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Al Jazeera’s 101 East – As the Black Lives Matter movement spreads across the globe, we investigate Australia’s Indigenous incarceration crisis. Across Australia, Indigenous people are ...
31 years ago, an off-duty inebriated police officer, drunk not only with alcohol but with racism, killed 16-year-old Yindjibarndi John Pat. Tomorrow will be 31 years ago to the day when Western ...
In 2004 I was significantly involved with Premier Geoff Gallop in attempting to get changes to the racial vilification provisions of the WA Criminal Code through Parliament. I spent a fair degree of ...
on the therapeutic chair, pleading: Carol Tarlen writes poems that are both political and human. She writes about the struggles of living a precarious life- little money, rented houses, unable to pay ...
Gerry Georgatos – Horrendous lies, moral abominations, unprincipled politics, reprehensible grim makings have culminated in a child aged less than 15 dying every five seconds. Horrendous lies include ...
There are many faces to homelessness. A 51-year-old woman walked into my Perth office. She has lived thirteen consecutive years street-homeless. Not long ago, she spent eighteen months sleeping her ...
The poet Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) is regarded as one of the greatest Russian poets. Akhmatova lived in two different kinds of Russia, pre-revolutionary Russia and the post revolutionary Soviet Union ...
Al Jazeera’s 101 East – As the Black Lives Matter movement spreads across the globe, we investigate Australia’s Indigenous incarceration crisis. Across Australia, Indigenous people are ...
Nearly one million people the world over die by suicide each year according to the World Health Organisation. The World Health Organisation stated that in 2012 there were 803,000 reported suicides.
The pristine Kimberley’s tourist mecca Broome is a sorry tale of ‘two cities’ – one of rampant affluence against one of incongruous grinding poverty. And it is racialised – shanty towns filled with ...
On 28 September 1983 a young life came to an end that sent a community into tears before it became rage and outrage dulled into anguish and sorrow by the passing of time and a litany of broken lives.