Because of the amount of discussion and public debate focusing on Aboriginal Culture being responsible for child and sexual abuse I wanted to write this week on non-Indigenous “White” Australian ...

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.

Once again, do we have to wait for a United Nations Commissioner to shine the light on inequalities so as to bring Australia’s media, institutions and the majority of Australians up to speed on the ...

And there are a host of others of a similar nature. Every one of these cases has involved the denial of a permanent residency (bar the Carias case which involved a tourist visa!) because one member of ...

The life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and the rest of the population remains two decades wide. Despite the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reporting that the ...

As humanity stands at the brink of technological singularity, the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents the most consequential force in the history of our species. It offers not merely the ...

Academics, bureaucrats and policy makers, far too many of them, are a defining part of the problems and worse are who get in the way of what needs to be understood and done to address the wrongs that ...

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 ...

Lateral violence is displaced anger misdirected at one’s peers, supporters, friends, to advocates though in their behalf. In general, though there should be no place for any form of violence, the ...

There are 180,000 Australian families on the public housing lists. The majority will never be housed. A significant proportion will lose family members to the street present homelessness, to juvenile ...

A good friend once asked me, “You can probably say hello in French, German and Spanish, but can you say it in an Australian language?”. Language is something we use every day without really thinking ...

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 ...