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 ...

Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett said that he would consider the proposition of subsidising the wages of former prisoners if it meant that it would reduce the likelihood of them re-offending.

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Conference – Black led, Black owned It is an abomination – moral, political and otherwise – when one in three deaths of Aboriginal and ...

Indigenous women are currently the most over-represented population in both Queensland and Australian prisons. In 2010 approximately 30% of all incarcerated women in Australia were Indigenous, while ...

When I first started doing work on radio here in Perth in the late 1990’s, the on air host took me aside and said “We are going to have to change your name because people in Australia will never be ...

The WA Police Union jumped to the defence of the police officers and said they would support the officers. It is expected that the legal costs would be met by the Police Union. WA Police Commissioner ...

I believe it is time to think indigenous even at the price of rejection. To disagree with mainstream expectations is to wake up, to understand what is happening, to be of service to a larger whole.

Below I am reproducing some of the commentary from a couple of social media sites relating to this matter. The second part of this is from the 9News Perth Facebook page. I have to say that I am ...

When you tell me ‘you don’t look Aboriginal’, you are denying that I am Aboriginal. To deny that I am Aboriginal is to deny that my grandmother was taken by welfare because she was Aboriginal, by the ...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander life expectancy has not improved to a 10.6 years gap – still dying more than 20 years less The life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders ...

Badimia Aboriginal artist Julie Dowling’s painting of Wong-goo-tt-oo Elder Wilfred Hicks was the only Western Australian Aboriginal finalist in the 2013 Archibald Prize, with the winner announced at ...

It is true that this occurred. Agent Orange (a herbicide) was still being used in Australia as late as the 1980s. In 2003 the Geoff Gallop Government accepted responsibility for its use in the ...