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 ...

When the British captured Jamaica in 1655, the Spanish colonists fled, leaving a large number of African slaves. Rather than be re-enslaved by the British, the slaves escaped into the hilly, ...

Thousands, tens of thousands of children are forgotten by far too many, by our governments, in this nation, in the world’s 12 th largest economy – one of the world’s wealthiest nations. In general, ...

More than 50 leading researchers, academics, government and coalface community workers attended, yesterday and today, an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health and Suicide Prevention ...

I am not talking about beat up media polling of the acceptability or popularity of a policy change that the government has already implemented, to engender lively debate on the print, TV and web media ...

Suresh Rajan in defence of Father Chris Bedding The first time I met the man, I was at an event at St George’s Cathedral in Perth. He slapped me on the back and made some humorous remark about my ...

Medicare, the PBS and the NDIS denied to the incarcerated but a stroke of the pen can fix In a just society human rights must remain inalienably universal but for 40,000 Australians this is not so, ...

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 ...

Transform Australia’s prisons The more west we journey across the nation the higher the arrest rates, the higher the jailing rates. In the last two decades Australia’s prison population has doubled.

Suresh Rajan and Marion Hercock polarised on ‘Islamisation’ In a recent article in The Sunday Times the Australian Liberty Alliance announced with some considerable fanfare that Dr Marion Hercock was ...

No time to ponder, argue or to judge – time for suicide prevention Gerry Georgatos – By year’s end, harrowingly, Australia will record the highest ever suicide toll, in excess of 3,200 Australian ...