Indigenous Australia
Suicide of 15 year old Aboriginal boy in Don Dale a result of NT punitive culture

The public outcries come and go but the broken and ruined lives of Aboriginal children in dete ...  
Don Dale abuse: The NT Royal Commission and maintaining outrage

We cannot allow the promise of a Royal Commission into the juvenile detention system to appease ...  
Right royal NT whitewash

Turnbull's snap decision to call a Royal Commission into juvenile detention is now looking ...  
IA, Brian Martin QC and Kevin Rudd: Appointments and disappointments

Malcolm Turnbull's appointment of Brian Ross Martin QC to his NT Royal Commission and decision to ...  
Turnbull sends message to Aboriginal Australia by appointing Brian Martin QC

PM Turnbull has undermined his newly established inquiry into NT youth detention before it has ...  
Abuse in youth detention centres not restricted to the Northern Territory

What difference will a royal commission into young people in detention in NT make if we don't ...  
Nigel Scullion not interested in child abuse: Does that ring a Pell?

When Nigel Scullion heard about child abuse happening in Northern Territory gaols, he says his ...  
NT detention: Just another atrocity

The Don Dale abuse, while horrific, is just another atrocity to add to a long list of systemic ...  
Don Dale child abuse: Be part of the solution

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders do not want more words written in reports that will be ...  
Jenny Munro: Ten storey tribute to Redfern Tent Embassy founder

Wirajuri elder and activist, Jenny Munro, has been recognised with a giant mural for her four ...  
Weatherill trumps up Citizens' Jury Report in push for SA nuke waste dump

Noel Wauchope, who has been covering the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission for IA, calls SA ...  
Open letter to creators of the Festival of Dangerous Ideas re: Bolt

With our Indigenous suicide rates one of the highest in the world, Brendan Busch felt compelled to ...  
Nova Peris' case highlights shortcomings of Australian hate speech laws

The legal response to racist Facebook posts about Nova Peris highlights the shortcomings of ...  
Indigenous Australians are still dying 20 years younger

Reports indicating that the life-expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians ...  
SPEECH: The Crown, the Australian Republic and the Traditional Owners

The ARM should pay its respects to the Traditional Owners past and present, and seal the real ...  
Sorry Day 2016: Saying sorry is nowhere near enough

On Sorry Day 2016, David Donovan recollects growing up in the bush and becoming aware of the ...  
Anzac Day and the war to end all wars

Let's make Anzac Day about trying to end war rather than about glorifying it, writes managing ...  
Utopia: The dirty secret of Indigenous Australia

Nine years after the Howard Government's "Intervention" conditions are dire for Indigenous Aus ...  
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