In a high-profile referendum, the Australian public rejected amending the country’s constitution to introduce a first-of-its-kind advisory body representing indigenous people. Australians went to the ...

Australia’s constitution, which was completed in 1898, and is based on the U.S. Constitution, has been changed eight times—out of forty-five attempts. Amending it is difficult, but not nearly as ...

Australia stands out among Britain’s former settler colonies as the only country that doesn’t have a treaty with its Indigenous people. Nor does it recognize them in the constitution. But Indigenous ...

A referendum to set up an Indigenous advisory body in Parliament was envisioned as uniting the country. The opposite has happened. By Yan Zhuang and Natasha Frost Reporting from Albury and Melbourne, ...

Australia goes to the polls on October 14 in a referendum on whether to enshrine an Indigenous advisory body, known as the Voice to Parliament, into the country’s constitution. In this episode of The ...

Amanda Nettelbeck receives funding from the Australian Research Council. For many non-Indigenous Australians, it might seem the Voice to Parliament – the first step in the Uluru Statement’s process of ...