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Anthony Foster: A colossus between sex abuse victims and the church

A farewell to the unwavering advocate for Catholic Church victims of child sex abuse, Anthony ...  
Newscorp and Caleb Bond's half-baked opinions: Australians deserve better

Shouldn’t pre-voting age teens be asked to provide some evidence before smearing their opinions ...  
A 92 year old woman's plea for justice from the Catholic Church

Eileen Piper fights for justice from the Church for her only daughter, Stephanie, who suicided at ...  
Milo and the alt-right: Is there honour even amongst morality’s dregs?

It's now OK to slander on grounds of race, sexual preference and gender but not paedophilia. Who ...  
New books and Australian made polo shirts in the IA store

Independent Australia is doing much more than Malcolm and Scott to support Australian made prod ...  
Australia's shame: Some communities have 600 times the national suicide rate

Nearly one in three of the nation’s child suicides are of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...  
Child protection myth: Bigger budgets 'save' families

Let's radically reduce child protection budgets so the focus is only on genuinely at-risk child ...  
Three VicPol Magi journey to Rome: Not for Messiah but Messianic Pell

Let us hope that the three wise persons from Downunder bring home with them the joyous gift of ...  
Young refugees are bringing hope to Gaza through sport

Defying ongoing oppression, young refugees in Gaza are making their mark in international sport ...  
The day of reckoning for the Children of Despair

This week has shown that the Australian public don't care about immigrant children being abused in ...  
Evidence shows crimes committed by our government on Nauru and Manus

Evidence of crimes committed by Australia on Manus and Nauru is compelling, say Greg Barns and ...  
Turnbull Government blames jobless for no jobs

Instead of creating jobs and programmes to assist Australia's young jobless, the Turnbull Gover ...  
Saving the planet: A passionate plea from Ruby the Climate Kid

Demonstrating wisdom lacking in our political leaders, six-year-old Ruby the Climate Kid is ...  
Australia’s Indigenous children are incarcerated at the world’s highest rate

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are sentenced and incarcerated at the world's ...  
Mounting abuses in youth detention need Indigenous-led solutions

With ever more reports surfacing about child abuse and torture in Australia's detention centres ...  
First Don Dale now #Nauruleak on rampant child abuse earns global censure

The Turnbull Government has earned world-wide condemnation again for its treatment of children in ...  
Human rights abuses and our accountability

Daemon Singer of the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties discusses our complicity in human ...  
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 ...  
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