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As Blackfella’s we learn to read signs in the landscape when the Burruguu-ngayi-li (Dreaming…) directly impacts with the physical world. There are devastating consequences when we forget who we are as ...
There are many people out there who send me emails and Facebook posts accusing me of “social engineering”, “political correctness” and all variety of society destroying activities as I have attempted ...
What a number of sources in both the government and resource sectors have been saying is gaining traction – that Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett intends to still go ahead with the compulsory ...
Parents of the Aboriginal children locked up in an adult prison were both broken-hearted and outraged by the finding of Western Australia’s Chief Justice Wayne Martin that it was not illegal for the ...
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Thus spoke Juliet in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. But what did she mean and what does this say about the ...
Australia was founded on bloodshed, and its historical identity and its origins-of-thinking include slavery (blackbirding), social engineering, apartheid, racism. To deny all of this is to keep ...
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 ...
Western Australia’s Governor, Malcolm McCusker, in what was a surprising gaffe or an act of ignorance from him – but an insult to Aboriginal peoples – claimed in a speech to a joint sitting of ...
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Nearly 90 per cent of the Australian prison population did not complete a secondary education, with nearly 40 per cent not getting past Year 9. Noongar man, Mervyn Eades knows the inside of prisons ...
John Pilger is one of the world’s most prominent journalists, an author, a filmmaker with a litany of documentaries and someone whose fortitude has made a difference to the public record and the ...
Like Ruth McCambridge, I have long been a critic of those who claim that nonprofits should be more business-like and operate like business to remodel themselves along business and market lines. It is ...