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How many times can we do this? I have almost lost count of the times we have done this in the last few years but here we go again. Kai Tippett and his family migrated to Australia about 5 years ago.
Sexual abuse will hurt one in every three Australians, it is an endemic problem nationally but in the Northern Territory, according to Ms Blayney and according to many academic researchers and highly ...
Serving Country means serving your people and fighting for justice whether you are within the government or outside it, NAIDOC’s Person of the Year, Professor Gracelyn Smallwood said after being among ...
Academics, bureaucrats and policy makers, far too many of them, are a defining part of the problems and worse are who get in the way of what needs to be understood and done to address the wrongs that ...
As humanity stands at the brink of technological singularity, the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents the most consequential force in the history of our species. It offers not merely the ...
In Czeslaw Milosz‘s International Poetry Anthology A Book of Luminous Things I read the poetry of Polish poet Anna Swir (Anna Swirszcynska). It is revelatory. This is sophisticated and powerful poetry ...
Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett said that he would consider the proposition of subsidising the wages of former prisoners if it meant that it would reduce the likelihood of them re-offending.
As Blackfella’s we learn to read signs in the landscape when the Burruguu-ngayi-li (Dreaming…) directly impacts with the physical world. There are devastating consequences when we forget who we are as ...
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Thus spoke Juliet in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. But what did she mean and what does this say about the ...
Governor McCusker asserted that Australian democracy and its Government arose without civil strife. This was all too much for the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Roger Cook who yesterday challenged ...
Two and half years ago Noongar Kevin Spratt’s tragic maltreatment at the hands of police officers made headlines around the world. CCTV footage caught out police officers who indiscriminately tasered ...
I believe it is time to think indigenous even at the price of rejection. To disagree with mainstream expectations is to wake up, to understand what is happening, to be of service to a larger whole.