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 ...
How many more people must die? Whose child will be next? How many bodies do we have to climb over before there is any sense of urgency? According to the Chair of the Indigenous Advisory Council (IAC) ...
Gerry Georgatos – In 2014, I disaggregated to the Kimberley’s First Nations peoples, the nation’s highest suicide rate, one of the world’s highest, at over 70 suicides per 100,000 population (First ...
Australia is facing homelessness and poverty levels the likes it has never known and nor is prepared to admit. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) there are 110,000 homeless ...
In a recent article in The Sunday Times the Australian Liberty Alliance announced with some considerable fanfare that Dr Marion Hercock was to be their new senate candidate. Dr Hercock is an academic ...
Last Friday marked seven years since the Prime Ministerial Apology to the Stolen Generations – 1903 to 1970 – but child removals, the tearing apart and decimation of families, are today worse than ...
Each day, a suicide is brought to my attention. I have written widely on the suicide crises. I have written about the disproportionate rate of death by suicide for the descendants of the First Peoples ...
“The Government killed my son,” said Njikena Elder Lucy Marshall. She said, “The truth must be told.” Her son, Cyril Hunter, died in 1983 from exposure to Agent Orange, the toxic chemical used en ...
I stood there, in my underwear. They were pale blue, with small flowers on them. I remember it very clearly – mostly because there were four men in the room who I had never met before. They were ...
Joseph was a member of the Advisory Council of Australia’s Special Broadcasting Services, is adjunct associate professor for clinical research methods and prehospital care at Queensland University of ...
Mia Pepper works with the Conservation Council of Western Australia as the nuclear free campaigner and is a board member of the Mineral Policy Institute. Mia studied at RMIT university in Melbourne in ...
Dr Woolombi Waters is a Kamilaroi Aboriginal man with six children. His PhD “Contemporary Urban Indigenous ‘Dreamings’: interaction, engagement and creative practice,” documents surviving Kamilaroi ...