Aboriginal people have for thousands of years formally welcomed people onto their country. When other Aboriginal nations visited to trade, it was accompanied by welcoming ceremonies, explains Chris Graham.
Articles by Chris Graham 
Holding their breath for Palm justice
This latest inquest into the death of Mulrunji Doomadgee is being watched by Indigenous people around the nation for one simple reason: it represents the best chance yet for justice over an Aboriginal death in custody.
Biggest problem facing Scullion as shadow indigenous affairs? His boss
New shadow Indigenous Affairs minister Nigel Scullion has a genuine opportunity to make meaningful progress for the nation’s most disadvantaged citizens. Let’s hope he doesn’t succumb to his poll dancing past.
Aboriginal Australia: like the poorest of Africa, says Amnesty chief
The Secretary General of Amnesty International has likened conditions in Central Australia to the poorest parts of Africa and Asia, and described the gap between rich and poor in this country as the most stark she’s even seen.
John Howard transforming NRL: there goes the black fan base
Rugby league has been a dying game for many, many years — is John Howard really the man to revamp it? It makes even less sense when you consider a large percentage of the hard-core league fan-base is black.
"White Power" T-shirt seller charged
The man exposed in Crikey last week for selling ‘White Power Alice Springs’ T-shirts has been charged with offensive behaviour and making a false statement.
‘White power’ t-shirts for sale in Alice Springs
As Alice Springs grapples with the alleged bashing death of an Aboriginal man by five young white men, one man has begun selling “Alice Springs White Power” t-shirts and caps. Outside the Council offices…
Racist, not working: UN bashes NT intervention
Make no mistake, the United Nations’ criticism of Australia’s Northern Territory intervention was a flogging of colonial proportions.
Jenny Macklin’s special brand of consultation
Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin has discovered an interesting kind of consultation involving fences, writes Chris Graham.
Time to start making sense, Galarrwuy
Aboriginal leader Galarrwuy Yunupingu has dumped a bucket on the NT intervention — a policy that only two years ago had his support Chris Graham is confused.
Alice camps injunction is down to Macklin
The Federal Court has delayed acquisition of Alice Springs town camps. Minister for Indigenous Affairs Jenny Macklin should have seen this coming.
Up to their ankles in sewage, a remote community’s patience runs out
The NT community of Ampilatwatja is overrun with raw sewage, and with complete inaction from the government, the residents have finally cracked.
Anderson quits, NT government on the brink
The ALP may have lost the numbers in the NT parliament, after Minister for Indigenous Policy, Alison Anderson, walked out on her cabinet post this afternoon.
Macklin’s town camp takeover derailed by big guns
Within 24 hours of Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin’s announcement, the town camp takeover had well and truly derailed.
There’s no Alice town camps deal, not now and not likely
The truth is, the battle for the Alice Springs town camps is just beginning, despite Minister for Indigenous Affairs Jenny Macklin’s latest deal.
Racism is a blanket in Alice Springs
Alice Springs town council is proposing a range of new powers; all pointed to one end: tackling anti-social behaviour. Except, it includes throwing out blankets used by homeless people…
Macklin botches Alice Springs town camp compulsory acquisition
Jenny Macklin has botched the compulsory acquisition of the Alice Springs town camps for the second time in as many months, and now faces the prospect of having to cut a deal with Tangentyere Council.
Feds build 1000th home in three months… in Rudd’s electorate
Stimulus package housing is one thing, intervention housing quite another, writes Chris Graham.
Climbing Uluru is like clambering up the War Memorial
I’d like to climb up the side of the Australian War Memorial because I suspect the view over Lake Burley Griffin is sensational.
Macklin advised not to consult Aboriginals over town camps
Jenny Macklin was advised by her department against formally consulting with Aboriginal people over the compulsory acquisition of their land, reports Chris Graham.
We jail black men five times more than apartheid South Africa
In the Northern Territory, 83 per cent of the prison population is Indigenous, while Western Australia jails black males at more than eight times the rate of South Africa during Apartheid.
Palm Island inquest reopens
With a new look at the death of Mulrunji Doomadgee, the stage is set for yet another gut-wrenching chapter in a tragedy that has churned on for almost five years.
Marion Scrymgour just changed black politics forever
In politics, it seems, you can justify almost anything; being an Aboriginal member of the Labor or Liberal Party is no longer one of them, given Marion Scrymgour’s recent exit from the Labor Party in NT.
Indigenous affairs money scattered but plentiful
In percentage terms, it’s still better than just about any other government has done before.
Memo to Bolt: race runs deeper than skin colour
Any attention is good attention, right? There’s no other rational way to explain Andrew Bolt’s column in the Herald Sun yesterday.
