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 ...  

Inequality not just about wealth but also about power

28 Jul 2017 | Inequality is growing because there is an uneven distribution of power.  

Dr G Yunupingu: And now a deafening silence

27 Jul 2017 | Internationally acclaimed Indigenous musician Dr G Yunupingu has died at age 46 following a long ...  

Elijah Doughty's death was murder

24 Jul 2017 | "Dangerous driving occasioning death" is crap — 14-year-old Elijah Doughty was killed by murd ...  

Dutton's Austasi — Turnbull's worst decision yet

20 Jul 2017 | Making Peter Dutton tsar over an immense Homeland Security-style department is easily Turnbull's ...  

Why Marcia Langton is wrong on Adani

13 Jun 2017 | For all her powerful and peerless leadership of Aboriginal rights, Professor Marcia Langton has it ...