Indigenous Australia
Vale Uncle Jack Charles: Beloved actor and activist passes away

Much loved actor and Aboriginal elder Uncle Jack Charles has passed away aged 79.  
Australia is betraying its incarcerated children

Urgent reform is overdue to help Australia's children in need of guidance instead of incarcerat ...  
Albanese's Voice to Parliament referendum should be a no-brainer

Is a Voice to Parliament really such a difficult thing or is it a simple change?  
Members Exclusive
EDITORIAL: Albanese's Voice to parliament referendum should be a no-brainer

It could be our geographic isolation that has kept Australia out of step with the modern world in ...  
Couldn't get much worse: Dutton's start as Opposition Leader

This month it’s four years since Opposition Leader, Peter Dutton, challenged former Prime ...  
Three reasons to feel cheerful — about being an Australian since May

Despite numerous reports to the contrary, the new Albanese Government has made a good start in ...  
Archie Roach — A remarkable life

Indigenous Australian artist Archie Roach, best known as the voice of the Stolen Generations, has ...  
All or nothing: Including a First Nations voice to Parliament

Changing the Constitution to include an Indigenous voice to Parliament would require other changes ...  
Stuart Robert's alabaster history wars

Founder and publisher David Donovan explains why Stuart Robert is unfit to determine what our kids ...  
FLASHBACK 2017: Drowning in White privilege

There is still much to be done toward ending racism in Australia.  
Hope for mabu liyan, a healthy national spirit, at last

Several recent developments have raised expectations for substantial progress for the first ...  
ARM'S new model for republic not the people's choice

ARM's way or harm's way? The Australian Republic Movement's new "choice model" tipped to deliver o ...  
The poor are filling our prisons because we leave them behind

There is a tsunami of poverty-related issues and draconian laws swamping offenders and filling ...  
Harmony Day airbrushes Australia's racist ideologies

Harmony Day continues to be a day of tokenism, as Australia has whitewashed the International Day ...  
Walker, Assange and the 'climate kids': Signs of a broken legal system

One of the most hackneyed weapons in any colonial apologist’s arsenal is the myth former colo ...  
Rising child suicides should alarm all of us

I remember a father who found his son hours after his suicide. The father lay his son down and ...  
Indigenous Australians: 'This is the torment of our powerlessness' 

As called for in the Uluru Statement from the Heart, a First Nations Voice enshrined in the ...  
Australia Day: Flag 'freed', date still in chains

The fact we celebrate Australia Day each year on this date, January 26, is a glaring example of ...  

Support IAIndependent Australia

Subscribe to IA and investigate Australia today.

Close Subscribe Donate