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There is one particular sentence in the Productivity Commission's latest Closing the Gap Annual Data Compilation Report that should alarm you. Not because of what it counts.
Pauline Hanson speaking about Aboriginal people on a white Christian podcast last year said "they're the most primitive race on Earth and we're supposed to be holding them up and saying what they've a...
Let's call Pauline Hanson's comments what they are. Racism. Calling Aboriginal people "primitive" and questioning what we achieved over tens of thousands of years is not courageous political debate.
This week marks thirty years since Pauline Hanson first stood in the Australian parliament. A week not to celebrate, but to reckon with what three decades of her politics has cost all Australians.
When the Country Liberal Party (CLP) took office in August 2024, ending eight years of sometimes shambolic Labor rule, there was vocal concern among many First Nations groups about what was to come.
The result of the Secret Harbour by-election should make political leaders across Western Australia pay attention. People are frustrated, and in many cases they have good reason to be.
This year's Child Protection Week (September 6-12) theme, Every Conversation Matters: Shifting Conversation to Action, is an important one. Because when it comes to Aboriginal* children and families...
Note: This piece contains references to domestic and family violence and the abuse of children. Dorothy Papertalk lost her three grandchildren in 2022, at the hands of their mother, her daughter Marga...
