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 ...

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 ...

Homelessness can be ended but the will to do so is not a universal one. In the world’s 12 th biggest economy, Australia, the number of older women who are homeless has doubled in the past four years.

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Western Australia and the Northern Territory are home to the majority of remote communities and camps. Many of these towns and camps were conceived by Australia’s historic and not-too-long-ago ...

There has been quite some sustained coverage of an ‘Ice’ drugs crisis in particularly remote Aboriginal communities. Yes, the drug “Ice’ is pedaled in some towns and communities, but not any more so ...

Reading this Wall Street Journal story, you’d never know there’s any downside to a government selling off public services to private companies. Australia and New Zealand are selling off utilities and ...

The CEO of the Aboriginal Legal Services Western Australia, Noongar man, Dennis Eggington has called the call to close the communities of First Peoples an outrage. He warned “it will be catastrophic” ...

Jurists from the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) have been barred by Sri Lankan authorities from entering the island country just ahead of the commencement of ...