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This week in a Perth court 11 Christian leaders were fined $50 each for trespass after they held a prayer vigil and sit-in at the office of the Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop as a protest ...
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 Australian Premier Colin Barnett said that he would consider the proposition of subsidising the wages of former prisoners if it meant that it would reduce the likelihood of them re-offending.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
It has been well recognised that Indigenous communities are over policed, and the impact of this on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women was highlighted by the 2001 report by the Aboriginal ...
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 ...
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 ...
is to wake up, to understand what is happening, to be of service to a larger whole.—Manu Aluli-Meyer (2013, p. 148) World views create worlds… what sets the modern (worldview) apart is its fundamental ...
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 ...
When you tell me ‘you don’t look Aboriginal’, you are denying that I am Aboriginal. To deny that I am Aboriginal is to deny that my grandmother was taken by welfare because she was Aboriginal, by the ...