AMY MCQUIRE argues that although Australia is an island, we must remember that we aren’t the only one.
They stood in stark contrast to the scene around them, and yet somehow they fit in.
Amongst the fluttering Aboriginal flags and “Stop the racist intervention” signs stood men in West Papuan headdresses, wearing the Morning Star […]

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Avoiding Mr Right
By Anita Heiss
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Bantam Australia
RRP: $23.95

I’ve never understood what was so glamorous about a group of thirty-something women sleeping their way around New York. It reeked of desperation to me.
So to have the new “black chicklit” book by Anita Heiss compared to Sex and the City is enough of a turn […]

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It was election time up in the Northern Territory on Saturday. But you wouldn’t have guessed it judging from the front page of the NT News.

Yes. Believe it or not, this was Monday’s frontpage scoop. Never mind the fact that the rest of the country were talking about the shock 9 percent swing to the […]

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Last year, the annual Garma Festival was not just a celebration of Indigenous culture and art, but also had a distinct political aura.

Forums over the NT intervention made news on broadsheets around the nation as Aboriginal leaders made their views clear on the Howard government’s latest offence.
As Garma heats up again up in […]

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ISSUE 158, July 24, 2008: Warren Mundine is attacking Aboriginal rights again, and The Australian newspaper is as one-eyed as it’s always been. You just can’t put a price on consistency, writes BRIAN JOHNSTONE*.

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Prof LARISSA BEHRENDT looks at former Prime Minister John Howard’s past record.

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Prof LARISSA BEHRENDT* urges quick and drastic change as global warming affects the earth.

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