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Can we be Australian without eating indigenous food?

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

American food historian Waverley Root once wrote:

food is a function of the soil, for which reason every country has the food naturally fit for it.

Every country, that is, except Australia.

By Australian food we mean the plants, fruits and animals that have grown here and sustained the indigenous people of the land for over 50,000 years. If we eat...

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Changing the conversation can lead to a better way on asylum seekers

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageAustralia’s arrangements with Papua New Guinea and Nauru have not secured sustainable, durable solutions for those asylum seekers found to be refugees.AAP/Eoin Blackwell

Debates on Australia’s policies toward asylum seekers have made an early appearance in the 2016 election campaign. Several current and retiring Labor MPs, as well as...

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