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    We won’t close the gap

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/542-we-wont-close-the-gap
    19 Feb 2018: The recent Closing the Gap report has highlighted the lack of progress in Indigenous affairs since the apology to the Stolen Generations a decade ago. Although not a specific target, safe, appropriate and affordable housing is acknowledged to be a
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    Dark Mofo 2015 – students immersed in an award winning festival

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2016/36-dark-mofo-2015-students-immersed-in-an-award-winning-festival
    25 Jan 2016: Tasmania’s 2015 Mofo and Dark Mofo festivals have been awarded one of the most coveted awards in the Australian performing arts industry – the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Group Award. Judges stated that the festivals “have captured the
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    Why QAnon is attracting so many followers in Australia

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2020/1050-why-qanon-is-attracting-so-many-followers-in-australia
    24 Aug 2020: By Kaz Ross, Lecturer in Humanities (Asian Studies), University of TasmaniaOn September 5, a coalition of online groups are planning an Australia-wide action called the “Day of Freedom”. The organisers claim hundreds of thousands will join them
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    Why English classrooms and book clubs are life-altering spaces

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/762-why-english-classrooms-and-book-clubs-are-life-altering-spaces
    1 Jul 2019: “The English classroom should be that space where you can broaden your understanding of literature, become a better writer, become a better reader, and become more able to think and talk about the ideas and experiences that you get from books,”
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    First reconciliation, then a republic

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/520-first-reconciliation-then-a-republic
    26 Jan 2018: Professor Maggie Walter, Pro Vice Chancellor (Aboriginal Research and Leadership) and Professor of Sociology, examines Australia Day in this opinion piece for The Conversation. I have always been rather taken with Gary Larson’s Far Side
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    We need a new Australia Day

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/476-we-need-a-new-australia-day
    29 Nov 2017: The decision by ABC Triple J to move the Hottest 100, its popular musical countdown, from January 26 has reignited the smouldering controversy about Australia Day. The radio station has moved the 2018 poll from Australia Day to January 27 after a
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    Explainer: the evidence for the Tasmanian genocide

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/513-explainer-the-evidence-for-the-tasmanian-genocide
    17 Jan 2018: At a public meeting in Hobart in the late 1830s, Solicitor-General Alfred Stephen, later Chief Justice of New South Wales, shared with the assembled crowd his solution for dealing with “the Aboriginal problem”. Voluminous written and
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    Leunig, wellness and wokeness

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1180-leunig-wellness-and-wokeness
    11 Nov 2021: Michael Leunig’s journey from anti-war and anti-corporate provocateur to a critic of ‘wokeism’ and cancel culture is familiar and predictable. We’ve seen other prominent baby-boomer artists, thinkers and entertainers take the same path during
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    Righting the wrongs of the past

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/775-righting-the-wrongs-of-the-past
    9 Sep 2018: Historians are working with Australian Indigenous communities to return the bodily remains of their Old People to country from overseas museums and universities. The early years of Australian colonisation in the late 1700s coincided with the
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    This philosopher is changing the way we think about ethics

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/774-this-philosopher-is-changing-the-way-we-think-about-ethics
    4 Sep 2018: Centuries ago, the English metaphysical poet John Donne famously observed, “No man is an island entire of itself,” conveying a universal truth that humans are necessarily connected to one another, that the human life is a life lived with

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