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Politics & Society
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‘Disrupt the blinding whiteness of business education’
First Nations businesses focus on unique and generative ways to engage with the economy. But Indigenous business education in Australia needs to catch up

Politics & Society
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‘The field of Indigenous Studies simply gets on with the job’
Indigenous Studies means becoming part of global conversations about the place of Indigenous knowledges and traditions in the world

Arts & Culture
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‘How we bring Indigenous knowledges into the academy is as important as the knowledge itself’
A new truth-telling book shines a light on the past, present and future of the University of Melbourne’s Indigenous cultural collections

Arts & Culture
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Taylor Swift is filling a ‘blank space’ in academic research
A new book explores how Swift studies is bringing the cultural phenomena of Taylor Swift into academia

Discussion & Debate
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‘AUKUS epitomises a pact more suited to the Cold War’
A new book argues that our focus on AUKUS and ongoing dependency on the US makes Australia less safe

Politics & Society
65,000 Years: A short history of Australian art
A new exhibition celebrating the brilliance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, while confronting the dark heart of Australia’s colonial history, has opened at the University of Melbourne’s Potter Museum of Art

Politics & Society
Opinion
‘What version of the past is promoted and what’s obscured?’
As the Yoorrook Walk for Truth travels through western Victoria, we reflect on the colonial pastoralists from that area who dispossessed Indigenous people while enriching our university

Politics & Society
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Remembering the BUMIDOM
A new book explores BUMIDOM, the controversial mass migration program from the Caribbean to France from 1963-1982, and the creative works keeping this memory alive

Arts & Culture
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‘Collective action by working people has transformed Australian history time and again’
From wages and working conditions to the eight-hour day, a new book brings together some of the life stories of the people who propelled Australia’s union movement