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 ...

Thank you, Mr President. I acknowledge the traditional owners, the Ngambri and the Ngunnawal people on whose country we meet today. I pay my respects to my elders, past and present. and to our future ...

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 ...

The Western Australian Government has a bent for demolishing the communities and homes of First Peoples, and then sitting idly by, not too fussed about many of them who become homeless. In the ...

Mia Pepper works with the Conservation Council of Western Australia as the nuclear free campaigner and is a board member of the Mineral Policy Institute. Mia studied at RMIT university in Melbourne in ...

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 ...

Australia has a long institutional history of the use of internment camps and detention centres. And these systems of internment have always been arbitrary and subject to the vagaries of Governments ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...