The version of Australian identity that excludes newcomers based on difference is not patriotism, but a failure to accept that very difference is what builds the nation.
We are the princess. Reject Hanson’s othering. Love our unfinished multicultural nation enough to transform. Wish it so.
The gap between a government's rhetoric and its conduct is the full measure of its character.
Assuring equality under the law requires the persistent effort of people and institutions to deliver on the promise, a matter at which Australia is failing.
Australia is not and has never been a defined racial group. There is no racial purity and those who argue such are not its defenders.
Generating the momentum to realise the Dream envisioned in 1963 by Luther King requires the moral will to demand what is owed.
Millennia has brought us to this point in time and has shown us that what we are to become is very much up to ourselves.
Far from buckling to threats by the United States, Pope Leo XIV's response has made clear that the papacy will not be bullied into compliance.
Inequities in the management of first-time drug offences by NSW Police highlight the ongoing problems in Closing the Gap.
Societal change is achieved via the courage of those willing to challenge the power of wealthy, by those willing to plant their ideas wherever they stand.
I. The Upper RoomThey gathered where the lamplight held the night at bay,and bread was broken gently into willing hands.A teacher poured out wine as dark as fading day,and love…
Enforcing a disputed political definition in the public service sets an implicit bias that will affect public policy and relations both local and international.
The persistent lack of accountability for the vilification of Muslims threatens to undermine the foundations of equality that form the fabric of our society.
Australia's future lies with those who are working constructively to build a more mature multicultural society.
Australia must learn from the deterioration of democratic freedoms of the United States and defend the freedoms of individuals and independence of the courts.
The exclusionary politics that devastated the Haitian people are being played out almost a century later in the United States.
Comprehension of the social and ideological foundations accepted by society are precursors to structural change.
The Muslim community is culturally and politically diverse, historically engaged in reasoned debate, whilst contemporaneously progressive and inclusive.
I have been voting in Australian elections for decades. Over that time I have supported a range of parties and individuals – Liberal when I thought they had the right…