The Uluru Statement proposed a constitutionally embedded, national Indigenous body (“the voice”) that would advise parliament on matters relating to Indigenous peoples.

In 2010, Canada endorsed the declaration as “aspirational” without beginning a process for its practical implementation.

Approximately 5,000 indigenous Tzotzil Mayans have been scattered in small refugee camps in the area surrounding the town of Chalchihuitán, in Mexico’s southernmost state of Chiapas. They say they were chased out of their homes by unknown gunmen after the escalation of an old land dispute.

Christmas is a wonderful and joyful mystery and we humans can never, ever really understand it.

Just before Christmas, the announcement came that religious output on the BBC is to increase, not vanish, in 2018.

As a younger man Law was hailed for his courageous positions on desegregation and civil rights, but his legacy is marred by the sexual abuse crisis.