The Guardian • Aboriginal
Issue #2125
The Pacific – To live in peace
For the past few weeks I have been on the road in Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Australia at the invitation of groups such as Te...
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Issue #2046
IWD SA
In her welcome at Fidel’s, a venue belonging to the Workers’ Club, Sally Mitchell, president of the Port Adelaide Workers’ Club and the Port Adelaide...
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Issue #2175
HALF THE SKY
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are the fastest-growing prison population, imprisoned at more than 20 times the rate of non-Indigenous women. In addition, they...
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Issue #2127
HALF OF THE SKY
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are the most incarcerated people on the planet. They make up only 2.5 per cent of the adult female...
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Issue #2191
HALF THE SKY
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women have had a fierce tradition of protest music in Australia, blending personal, community, and political struggle fighting for land,...
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Issue #2074
HALF THE SKY
Elle Bee Faith Bandler (1918 - 2015) was an activist and who dedicated her life to civil rights. Her father was from the South Sea Islands and...
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Issue #1994
Aboriginal flag ownership remains divisive
While some First Nations Australians are celebrating the now unrestricted right to use the flag, others are wary and sceptical. Earlier in January, the Australian...
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Issue #2107
Warranku Ninti Festival
The Shire of East Pilbara worked with the First Nations Martumili Artists to offer a spectacular light and sound show at the Warrarnku Ninti Festival,...
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Issue #2107
NAIDOC week, 2024
Standing for National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee, NAIDOC week celebrates the history, culture, and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in...
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Issue #2101
Sorry Day
Sunday 26 May 2024 marks seven years since the Uluru Statement from the Heart was issued by First Nations Peoples “from all points of the...
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Issue #2092
International Women’s Day 2024
IWD walk for peace – Perth This year on 8 March around 300 women in Perth walked through Perth CBD for the first IWD Peace...
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Issue #2129
LETTERS
Capitalist climate change The incendiary cataclysms in Los Angeles, California remind us that the root cause of the climate crisis exacerbating the fires spreading throughout...
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Issue #2108
Sunshine Coast ‘RAP-Up’
This year I attended a public flag raising event in Nambour as part of NAIDOC week. Various dignitaries where there, including local Indigenous Elders, and...
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Issue #2129
GREEN NOTES
In many parts of the nation, First Nations working with non-Aboriginal Australians has emerged as a sustainable way of dealing with the environmental challenges posed...
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Issue #2039
DINGO
How to fund endless war? That is the question. That ‘tis better to grab workers’ retirement funds to build Australia’s military industrial complex and pour...
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Issue #2020
Stage set for Indigenous Voice to Parliament
Last month, at the Garma Festival in Arnhem Land, prime minister Anthony Albanese released the draft wording that would be inserted into the constitution that...
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Issue #2091
Save our Songlines
Mardudhunera woman, Federal Court victor and former Chair of the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation, Raelene Cooper, has released her submission to the Federal government’s Offshore Petroleum...
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Issue #2132
Communist Party’s fight for Aboriginals
Members of the Sunshine Coast Branch of the CPA stumbled upon a statement from 1931 outlining the CPA’s position in solidarity with Aboriginal Australians. It...
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Issue #2131
LETTERS
Feigned concern Albanese and Wong are delusional if they think their ‘mate’ in the Whitehouse is their friend or they can do deals with him....
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Issue #2058
Aboriginal housing: Australia’s biggest policy failure?
The inadequate if not negligent response of governments around Australia to the critical issue of Aboriginal housing – perhaps the country’s biggest policy failure –...
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Issue #2112
EDITORIAL
“I commit to the Uluru statement from the Heart in full.” (Anthony Albanese, 31 May, 2022) Before he became Prime Minister, back when Australians were...
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Issue #2128
Future Fund – Dirty and deadly
Treasurer Jim Chalmers stirred the Coalition pot when he announced changes to the Future Fund (FF) with its current nest egg of more than $230...
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Issue #2119
Indigenous health
More than a year after the release of Coroner Wilson’s findings regarding the deaths of three Aboriginal women in the remote Queensland town of Doomadgee,...
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Issue #2126
Frack off
Territorians condemn the Finocchiaro government’s approval of gas company Empire Energy’s Carpentaria project, and renew calls for the Albanese government to use the powers available...
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Issue #2060
Why we support the YES campaign!
On 19th June 2023, Parliament passed a bill for a referendum to recognise Indigenous Australians in the Constitution, and to give them a Voice to...
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Issue #2118
DINGO
Senator Lidia Thorpe: “I just successfully passed a motion in the Senate to make the Attorney-General provide quarterly reports to the Senate about deaths in...
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Issue #2128
For a 2025 without genocide
People around the world live in horror as witnesses to ongoing genocide in Gaza for the past 14 long months. Zionism has exposed to the...
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Issue #2122
A UN target to protect and restore 30 per cent of nature by 2030 will not be achieved in ocean environments until 2107 on current...
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Issue #2120
Indigenous Health
First Nations healthcare today is still fraught with discriminatory practices which have harmful impacts on communities. The gender pain gap – women are more likely...
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Issue #2129
INVASION DAY
Basically, a policy of genocide has been followed. There were the shootings, massacres and poisonings by the colonial occupiers, the stolen lands, the forcing of...
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Issue #2130
Deaths in custody continue to rise
Since the Royal Commission into Deaths in Custody reported in 1991, there have been 582 Aboriginal deaths in custody. Most of the Commission’s 339 recommendations...
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Issue #2115
EDITORIAL
No charges will be laid over Veronica Nelson’s death in custody in 2020. Nelson, a Gunditjmara, Dja Dja Wurrung, Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta woman, was...
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Issue #2104
Remembering the Stolen Generations during National Reconciliation Week in WA
Every year the Western Australian Department of Justice puts on a symposium during Reconciliation Week that highlights a part of the State’s history of its...
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Issue #2162
EDITORIAL
It’s a war that started recently, but really it’s been going on for a long time. It’s appalling, but it’s so constant that people not...
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Issue #2196
Unite against racism
The ongoing mainstreaming of fascistic Pauline Hanson and her One Nation party reached a new low with the invitation to Hanson to address the National...
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