Social Justice
The carers who look after our community’s most vulnerable deserve more compensation, especially women, says the Australian Human Rights Commission....
The Law
“These are called … regional processing centres and yet there is no processing or assessment going on.” UNHCR says that...
Communications & Culture
Biggest gathering of its kind in Sydney in twenty years aims to showcase Aboriginal playwrights, and now the participants say...
Aboriginal Elder Rosalie Kunoth-Monks is known to be one of the feistiest warriors against the Northern Territory Intervention. She was...
Education
In results released today Australian children were beaten by 26 countries in the 2011 Progress in International Reading and Literacy...
The PIRLS results are the first to give information about younger readers, and suggest that funding at the early levels...
Politics & Economy
A war of words has broken out between the government and opposition over a new system that will automatically enroll...
Science & Environment
The first national snapshot of the state of our fish stocks was released today. Many scientists have welcomed the attempt...
Health
Indigenous Australians are more likely to die from cancer than non-Indigenous Australians, as a result of poor access to healthcare...
Aboriginal elders in Western Australia are taking steps to document their communities’ heritage and culture on film. The Indigenous Community...