner circle?
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Michelle Grattan discusses the political week that was with Emma La Rouche from the University of Canberra’s Media and Communications team.
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Health + Medicine
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Andrew Lavender, Federation University Australia
Failure to look after your hip flexors can lead to injury, walking problems, posture issues and back pain.
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Environment + Energy
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Julianna Santos, The University of Melbourne; Holly Sitters, The University of Melbourne; Luke Kelly, The University of Melbourne
The new paper also found some mammals are suffering due to a lack of fire.
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Sara Tolbert, University of Canterbury
This Plastic Free July, we need to be teaching children to demand less plastic from the world’s worst producers instead of expecting change from individual recycling efforts.
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Education
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Roderick Neilsen, Deakin University; Michiko Weinmann, Deakin University
There are more than 600,000 students in government and Catholic schools learning English as an additional language.
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Books + Ideas
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Gillian Dooley, Flinders University
Music is featured in most of Jane Austen’s novels and recent research is teaching us more about her personal love of music. What can it tell us about the world of Jane Austen?
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