Last week we revealed the lie of $25 billion spent on Indigenous disadvantage, and several weeks ago we revealed that almost 1000 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders died from suicide throughout ...
Western Australia and the Northern Territory are home to the majority of remote communities and camps. Many of these towns and camps were conceived by Australia’s historic and not-too-long-ago ...
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In my sojourn as a locum psychiatrist in rural and remote Australia, I was astonished at the rate of diagnosis of schizophrenia in indigenous populations. That condition is characterised by, “abnormal ...
Jimmy Patrick Taylor was a 12 year old Aboriginal boy who went missing on August 29, 1974. Instead of an all out police search for Jimmy, the first assumption was the racist bullshit “he had gone ...
On a recent Friday at the Afghan Peace Volunteers‘ (APV) Borderfree Center, here in Kabul, thirty mothers sat cross-legged along the walls of a large meeting room. Masoumah, who co-coordinates the ...
When activists like me return from visiting the Afghan Peace Volunteers in Kabul, Afghanistan, young seamstresses there often entrust each of us with about fifty sky-blue scarves. The word “Borderfree ...
Greece did not make the crises it finds itself within; the crises were borne of paradigms outside Greece’s mythical sovereign borders. That the crises, the widespread impoverishment and its pernicious ...
There is much contention as to whether the Australian context is home to narratives of victimhood. Many social commentators, borne of privilege, argue that the narrative of victimhood is inauthentic ...
Imprisonment rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are not just a national shame but an international disgrace for a nation that is the world’s second wealthiest nation per capita.
The young woman does it tough, needs support but got stitched with more than $1000 in fines. Where’s the so-called diversionary alternatives instead of being dragged to Court? Where’s the psychosocial ...