It’s the weekend and I am at Nudgee College to watch my son, Ngiyaani play his first game of Rugby Union for the school. He is there on both an equity and rugby scholarship after making the Brisbane ...

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The Native Title Act, watered down by Paul Keating and then butchered by John Howard, is in for another bashing under a Coalition Government. Earlier this year the Coalition’s Tony Abbott told The ...

As we celebrate the courage and the achievements of Eddie Koiki Mabo we all walk in his determined footsteps in our hope for a brighter future. The Mabo family asked me to paint you a picture of how ...

Lo and behold, there is once again a steep rise in the jailing of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders, and one analysis or report after another. Governments are trying to figure out how to ...

At the invitation of the Mabo family I am attending the quarter century commemoration of June 3, 1992 High Court win that Eddie Mabo did not live long enough to see. I find myself in Townsville where ...

Suicide among Aboriginal peoples is disproportionately higher when compared to non-Aboriginal peoples. Western Australia and the Northern Territory have the most horrific suicide rates. Recently, ...

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 ...

On April 15, 2014, when the story broke on the world that the Central Intelligence Agency’s covert program of assassination by remotely controlled drones is not distinct from the drone program of the ...

Racism is substantively part and parcel of the Australian public domain and it is not limited to so-called inadvertent ‘jibes’ and ‘gaffes’ by 13 year olds and by football club presidents. My ...

The song “The Talking Leaves” appears on Johnny Cash’s twentieth album Bitter Tears: Ballads of American Indians, recorded in 1964. Bitter Tears is one of Cash’s most obscure and overlooked albums, ...

We, as a nation, have always prided ourselves on the quality, accessibility and affordability of our health system. Particularly when we make comparisons to the cost of the system in places such as ...