Indigenous Australia
Undoing the promise of Mabo

More than two decades after Mabo, the promise of enduring native title is being quietly dismantled ...  
Rejection of LNP first step in eliminating Australia's Far-Right

The 2025 Federal Election was an indication that Australians have had enough of the rise in ...  
Now let’s see how Labor transforms the nation

Labor’s winning margin virtually guarantees it two terms of significant reform, with more beyond ...  
David Littleproud hints at civil rights removal for Indigenous kids

Nationals Leader David Littleproud is pushing for the removal of the civil rights of child offe ...  
POEM: Requiem for Lost Children

Shssh. Listen. Can you hear them? Children singing? Children laughing? Yes, brother. Yes, sister. ...  
Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions tells an important piece of Indigenous history

A new book by acclaimed author Clare Wright examines how the people of Yirrkala changed the course ...  
BOOK REVIEW: The Leaves

A harrowing tale of systemic failure, Jacqueline Rule's 'The Leaves' unveils the injustices faced ...  
There's something about Lidia

Is Senator Lidia Thorpe’s brand of politics exactly what Australia needs?  
Politicians and media doing nothing to fix child removal crisis

Australia is facing a crisis in which 'child protection' services are reuniting a staggeringly low ...  
War Memorial makes little effort to recognise Frontier Wars

The Australian War Memorial is still failing to acknowledge the Frontier Wars as an important part ...  
'Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections.' So they should

The recent QLD Election only exemplified our broken, violent "democratic" system. Neither w ...  
Morals versus ethics: Australia's flawed justice system

Our nation's justice system is in need of reform when children are being imprisoned and corpora ...  
POEM: Sonnet on a failure

 
Queensland conservatives divide state with law and order campaigns

Right-wing parties in the upcoming Queensland State Election are campaigning on divisive issues ...  
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 ...  

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