Sourced essays, parliamentary submissions and public documents on history, racism, colonisation and structural justice in Australia — researched and fact-checked to stand up to scrutiny, not merely to persuade.
First Nations Allies Wynnum’s 21-page submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs. It addresses all six Terms of Reference and advances twelve evidence-based recommendations. Coordinated, integrated and edited by Dr Philippe Foubert.
A formal Cultural Heritage Statement on Barrambin (Victoria Park), Brisbane, in support of applications for permanent protection under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984 (Cth).
Read the statementMegan Davis told a summit of allies that the category has expired. The Constitution belongs to non-Indigenous Australians too, and so does the obligation to finish founding the country: four duties follow, and the hardest asks the majority to limit its own power by law.
Truth-telling must unsettle, and it must also keep people involved. Drawing on First Nations political thought and the psychological evidence on shame and guilt, the essay argues that discomfort serves justice when it becomes responsibility, organisation and structural change.
How Queensland rewrote ordinary safeguards for Olympic development at Barrambin, and how the Commonwealth environmental process failed to restore the scrutiny removed at state level.
Read the essayWhat the evidence actually shows about racism, health and justice for First Nations Australians, and what moving from consultation to shared power requires.
Read the essayWhy historical literacy, not individual prejudice alone, is the condition that lets inherited racism survive, and what it takes to change that.
Read the essayMegan Davis asks Australia to measure reconciliation by consequence rather than sentiment. Read against Queensland’s repealed truth-telling inquiry, Victoria’s treaty, and the Productivity Commission’s verdict on Closing the Gap, her argument yields three tests for allies: authority, leverage, and accountability.
Read the essay Read the annotated guide to the sourcesWhat constitutional analysis and the 2025 Social Justice Report ask of ally communities, read against Queensland’s repealed treaty process, Project Invisibility and the fight over Barrambin.
Read the essayTurrbal and Yugara both lost their native-title claims over Brisbane, and the court closed the question for everyone. Why a negative determination ends no custodianship, what the law demanded that the state had destroyed, and what Brisbane owes at Barrambin before 2032.
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