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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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 ...
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 ...
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.
It has been touted that $25.4 billion annually is invested in Aboriginal peoples – in order to raise those among them out of abject poverty –“through 86 initiatives”. This claim has dangerously washed ...
Thirteen years have passed since the sinking of the asylum seeker vessel designated Siev X, in which three hundred and fifty-three people, including 146 children, 142 women and 65 men drowned when the ...
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 ...
Several weeks ago I identified that there have been 996 reported Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicides between 2001 and 2010; from a racialised vantage this statistic is one of the world’s ...
The Prime Minister’s Indigenous Advisory Council headed by Warren Mundine has committed to including suicide prevention as part of its mandate – after Mr Mundine read our coverage on the extent of ...
Three children together attempted to end their lives. Such was the despair they felt from a sense of hopelessness in an Australian community where no one completes school. Three children, aged six, ...