"It is so dispiriting and its not just the culture clash and the dysfunction of Aboriginal society up against progress, mining companies and the like.. its our complete failure to get services to the people and understand their plight and just provide basic human services.. and to say these people who are living on homelands deserve an education in the same way white people get educational facilities - the instances of bureaucratic neglect and bungling are positively Russian in their scope and character."

Don Watson, 2021

Latest Papers

The working papers collection comprises historical papers as well as current ideas and works in progress on some of the major issues and topics of our times.

Opinion Editorial Financial Review 6 Jan 2006 (released 11 July 2006)
A call for reconciliation with Australia's Aboriginal nations.
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Day of the Terrigal (Audio) (released 11 July 2006)
A commentary on the resignation of Bob Carr read by author Peter Botsman
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Day of the Terrigal (released 10 July 2006)
A commentary on the resignation of Bob Carr
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Democracy: Whitlam's Forgotten and Forbidden Legacy 1960-1972 (released 7 June 2006)
Party Democracy: Whitlam's Forgotten and Forbidden Legacy 1960-1972 a paper presented to the New Institute, Newcastle, 16th November, 2005
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