The Western Australian Auditor-General has criticised the implementation of suicide prevention policies by the Government as the State’s suicide rate spirals. WA has the highest suicide rate in the ...

The conviction of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt is unprecedented. Never has a previous head of state been convicted of genocide or crimes against humanity in his own country. Members of ...

The High Court of Australia will for the first time in decades consider whether Aboriginality is relevant when deliberating sentencing. This morning the full bench of the High Court heard an ...

Muckaty Station is a small township in the remote Northern Territory, 110km north of Tennant Creek and roughly 800km south of Darwin. Also known as Marlwanpa, the land is held under Native Title ...

There is more disseminated today than ever before about suicide. However understanding suicide prevention is still a journey to be had for the majority of Australians. The most important understanding ...

In 2013, 19 per cent of Australians surveyed said they had experienced discrimination because of their skin colour or background. Around one in five Australians say they have experienced race-hate ...

Another recommendation from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADC) has gone by the wayside. Funding has been cut from a 24-hour legal advice phone line service that ensures ...

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 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 ...

“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 ...

Many is the time that I have been asked the question “Are Australians racist? I have consistently taken the view that I would much rather not call individuals racist because all that that does is get ...

Two and half years ago Noongar Kevin Spratt’s tragic maltreatment at the hands of police officers made headlines around the world. CCTV footage caught out police officers who indiscriminately tasered ...