Life is a duel between perception and reality. Far too often when I listen to talk back radio I am incensed by what I hear. There are talkback announcers who happily create and perpetuate myths about ...

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 ...

More journalists are being killed each year of this century than were being killed on average per annum in the preceding century. The annual average in the last decade for journalists killed on the ...

“I wish she (Lange) hadn’t taken my picture. I can’t get a penny out out of it. She didn’t ask my name. She said she wouldn’t sell the pictures. She said she’d send me a copy. She never did.” How ...

Malala Yusufzai finally got her Nobel. But right here in her hometown Swat in specific and in Pakistan in general there is a mixed reaction towards her achievement. There are some who believe Malala ...

Refugee children’s advocacy group ChilOut, accompanied by two specialist medical doctors, have visited three Darwin’s detention centres and have come away with calls to end cruelty, neglect and the ...

Asylum Seeker children’s advocate ChilOut has condemned the Australian Government’s scrapping of the Independent Health Advisory Group (IHAG) who have had a long standing role overseeing health care ...

Schapelle Corby is innocent, and many within various Australian authorities do know this. No-one should be expendable, but it is clear that Ms Corby has been treated as if she is expendable. This is ...

The Greece born numbers in our West Australian population is surprisingly low. In 2011 there were only 2649 people in WA who were Greece born. Those identifying with Greek ancestry in WA were 13,822.

When we think of slavery we think of the African American struggle in the United States. We think of ancient civilisations that disenfranchised people and exploited them for their labour and treated ...

Generations of children are growing up without any parenting, set adrift by the impoverishment that led their parents to low level offending, by a shallow system bent on retribution. Many Aboriginal ...