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 ...

The National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples has issued an open letter to the Prime Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Tony Abbott seeking commitment to 10 key actions and principles that would ...

Homelessness can be ended but the will to do so is not a universal one. In the world’s 12 th biggest economy, Australia, the number of older women who are homeless has doubled in the past four years.

Suicides are less likely in small remote communities and instead are more likely in larger remote and regional towns. Western Australia’s Premier linked ‘high suicide rates’ in remote communities to ...

Without informing, let alone consulting, the House of Representatives the inner circle of Prime Minister Tony Abbott has shifted what little support the previous Government, especially under Kevin ...

Five minutes off the plane at Alice Springs last month and an Aboriginal woman puts her daughter into my arms. At two years old, Thelma has gunk in her ears and oozing from her nose. Flies crawl on ...

From Kabul, by Ken Hannaford-Ricardi The number of visitors passing through the Afghan Peace Volunteers’ (APVs’) Borderfree Nonviolence Community Center in Kabul is incredible. Each afternoon, nearly ...

“How we treat other people changes them, but even more so, how we treat other people changes us”. – Bryant McGill I have previously described the Department of Immigration and Border Protection in ...

Western Desert Martu filmmaker Curtis Taylor is developing a digital archive for language groups of Western Australia for all people to access and learn about their own history and for others to learn ...

The rates of removals of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander children during the last decade have gone beyond the alarming. During those years, despite the unheard outcries from less than 3 per ...

She entered the Northbridge tunnel in her little 4 Cylinder car. She adjusted her Hijab on her head and commenced her drive of the 1.6 kilometres to get to West Perth. She was in the left lane. Out of ...

“Please return our son because my wife cannot go on without him, she will suicide, please return our son,” wrote a Noongar father and husband to the Western Australian Government’s Chief Protector in ...