Indigenous Australians: 'This is the torment of our powerlessness' 

20 Feb 2022 | As called for in the Uluru Statement from the Heart, a First Nations Voice enshrined in the ...  

Australians look in vain for independent foreign policy

28 Jan 2022 | One of the most disturbing features of contemporary politics is the almost complete absence of any ...  

Tudge flags freedom of speech while whitewashing Australia's past

25 Oct 2021 | Education Minister Alan Tudge continues to argue that an obscure version of our history – one ...  

IA Book Club: The Crime of Not Knowing Your Crime – Ric Throssell Against ASIO

3 Oct 2021 | Jim Kable reviews a book by Karen Throssell about the injustice suffered by her father in his ...  

Morrison's 'sub-par' performance tanks Australia's national identity

26 Sep 2021 | Morrison's tanking of the Australian-French submarine deal in favour of the AUKUS pact signals to ...  

Tudge sore over suggestion we question Anzac Day

19 Sep 2021 | Education Minister Alan Tudge should look closely at history before criticising expert's proposed ...  

Melbourne: It's a shame about the name

12 Sep 2021 | It’s a bit sad that our southern city bears the name of a drudge like William Lamb. Maybe it's ...  

IA Book Club: The Shortest History of War

5 Sep 2021 | Jim Kable reviews Gwynne Dyer's 'The Shortest History of War', which looks at the comparative role ...  

First Nations Voice to Parliament: It's time to rethink democracy

5 Sep 2021 | A new approach to democracy is needed to fight the Federal Government's failure to deliver First ...  

Turnbull wrong to reject Uluru Statement From the Heart

16 May 2021 | Successive Federal Governments have continued to get away with extinguishing Aboriginal land ...  

Lest we forget the real truth of Simpson and his donkey

23 Apr 2021 | On ANZAC Day, let’s remember Simpson as neither sinner nor saint, but a man who took the same ...  

Death by design: Systemic racism and police brutality in the U.S. and Australia

20 Apr 2021 | Black deaths in Australia and the United States follow a similar historical pattern of racist ...  

The Apology was the start, not the end, of the reconciliation process

15 Feb 2021 | On 13 February 2008, then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made the first federal government apology ...