“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Realtors have been reported widely as tipping a property price rise in the South West where they reckon affordable prices have leveraged a buying frenzy. Perth property prices continue sky-high and ...

The University of Western Australia’s Student Guild has apologised after publishing racist slurs in its once a year Perth-wide fund raising satirical newspaper – Prosh. The annual university ...

The National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples (NCAFP) has been pushing for Justice Reinvestment to get its opportunity in the face of a rising prison population and rising incarceration rates for ...

Too often Australian political debates and tussles are scripted as a battle between the left and right of politics – when indeed there is no left and right dichotomy. The validity of any political ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gerry Georgatos – In 2014, I disaggregated to the Kimberley’s First Nations peoples, the nation’s highest suicide rate, one of the world’s highest, at over 70 suicides per 100,000 population (First ...

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 ...