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 ...

Suicide is on the increase – the last annual national toll increased by 300 suicides. A significant proportion of the increase was made up of migrants. Nearly 3,000 Australians took their lives in ...

Indigenous women are currently the most over-represented population in both Queensland and Australian prisons. In 2010 approximately 30% of all incarcerated women in Australia were Indigenous, while ...

A snapshot of Australian history in the 18 th, 19 th and 20 th centuries. Massacres of Aboriginal peoples were often not recorded. In 1790, Governor Arthur Phillip issued an order for a delegation “of ...

There is an under-reporting of poverty and homelessness. The horrendous lie of our generation is the one that poverty is being reduced right around the world. In fact it is increasing but there are ...

The Commonwealth Government through the National Suicide Prevention Program has agreed to extend funding for one more year to 49 suicide prevention programs. The suicide crises, particularly for First ...

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 ...

Badimia Aboriginal artist Julie Dowling’s painting of Wong-goo-tt-oo Elder Wilfred Hicks was the only Western Australian Aboriginal finalist in the 2013 Archibald Prize, with the winner announced at ...

Once again the United Nations has ranked Australia second behind Norway in its annual Human Development Index – for public health, social wealth, education, even happiness. But if Aboriginal peoples ...

“The Government killed my son,” said Njikena Elder Lucy Marshall. She said, “The truth must be told.” Her son, Cyril Hunter, died in 1983 from exposure to Agent Orange, the toxic chemical used en ...

Gerry Georgatos – In 2014, I disaggregated to the Kimberley’s First Nations peoples, the nation’s highest suicide rate, one of the world’s highest, at over 70 suicides per 100,000 population (First ...

Australia’s governments must end health discrimination in its prisons. An incarcerated child must not be a second-class citizen. Nor any adult. We must ask, why are our governments dishing the ...