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, ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

I was one of the very fortunate few to attend the event “An evening with Cornel West” in Perth recently. The event was billed as follows: “Dr Cornel West has been recognised, rightly, as one of the ...

The song Kingdom of Gold appears on Mark Knopfler’s seventh solo album, the double CD set titled Privateering (released in 2012). Knopfler’s song is in the great tradition of a Celtic ballad; the ...

It’s the weekend and I am at Nudgee College to watch my son, Ngiyaani play his first game of Rugby Union for the school. He is there on both an equity and rugby scholarship after making the Brisbane ...

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 West Australian newspaper this morning greeted us with this headline –“Racist Slurs spark kids’ Footy brawl”. Details are here: It got me thinking again about how far we have come in our ...

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 ...