The life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and the rest of the population remains two decades wide. Despite the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reporting that the ...

Al Jazeera’s 101 East – As the Black Lives Matter movement spreads across the globe, we investigate Australia’s Indigenous incarceration crisis. Across Australia, Indigenous people are ...

The Refugee Rights Action Network (RRAN) Perth is coordinating a national convergence of the refugee rights movement to the Yongah Hill Detention Centre, Northam (one hour northeast of Perth), April ...

This post contains disability and racial hate speech. This is Neil. Neil is a retard. Imbecile, dummy, stupid, idiot, subnormal, a mongol, defective, dimwitted, mentally defective, moronic, slow, ...

Last year in Western Australia an ill female prisoner was denied every dignity and carted naked, handcuffed, in the back of a prisoner transport vehicle to a hospital. Last year in South Australian ...

Mandatory sentencing negatively impacts First Peoples in ways and in rates of incarceration that prove that they are targeted – racialised. Nowhere is this more pronounced than in Western Australia ...

The Northern Territory and Australian Governments are delivering unprecedented opportunities to resource mining companies while at the same time by comparison doing very little for the majority of ...

In the tourist mecca of the Maldives, a teenage girl who was repeatedly raped by her stepfather has been sentenced to 100 lashes. There has been no public outcry by the world’s governments or by ...

While the nine months strong Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy holds out against eviction threats by the Aboriginal Housing Company at one end of the continent, at the other end another Embassy ...

The (West Australian) South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council’s CEO, Glen Kelly, has this morning met with Elders from the Swan Valley Nyungah Communty. Yesterday their former homes were demolished ...

It’s long overdue – an inquiry into some of what’s dished out as public housing. I’ve seen hundreds of families housed into the most appalling conditions. Nationwide, the majority of remote public ...

In the argy bargy that has accompanied the introduction of the National Disability insurance Scheme (NDIS), particularly in Western Australia; you would be forgiven for imagining that either of the ...