Social Justice
7000 victims of child abuse “tip of the iceberg”
Friday, June 24 2011
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released a report saying 7000 children aged fourteen and under were sexually abused last......
Indigenous Australia not so happy with intervention past and future
Thursday, June 23 2011
Regular Wire correspondent Patrick Pollack, director of news from the National Indigenous Radio Service , discusses the reaction from indigenous......
“Go back to where you came from” – new SBS series stirs up asylum seeker debate
Wednesday, June 22 2011
“Go back to where you came from” is a controversial new reality TV style documentary which went to air on......
Welcome to Australia – a positive message for refugees
Wednesday, June 22 2011
Welcome to Australia is a new movement aiming to send a more positive message during Refugee Week. The groups was......
Links between sexuality and poverty revealed
Tuesday, June 21 2011
The United Nations Human Rights Council passed a historic resolution. It is the first time in UN history that gender......
Syria crackdown continues-thousands of fatalities
Tuesday, June 21 2011
The pro-democracy revolution which erupted in Syria March this year, continues to escalate, but at the expense of its citizens.......
Doing Time- report into high rates of Aboriginal incarceration
Tuesday, June 21 2011
One quarter of Australia’s juvenile prisoners are Aboriginal, despite Indigenous people representing just 2.5 percent of Australia’s population. A senate......
Refugee Week
Friday, June 17 2011
As the Gillard Government try to finalise their refugee-swap agreement with Malaysia, Communities in Australia and around the world are......
Disabled carers need more support
Friday, June 17 2011
Yesterday Beverley May Eitzen was acquitted of the murder of her 16 year old disabled son on the grounds of......
The Dalai Lama does Brisbane
Friday, June 17 2011
His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, has been making a whirlwind tour of Australia and today he spoke to thousands of......