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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 ...

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 ...

The scene is the Provincial Hotel, a Melbourne pub in dinky Fitzroy. It was in Fitzroy that the WikiLeaks Party of Australia was officially launched, fittingly from a place filled with books. (A party ...

I have written often about the discrimination accorded to people with disabilities and health conditions in our Migration system. In addition to the prohibition in the Act in relation to these ...

“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things” Tom Waits. For me there is no more powerful Tom Waits song than Georgia Lee, a song from his 1999 CD Mule Variations, which is arguably his ...

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 ...

#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 ...

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 ...

Custodians of Burrup Coutnry, of the Yaburara peoples who few of remain after being nearly wiped out more than a century and a half ago, will fight the proposed marina development of the pristine ...

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 ...