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 ...
Scientific evidence refuting the theory of modern humanity’s African genesis is common knowledge among those familiar with the most recent scientific papers on the human Genome, Mitochondrial DNA and ...
When you tell me ‘you don’t look Aboriginal’, you are denying that I am Aboriginal. To deny that I am Aboriginal is to deny that my grandmother was taken by welfare because she was Aboriginal, by the ...
At what point will the Immigration department address the issues raised last night by the Four Corners Programme? The issue that has been raised relates to Immigration fraud and the story can be read ...
It has been revealed today, thanks to Edward Snowden, that Google and other US tech companies received millions of dollars from the NSA for their compliance with the PRISM mass surveillance system. So ...
The Mirning peoples who lived the regions of the Great Australian Bight for tens of thousands of years, their spirit and their descendants will stand in the way of the oil giants. While the oil giants ...
Before everyone else jumped on the bandwagon, a couple of years ago I first revealed the lie of $25 billion spent on Indigenous disadvantage, now touted at $30 billion. Mainstream media continued to ...
More than 300 Noongar people gathered at a Perth park last Saturday to speak out against the South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council’s (SWALSC) support for the Western Australian Government $1.3 ...
The Kimberley is enjoyed by tourists and by most of its local population but for a significant number of the total population it is a place of extreme poverty and disadvantage. Nearly seven per cent ...
Dr Meg Perkins was born in colonial Africa, studied sociology and psychology in South Africa, and has worked with people involved in the Australian criminal justice system since 1991. Her PhD studies ...
Western Australia’s prison population is a stark contrast to the rest of the nation, jailing First Peoples at the nation’s highest rate. 82 per cent of the juvenile detention population are comprised ...
The coronial inquest into the death of Ms Dhu has degenerated into a farce. We do not need coronial findings to let us know whether racism and classism led to Ms Dhu’s death. This is as clear as the ...