It has been more than six months since a 22 year old Yamatji woman died in horrific circumstances in a Western Australian jail cell. Her family is devastated State Government promises that answers and ...

Not enough can be written about Western Australia’s homelessness – it is a catastrophe, the worst in the nation and dramatically disproportionate for Aboriginal peoples. Forty per cent of Perth’s ...

The Federal Government is about to spend $1.5 billion subsidising a new motorway for Sydney that is destined to fail. Sydney’s traffic is already the most congested in the nation. But traffic experts ...

It is nothing new for Australia to be locking up children in police cells or adult prisons. Once again, recently, an 11 year-old-girl spent a weekend at Karratha’s police station. This follows a 12 ...

Warren Mundine is talking about “forgiving” as being as important as the Government’s apology in terms of the reconciliation process. I disagree wholeheartedly! Whilst the apology only went a small ...

In the past year, during the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood, when the darkness of fanatical Muslims beset Egypt, and when it seemed that the spirit of resistance was fading, and people were giving up, ...

Josephine Cashman is a lawyer and a businessperson and in October was appointed to the Prime Minister’s Indigenous Advisory Council. Here is Ms Cashman’s Australia Day speech: By Josephine Cashman ...

The Bureau of Prisons contacted me today, assigning me a prison number and a new address: for the next 90 days, beginning tomorrow, I’ll live at FMC Lexington, in the satellite prison camp for women, ...

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 ...

Do you remember the time your mother said to you, ‘I feel so much grief and anger that I had you instead of the child I really wanted’? No, neither do I. You can’t talk about love and grief in the ...

Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism. … A genuine ...

From January 4 – 12, 2015, Witness Against Torture (WAT) activists assembled in Washington D.C. for an annual time of fasting and public witness to end the United States’ use of torture and indefinite ...