Government policy and Indigenous incarceration rates

16 Aug 2016 | One in six Aboriginal persons is gaoled in WA — such compelling evidence is a damning indict ...  

IA podcast #2: Gerry Georgatos on Don Dale and Indigenous rights

13 Aug 2016 | Independent Australia managing editor David Donovan discusses with human right's activist, award ...  

The Oz cartoonist Bill Leak sparks social media outrage for racist cartoon

5 Aug 2016 | Bill Leak's latest cartoon depicting stereotyped Aboriginal people has sparked controversy with ...  

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

4 Aug 2016 | 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

3 Aug 2016 | We cannot allow the promise of a Royal Commission into the juvenile detention system to appease ...  

Right royal NT whitewash

1 Aug 2016 | 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

30 Jul 2016 | 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

29 Jul 2016 | 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

28 Jul 2016 | 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?

28 Jul 2016 | When Nigel Scullion heard about child abuse happening in Northern Territory gaols, he says his ...  

NT detention: Just another atrocity

27 Jul 2016 | 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

27 Jul 2016 | 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

17 Jul 2016 | 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

15 Jul 2016 | 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

10 Jul 2016 | 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

7 Jun 2016 | The legal response to racist Facebook posts about Nova Peris highlights the shortcomings of ...  

Indigenous Australians are still dying 20 years younger

5 Jun 2016 | Reports indicating that the life-expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians ...