The National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples has issued an open letter to the Prime Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Tony Abbott seeking commitment to 10 key actions and principles that would ...

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 ...

From Kabul, by Ken Hannaford-Ricardi The number of visitors passing through the Afghan Peace Volunteers’ (APVs’) Borderfree Nonviolence Community Center in Kabul is incredible. Each afternoon, nearly ...

Gerry Georgatos (The Stringer, 17 November 2017) argues that we should not allow ourselves to be overwhelmed and dominated by trauma, that we should get back on our feet, strengthened by our scars. He ...

My name is Tauto Sansbury. I was born on Point Pearce Mission in 1949. By the time you read this letter I will be 66 years old. By now I should be a fully initiated man speaking my native tongue, ...

Five minutes off the plane at Alice Springs last month and an Aboriginal woman puts her daughter into my arms. At two years old, Thelma has gunk in her ears and oozing from her nose. Flies crawl on ...

“Please return our son because my wife cannot go on without him, she will suicide, please return our son,” wrote a Noongar father and husband to the Western Australian Government’s Chief Protector in ...

Yesterday, a crowd of more than 500, the majority Yamatjis, surrounded the court house of the West Australian coastal town of Geraldton as emotions boiled over the hit and run death of two 40-year-old ...

The Western Australia Premier, Colin Barnett, has applauded that the South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council (SWALSC) is ready to take the Government’s $1.3 billion native title package to the ...

Suicides are less likely in small remote communities and instead are more likely in larger remote and regional towns. Western Australia’s Premier linked ‘high suicide rates’ in remote communities to ...

Well respected Western Australian Nyungah Land and Cuture worker Iva Hayward-Jackson believes it is high time that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures are redressed every dignity – by ...

Western Desert Martu filmmaker Curtis Taylor is developing a digital archive for language groups of Western Australia for all people to access and learn about their own history and for others to learn ...