One of the major reasons Western Australia’s prison population is at a record high is because the State is jailing poverty stricken fine defaulters. The State’s Corrective Service Minister, Joe ...

Lateral violence is displaced anger misdirected at one’s peers, supporters, friends, to advocates though in their behalf. In general, though there should be no place for any form of violence, the ...

It is nothing new for Australia to be locking up children in police cells or adult prisons. Once again, recently, an 11 year-old-girl spent a weekend at Karratha’s police station. This follows a 12 ...

Take a close look at this list of events that are occurring at a Christmas event this year. Delightfully commercial but certainly everything that you would see at a Christmas event, isn’t it? So where ...

Gerry Georgatos writes we should examine the oppressor, not the oppressed, otherwise all hope is lost. Oppression is not a phenomena of modernity but a deliberation through the human ages. We are born ...

Yesterday, ten years ago Mulrunji Doomadgee was bashed to death in a Palm Island police cell. His death is one of many deaths in custody which occurred in either murderous or in the least – dubious ...

It was Edmund Burke who is credited with the saying: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”. He was also reported to have said: “The greater the power, the ...

WA’s South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council (SWALSC) faced off with its most ardent critic over its negotiations and support of the State Government’s $1.3 billion Native Title package offer to ...

The Mirning peoples who lived the regions of the Great Australian Bight for tens of thousands of years, their spirit and their descendants will stand in the way of the oil giants. While the oil giants ...

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 ...

When activists like me return from visiting the Afghan Peace Volunteers in Kabul, Afghanistan, young seamstresses there often entrust each of us with about fifty sky-blue scarves. The word “Borderfree ...

The Kimberley is enjoyed by tourists and by most of its local population but for a significant number of the total population it is a place of extreme poverty and disadvantage. Nearly seven per cent ...