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 ...

“We need a balance. We need our old people to come and talk to them in regards to culture. To survive, there has to be balance,” said Derby Elder, Lorna Hudson. “All of our mob has been pulled into ...

Thousands, tens of thousands of children are forgotten by far too many, by our governments, in this nation, in the world’s 12th largest economy – one of the world’s wealthiest nations. In general, ...

“We need a balance. We need our old people to come and talk to them in regards to culture. To survive, there has to be balance,” said Derby Elder, Lorna Hudson. “All of our mob has been pulled into ...

The New South Wales Aboriginal Legal Services has stated that Government funding has not been renewed for the 24-hour legal advice and RU OK phone line which has prevented Aboriginal deaths in police ...

The Northern Territory prison system, challenged only by Western Australia’s, is in disarray, with a tragic record in deaths in custody according to the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC).

We know how much you like reading the news on The Stringer website. If you’d like to help us continue to shine a massive great big flood lamp on the political injustices of this country and, indeed, ...

The numbers of children removed from their families has soared during the last decade and a half since the Bringing Them Home Report (1997). In Western Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

In recent years Australians have been learning that suicide is a leading cause of death and they have been discovering the hidden toll of suicide and of its impacts on those left behind. However what ...

I believe myself to have been an informed and engaged voter over several federal election cycles. As Election 2016 looms, I remain in the grip of despair about yet another two horse race between the ...

Over the last two weeks there is an announcement that appears to have slipped under the radar of most advocates in the areas that The Stringer is involved with. This is the announcement that Ms Yvonne ...

For a time it was argued that the Australian suicide toll was decreasing but this argument is at an end. In recent years tragically the suicide toll has significantly increased. In 2014, the ...