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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

“Under the euphemism of fishing, in pursuit of seafood, we are exterminating animals from the oceans: wiping out the larger predators, altering food webs and destroying habitats at a staggering rate ...

#Enough! Fatima needs food and proper medical care, not war! Kabul—Some days ago, at the Afghan Peace Volunteers’ Borderfree Center, I met Jamila, the mother of a little girl, Fatima, who comes to the ...

The Aboriginal Legal Services WA (ALSWA), and a number of Aboriginal advocates, have slammed police and other services as harbouring rogue cultures and sub-cultures of racism, directly targeted to ...

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 ...

They are at it again, those eager policy makers keen to define what journalism actually is. To be a journalist, or not to be one, may well be the difference between punishment or protection under the ...

I am a firm believer in if you want to know the future you need to look at the past. My daughter says that this is the long version and if she wants a ‘quick’ versions she sees her father. However I ...