Al Jazeera’s 101 East – As the Black Lives Matter movement spreads across the globe, we investigate Australia’s Indigenous incarceration crisis. Across Australia, Indigenous people are ...

From 2008 to 2012, and even thereafter, Indonesian children were jailed in Australian adult prisons. They were cooks and deckhands on boats providing passage to asylum seeks who had languished in ...

In a recent article in The Sunday Times the Australian Liberty Alliance announced with some considerable fanfare that Dr Marion Hercock was to be their new senate candidate. Dr Hercock is an academic ...

Poppy recently completed an Honours degree in sociology at the University of Sydney. Her research focused on the representation of asylum seekers in Australian media, an area in which she has a ...

Joseph was a member of the Advisory Council of Australia’s Special Broadcasting Services, is adjunct associate professor for clinical research methods and prehospital care at Queensland University of ...

Samantha Connor is a disability advocate from Western Australia. She has lived experience of disability and is a wheelchair user. Samantha is a board member at People with Disability Australia, the WA ...

It’s not uncommon for people to ask me what term I prefer to use when describing my background from my father’s side of the family. In most instances, my answer is plainly and simply “Black”. In the ...

The more west we journey across the nation the higher the arrest rates, the higher the jailing rates. In the last two decades Australia’s prison population has doubled. The national prison population ...

Dr Alice Clark is the Executive Director of Shelter SA, the peak body for housing in South Australia. Alice has an extensive background in housing, the community sector, research and policy analysis ...

Syed Fakhar KaKaKhel is a well known journalist, producer, trainer and researcher based in Peshawar, Pakistan. He has more than a decade long history of covering conflict in the Af-Pak region. Armed ...

Each suicide is not only a personal tragedy but dramatically affects the lives of families. With one person reportedly suiciding every 40 seconds around our world, suicide has become a public health ...

Australia is facing homelessness and poverty levels the likes it has never known and nor is prepared to admit. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) there are 110,000 homeless ...