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 ...

We know how much you like reading the news on The Stringer website. If you’d like to help us continue to shine a massive great big flood lamp on the political injustices of this country and, indeed, ...

Next Friday, Perth will host a national forum to discuss the ways forward from this crisis of removals of children who many believe is a second Stolen Generation, or that the Stolen Generations never ...

Over the last two weeks there is an announcement that appears to have slipped under the radar of most advocates in the areas that The Stringer is involved with. This is the announcement that Ms Yvonne ...

With all we know and have been taught, how is it possible that idiots in the crowd think it is acceptable to vilify Aboriginal players like Adam Goodes and Melbourne’s Neville Jetta? Thankfully, the ...

There are many warm stories of fundraising but I would like to pay respect to one relentless individual who has fundraised for Wheelchairs for Kids – Shaoquett Moselmane. There are not many ...

The song Kingdom of Gold appears on Mark Knopfler’s seventh solo album, the double CD set titled Privateering (released in 2012). Knopfler’s song is in the great tradition of a Celtic ballad; the ...