Indigenous Australia
POEM: A Nation of Apologies

This poem is an *IA Writing Competition (creative work category) entry.  
Middle East genocide bears parallels to Australian colonisation

The atrocities being committed against Gazans bear similarities to the brutality carried out ...  
BOOK REVIEW: Always Was, Always Will Be

Thomas Mayo's 'Always Was, Always Will Be' inspires hope after the failure of the Yes campaign ...  
A champion of justice reform: Vale Mervyn Langford

I write this as a memorial, a celebration of my friend, Mervyn Langford, who died on 14 July ...  
65 reasons why Dutton is unfit to be PM

No stranger to controversy, Peter Dutton's offensive pattern of behaviour continues to darken his ...  
NT kicks off 'opportunity' plan by locking up children and throwing away key

Managing editor Michelle Pini discusses the alacrity with which the incoming Northern Territory ...  
Voice referendum provides lesson for promoting equity

Progressives need to better argue the case for equity or conservatives will have more victories ...  
War Memorial's ignorance of Frontier Wars must end

The Australian War Memorial fails to recognise conflicts between First Nations people and colon ...  
Anzac religion unfitting in multicultural Australia

The Anzac legend encompasses predominantly White Australian history with little significance to ...  
ABBA: Knight time for Sweden's pop royalty

While ABBA has found much to celebrate this week, various attendees of Madonna's concerts have ...  
Laura Tingle – and News Corp – call Australia a racist country

Laura Tingle calls Australia a "racist country" just as News Corp calls Australia antisemit ...  
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Laura Tingle calls Australia a 'racist country' causing News Corp outrage

The ABC's Laura Tingle has caused consternation and outrage at News Corp and its acolytes over ...  
Rinehart portrait stirs debate over art censorship

A portrait of mining magnate Gina Rinehart has erupted in controversy after the subject ordered ...  
'Race' and the invention of racists

The concept of 'race' as we know it is a fabrication that is hindering Australia's progress ...  
NZ race relations provide clearer picture for Australia's Voice denial

The inflaming of race relations in New Zealand provides a basis for repudiating the “No” case ...  
Australia's prison system killed Cleveland Dodd

The fate of Cleveland Dodd was determined by a cruel incarceration system that is designed to ...  
ABC 2024: Battle of wills over ideologies

Dr Lee Duffield, a veteran of ABC journalism and former Journalism academic, has been appraising ...  
Why Barnaby's drunken planter tumble – and other mad acts – matter

After Barnaby Joyce MP was filmed sprawled on his back on a Canberra footpath, managing editor ...  
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