More than 50 leading researchers, academics, government and coalface community workers attended, yesterday and today, an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health and Suicide Prevention ...

Aboriginal and/or Torres youth are 26 times more likely to be in detention than non-Aboriginal youth. By 2025 they will be 40 times more likely to be in detention. From a racialised lens they are ...

I am not talking about beat up media polling of the acceptability or popularity of a policy change that the government has already implemented, to engender lively debate on the print, TV and web media ...

Over the last two weeks there is an announcement that appears to have slipped under the radar of most advocates in the areas that The Stringer is involved with. This is the announcement that Ms Yvonne ...

Suresh Rajan in defence of Father Chris Bedding The first time I met the man, I was at an event at St George’s Cathedral in Perth. He slapped me on the back and made some humorous remark about my ...

Medicare, the PBS and the NDIS denied to the incarcerated but a stroke of the pen can fix In a just society human rights must remain inalienably universal but for 40,000 Australians this is not so, ...

Transform Australia’s prisons The more west we journey across the nation the higher the arrest rates, the higher the jailing rates. In the last two decades Australia’s prison population has doubled.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander life expectancy has not improved to a 10.6 years gap – still dying more than 20 years less The life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders ...

Recently in Western Australia, an 86-year-old grandmother, an Aboriginal lady, was threatened with eviction for non-payment of a state-housing water bill. Her eviction has only been stalled by the ...

Suresh Rajan and Marion Hercock polarised on ‘Islamisation’ In a recent article in The Sunday Times the Australian Liberty Alliance announced with some considerable fanfare that Dr Marion Hercock was ...

No time to ponder, argue or to judge – time for suicide prevention Gerry Georgatos – By year’s end, harrowingly, Australia will record the highest ever suicide toll, in excess of 3,200 Australian ...

On the Bus It is so frustrating. Destroy the Joint are counting dead women, mostly women who are killed by men. Destroy the Narrative are counting dead men, only those who have been killed by women.