As Blackfella’s we learn to read signs in the landscape when the Burruguu-ngayi-li (Dreaming…) directly impacts with the physical world. There are devastating consequences when we forget who we are as ...

There are many people out there who send me emails and Facebook posts accusing me of “social engineering”, “political correctness” and all variety of society destroying activities as I have attempted ...

What a number of sources in both the government and resource sectors have been saying is gaining traction – that Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett intends to still go ahead with the compulsory ...

Al Jazeera’s 101 East – As the Black Lives Matter movement spreads across the globe, we investigate Australia’s Indigenous incarceration crisis. Across Australia, Indigenous people are ...

John Pilger is one of the world’s most prominent journalists, an author, a filmmaker with a litany of documentaries and someone whose fortitude has made a difference to the public record and the ...

It has been well recognised that Indigenous communities are over policed, and the impact of this on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women was highlighted by the 2001 report by the Aboriginal ...

Many reckon they understand the accumulation of life stresses hurting those who live below or in close proximity to the poverty line. Poverty and suicide intersect. Poverty and incarceration intersect ...

A recent article published by The Australian regarding the misappropriation of substantial government funding on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands is only the tip of the iceberg in ...

Like Ruth McCambridge, I have long been a critic of those who claim that nonprofits should be more business-like and operate like business to remodel themselves along business and market lines. It is ...

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Thus spoke Juliet in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. But what did she mean and what does this say about the ...

Australia was founded on bloodshed, and its historical identity and its origins-of-thinking include slavery (blackbirding), social engineering, apartheid, racism. To deny all of this is to keep ...

Western Australia’s Governor, Malcolm McCusker, in what was a surprising gaffe or an act of ignorance from him – but an insult to Aboriginal peoples – claimed in a speech to a joint sitting of ...