EDITORIAL: A name change for Australia Day — time to call it what it is

24 Jan 2018 | Independent Australia proposes a name change for the 26 January public holiday, so that it is ...  

Australia Day: Changing the date changes nothing

23 Jan 2018 | Changing the date will not resolve anything without a Treaty, recognition of sovereignty and ...  

The demons of Van Dieman's Land: Britain's genocide in Tasmania

20 Jan 2018 | Not only were British colonists at war with Australia's First People, but irrefutable evidence ...  

EDITORIAL EXCERPT: Malcolm's Day of disappointment

18 Jan 2018 | Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says he is disappointed with Australians. But Australians are more ...  

Teela Reid torches Malsplain Turnbull's misleading #QandA straw men

22 Dec 2017 | On Q&A last week, the Prime Minister set out to mislead Australians about the Uluru Statement ...  

Fifield ignores #NBNFail to voice outrage at Triple J's Hottest 100 move

29 Nov 2017 | Mitch Fifield took time out from the NBN disaster to launch an outraged attack on youth broadca ...  

Australia's heartless 'House of Discards' refuse First Nations' fundamental rights

21 Nov 2017 | The weakness at the heart of our democracy is revealed in the lack of protections for our First ...  

Australia's abominable secret: A suicide crisis among children

15 Nov 2017 | Australia's suicide rates among Indigenous children is a national abomination borne of dirt-poor ...  

Turnbull's loud and clear contempt for Indigenous voice

1 Nov 2017 | The Turnbull Government dismisses the suggestion First Nations people should be involved in ...  

From Left to Right and back again: The Donald Horne enigma

15 Oct 2017 | A new selection of writings by iconoclastic social commentator and historian Donald Horne has ...  

Support marriage equality? Yes. We do!

11 Oct 2017 | Independent Australia strongly supports marriage equality — as we support justice, fairness ...  

Héritier Lumumba and the AFL’s problem with race

24 Sep 2017 | After the resignation of two prominent footballers, it seems the AFL has learnt little about its ...  

Scullion sends Indigenous Advancement funding to Australia Day celebrations

13 Sep 2017 | Why were next year’s Australia Day celebrations going to be funded via the Government’s ...  

Systemic failures lead to Aboriginal death in custody in NSW

10 Sep 2017 | The NSW Coroner finds systemic failures led to the suicide death of an Indigenous man in a NSW ...  

Voices of reason call for immediate end to NT Indigenous Intervention

27 Aug 2017 | Hundreds of eminent Australians will tomorrow in Melbourne add their support to Indigenous calls ...  

Plebiscite fever and the First Nations: Peering into the leadership abyss

18 Aug 2017 | Progress towards a treaty or treaties with Australia's First Nations is hampered by a number of ...  

Did we kill Dr Yunupingu? Poor fellow my country

5 Aug 2017 | Dr Yunupingu did not need to die; he was killed by a system that abandoned him, writes contribu ...  

Drowning in White privilege

29 Jul 2017 | The First Nations community is both reeling and in mourning; Indigenous affairs editor Natalie ...