It is nothing new for Australia to be locking up children in police cells or adult prisons. Once again, recently, an 11 year-old-girl spent a weekend at Karratha’s police station. This follows a 12 ...

Yesterday, ten years ago Mulrunji Doomadgee was bashed to death in a Palm Island police cell. His death is one of many deaths in custody which occurred in either murderous or in the least – dubious ...

When you tell me ‘you don’t look Aboriginal’, you are denying that I am Aboriginal. To deny that I am Aboriginal is to deny that my grandmother was taken by welfare because she was Aboriginal, by the ...

Invasion Day protests speak of the sadness felt by Aboriginal people when Australians celebrate the date that the British laid claim to their land. For them this date also marks the beginning of ...

Last week I reunited a 14 year old girl with her biological mother. She had been removed from her mother at 12 months of age. Children removed from their biological parents are among the most elevated ...

It was Edmund Burke who is credited with the saying: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”. He was also reported to have said: “The greater the power, the ...

Pushing Aboriginal people off their land for mining interests is nothing new in Western Australia, but Premier Barnett’s plans to close 150 communities and gut the Aboriginal Heritage Act takes it to ...

A few years ago, the small Kimberley community of Mowanjum endured a spate of suicides. “All around this community (Mowanjum) there is so much progress, production, affluence. What is this progress, ...

The formidable Walmadany (James Price Point) campaigner, Senior Law Boss, Mr Roe has died. Mr Roe leaves behind his partner, his two children, his mother, a matriarch of her people, Teresa Roe and his ...

It has been revealed today, thanks to Edward Snowden, that Google and other US tech companies received millions of dollars from the NSA for their compliance with the PRISM mass surveillance system. So ...

Central Queensland University’s Bundaberg campus Indigenous WellBeing Centre’s Kabi Kabi Elder, Cheri Yavu-Kama-Harathunian was awarded by the Worldwide Who’s Who “Professional of the Year in ...

Dr Woolombi Waters is a Kamilaroi Aboriginal man with six children. His PhD “Contemporary Urban Indigenous ‘Dreamings’: interaction, engagement and creative practice,” documents surviving Kamilaroi ...