When the British captured Jamaica in 1655, the Spanish colonists fled, leaving a large number of African slaves. Rather than be re-enslaved by the British, the slaves escaped into the hilly, ...

The Western Australian Government has a bent for demolishing the communities and homes of First Peoples, and then sitting idly by, not too fussed about many of them who become homeless. In the ...

This quote that forms the title of this article is from Adam Smith, the Philosopher and Economist who is considered to be the Father of Modern Economics. He is best known for two classic works: “The ...

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.

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Conference – Black led, Black owned It is an abomination – moral, political and otherwise – when one in three deaths of Aboriginal and ...

Indigenous women are currently the most over-represented population in both Queensland and Australian prisons. In 2010 approximately 30% of all incarcerated women in Australia were Indigenous, while ...

When I first started doing work on radio here in Perth in the late 1990’s, the on air host took me aside and said “We are going to have to change your name because people in Australia will never be ...

A snapshot of Australian history in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries Massacres of Aboriginal peoples were often not recorded. In 1790, Governor Arthur Phillip issued an order for a delegation “of two ...

The WA Police Union jumped to the defence of the police officers and said they would support the officers. It is expected that the legal costs would be met by the Police Union. WA Police Commissioner ...

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.

Below I am reproducing some of the commentary from a couple of social media sites relating to this matter. The second part of this is from the 9News Perth Facebook page. I have to say that I am ...

When you tell me ‘you don’t look Aboriginal’, you are denying that I am Aboriginal. To deny that I am Aboriginal is to deny that my grandmother was taken by welfare because she was Aboriginal, by the ...