Past news

ISRC Co-Director Sarah Maddison and colleagues Dr Sophie Rudolph, Dr Licho Lopez Lopez and Dr Sue Mentha have been successful in obtaining funding for an upcoming project.

ISRC collaborator Nikki Moodie (along with her colleague Rachel Patrick) have been awarded the The Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education Best Paper for 2018.

Indigenous Settler Relations Collaboration member Ash Barnwell has been awarded a National Library of Australia (NLA) Fellowship for 2019.

Sexual abuse, harassment and discrimination pervade parts of Australian universities, according to survey results released by the Australian Women's History Network.

University of Melbourne sociologist Professor Karen Farquharson researches race, ethnicity and racism in media and sport - and its impact in modern Australia.

In Australia there are no legal avenues to ensure Indigenous participation in law-making, it’s a fact that sets us apart from fellow settler-state Commonwealth countries, New Zealand and Canada.

An 1839 letter is a tale of adventure packed into 4 pages using overlapping criss-cross handwriting, but it is a deeper record of Australian frontier conflict

The negotiation of a treaty or treaties with the Australian state has long been an aspiration for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and for many progressive Australians as well.

Our democracy will be deficient until Indigenous children can imagine themselves in its future.

A Senate inquiry has recommended that trials of the Cashless Debit Card be continued and expanded to new sites in other states.

The evaluation of the card in the East Kimberley shows limited understanding of its negative economic and social impacts on vulnerable populations.

In 2008 the Council of Australian Governments agreed to a set of targets for Indigenous health, education and social participation. It was a significant moment in the history of the Federation.

Stories push back on the narratives that seek to further isolate marginalised peoples.

Chair of the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council, Warren Mundine, told Q&A that $30 billion is spent every year on 500,000 Indigenous people in Australia. Is that right?

The tracking of lives through government documentation, in particular Aboriginal lives and the lives of other racialised people, has a long history. Jordy Silverstein and Katherine Ellinghaus investigate.

Australia is being held back by its unresolved relationship with its Indigenous population.

Academics at the forefront of Indigenous affairs give their take on the government report that sets goals to reduce the disadvantages of Australia's first peoples.

Education holds the key to closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, says Dr Nikki Moodie.