Friday essay: we are the voice - why we need more Indigenous editors
Eddie Koiki Mabo and others made the High Court of Australia recognise in 1992 that terra nullius - nobody's land - was a fiction. It is taking us longer to kill off its lesser-known cousin, vox nullius. Vox can mean sound, word or voice; ideas of us - us being Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples - having no voice are part of an enduring colonial imaginary.