The tragic killing of five-year-old Warlpiri girl Kumanjayi Little Baby exposes systemic failures in the justice and policing systems and the need for Aboriginal-led alternatives. Kerry Smith reports.
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Thirty-five years on from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the situation remains dire across Australia, with one prison in Western Australia reporting the deaths of two women in as many months. Blair Vidakovich and Cas Smith report.
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The New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council has lodged a complaint with the Australian Human Rights Commission over the NSW Labor government’s threats to the land claim and land return process. Paul Gregoire reports.
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I was one of 22 people arrested in Magan-djin/Brisbane. Whether it was necessary for so many police to arrest one 73-year-old Jew, I’ll let you decide. Stephen Heydt reports.
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Uncle Ray Minniecon was booed by some in the crowd at the ANZAC Day dawn service in Hyde Park, but he persevered with his address, later saying people have to understand that this always was and always will be Aboriginal land. Peter Boyle reports.
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Shamikh Badra pays tribute to Caroline Graham, an activist who turned solidarity with Gaza into a living act of hope and resistance.
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The premise that sex work is inherently and inevitably high risk leads to a lack of support for legal reform. Barbarella Karpinski argues that danger is structured and sustained by law, stigma and urban planning.
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Jacob Andrewartha argues that Angus Taylor’s “values-based” migration scheme is the latest example of the ruling class’ bid to ramp up racism and distract people from government failures in a worsening cost-of-living crisis.
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Palestinian Prisoners’ Day was marked at protests and rallies across Australia over April 17-19, reports Kerry Smith.
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Hannah Jamal writes that every Palestinian and Lebanese person in the diaspora knows the feeling of seeing yourself and your family mirrored in every martyr, every injured and displaced person.
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Liberal opposition leader Angus Taylor’s new immigration policy, built around what he calls “Australian values”, is nothing of the sort. Shamikh Badra argues it directly targets Palestinians.
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Most people were hoping for big petrol tax cuts or cost-of-living adjustments from the PM’s rare address to the nation. He claims to support a ceasefire but he didn't even criticise Trump and Netanyahu’s illegal attacks on Iran and Lebanon. Sue Bolton outlines what Labor should do.