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 ...

Over the last three years, in my capacity as President of the National Ethnic Disability Alliance I have almost become inured to anger when I come across another instance of discrimination against ...

There are two images here. The one on the left is one that we have seen again and again in recent months as ISIS/ISIL has wrought their reign of terror in the Middle ...

Western Australia and the Northern Territory have the worst poverty and homelessness figures for First Peoples but WA and the NT are not only Australia’s wealthiest jurisdictions, they are among the ...

The poet and political activist John Cornford was just 21 years old when he died in Spain in August 1936. Cornford was one of the first British volunteers to join and die in the International Brigades ...

Three well known leaders of the First People’s rights struggle, Tauto Sansbury, Geoff Clark and Michael Mansell have come together to call for a National Summit of Traditional Owners. They have ...

She locked him in a cage, in the corner, because he wouldn’t do what she wanted him to do. He tied her to the bed so that she wouldn’t leave the room. Every night, for two years. They built a wooden ...

On Thursday 23 rd January I was a guest of Robert and Selina Eggington of the Dumbartung Corporation at a preview screening of the film “ Utopia ” by John Pilger. My thanks go to them and others at ...

On Friday October 4 th we woke to this screaming headline from the Fairfax press. “Pregnant asylum seekers to give birth on Nauru” The article by Heath Aston confirmed our worst fears and misgivings ...

On August 4, a 22-year-old Yamatji woman died in a Western Australian police watch house. It is likely that she did not have to die, certainly not in a watch house. The victim of a domestic violence ...

The first time I met the man, I was at an event at St George’s Cathedral in Perth. He slapped me on the back and made some humorous remark about my atheism and the irony of my attendance at a church.