In 1932 the North Australian Workers’ Union (NAWU) characterised Aboriginal workers as “slaves”. Unionist Owen Rowe argued: If there is no slavery in the British Empire then the NT is not ...

Thalia Anthony receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Stephen Gray does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit ...

The SEP was attacked and forced out of a protest by the Black People’s Union for exposing the class roots of state violence ...

“While slave ships continued to travel around ... in police or prison custody in the past three decades. One Aboriginal Australian inmate, David Dungay, died in similar circumstances to Floyd ...

According to SBS, during this initiative, Aboriginal girls as young ... In addition to this, slavery was actually sanctioned by Australian law in states and territories across the country.

Last December 4, the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation ... The trial made news in Britain and the Anti-Slavery Society established a sub-committee to monitor Australia’s treatment of its ...

Thousands of aboriginal Australians are expected to join a class ... at the time the authorities knew the practice was a form of slavery. In the 19th and 20th centuries, indigenous children ...

Strongly and wrongly, Morrison, who was born in Australia and had been ... a photo from the 1890s showing Aboriginal men in chains – proof that slavery did indeed exist there.

On Tuesday, the Western Australia state government announced a new reparations program for the “Stolen Generations,” Indigenous children who were forcibly removed from their families under racist ...

Accounts of sexual slavery also are documented in Australia among Aboriginal people. No doubt as a result of American exceptionalism and cultural dominance, as well as Eurocentrism, Australians ...