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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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 ...

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 ...

Wongatha Wonganarra Elder, Pastor Geoffrey Stokes known for his relentless work among the homeless and among the most vulnerable, was arrested at a mine site near the Mount Margaret Aboriginal ...

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 ...

Koonibba born whale dreamer, medicine man, song man, musician and Mirning Elder, Bunna Rupert Lawrie has been driving a petition since last week to stop a Native Title meeting from proceeding this ...

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 ‘child protection’ monoliths right across the nation are vastly overfunded. It is not true that they are underfunded and overstretched. Child protection budgets should be radically reduced to ...

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 ...