The law must be held to account. The institutions that carry it must be held to account. The politicians who shape those institutions must be held to account.
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck ...
Higher expectations and broader negative assumptions of an Indigenous man underpin the pervasive structural racism that destroys First Nations lives.
Every year on the 26th of May, Australia observes National Sorry Day. Flags are lowered. Speeches are made. Politicians stand at podiums and invoke the language of healing, reconciliation, and…
Before the word sorry was even possible, the country already knew what had been taken ...
Some of you have been reading this blog since its earliest days. You know the history. You know what was attempted. This is a brief note to tell you that…
Far from being a footnote in history, the Enlightenment remains a challenge to the racism and exclusion plaguing Australia and the world.
Regardless of recommendations, time and again, the rights of Indigenous people in Australia are subordinated to those of others, The Gap never closing.
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.
Yolngu painting is more than art. It is a living expression of ancestors, land and community, one with the Dreaming.
Inequities in the management of first-time drug offences by NSW Police highlight the ongoing problems in Closing the Gap.
An Indigenous woman, a luminary, a creator. We are the lesser for her loss.
Between the Glyde’s brown pull and the Arafura’s breath,where saltpan cracks like sentences half-said,I walk the country that was old before our clocks,and learn to read a language without thread.The…
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…
Contradictory records presented by the Australian Federal Police for the same day regarding entirely separate matters demonstrate manipulation of evidence.
Fly with me through the dreaming, where the night sky opens like a doorway and the old spirits speak in soft winds, guiding our steps across the warm red earth.Let…
Entrenched Australian romanticism in the face of the demographic, religious and economic changes of multiculturalism sets a path to democratic inequality.