Life is a duel between perception and reality. Far too often when I listen to talk back radio I am incensed by what I hear. There are talkback announcers who happily create and perpetuate myths about ...
Despite the issue of jurisdiction, It is beyond comprehension why the Australian Federal Police, the Australian Government and the Australian mainstream news media have not inquired further into the ...
Internalising grief is toxic, it is a silence that maims and kills. The silences around sexual abuse, violence, emotional and psychological abuse, the –isms – sexism, racism, classism, ageism, ableism ...
More journalists are being killed each year of this century than were being killed on average per annum in the preceding century. The annual average in the last decade for journalists killed on the ...
It is nothing new for Australia to be locking up children in police cells or adult prisons. Once again, recently, an 11 year-old-girl spent a weekend at Karratha’s police station. This follows a 12 ...
Malala Yusufzai finally got her Nobel. But right here in her hometown Swat in specific and in Pakistan in general there is a mixed reaction towards her achievement. There are some who believe Malala ...
Refugee children’s advocacy group ChilOut, accompanied by two specialist medical doctors, have visited three Darwin’s detention centres and have come away with calls to end cruelty, neglect and the ...
Asylum Seeker children’s advocate ChilOut has condemned the Australian Government’s scrapping of the Independent Health Advisory Group (IHAG) who have had a long standing role overseeing health care ...
The Greece born numbers in our West Australian population is surprisingly low. In 2011 there were only 2649 people in WA who were Greece born. Those identifying with Greek ancestry in WA were 13,822.
“I wish she (Lange) hadn’t taken my picture. I can’t get a penny out out of it. She didn’t ask my name. She said she wouldn’t sell the pictures. She said she’d send me a copy. She never did.” How ...
In my previous article I looked at the Indian born community here in WA. There has been an interesting reaction to the article with a number of agencies requesting more information about that ...