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Multi-Award Winning Investigative Journalism. Wednesday 19th of February 2025 (UTC)
40,000 Islander descendants finally recognised :: The Stringer
Australian South Sea Islanders, the majority who are descendants of Kanaka slaves who were shanghaied and indentured into forced labour for the half century-old colonialists particularly on what is now the Queensland coastline, are calling for full recognition as an ethnic group. Federal parliamentarians tabled a motion in the House of Representatives calling for their […]
Australia’s homeless – 3rd highest rate OECD and ... - The Stringer
There are many faces to homelessness. A 51-year-old woman walked into my Perth office. She has lived thirteen consecutive years street-homeless. Not long ago, she spent eighteen months sleeping her nights in the same park. She is weary, harrowed by neglect. For the most part, she has not wanted to be seen but sadly because […]
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Multi-Award Winning Investigative Journalism. Monday 10th of February 2025 (UTC)
National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples has a 10 point plan …
The National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples has issued an open letter to the Prime Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Tony Abbott seeking commitment to 10 key actions and principles that would deliver meaningful change for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to possibly deliver a worthy legacy. Congress has set out key steps for the […]
Mandatory Sentencing - The Stringer
Mandatory sentencing negatively impacts First Peoples in ways and in rates of incarceration that prove that they are targeted – racialised. Nowhere is this more pronounced than in Western Australia where First Peoples adult males are incarcerated, from a racialised measure, at the world’s highest rate. With recent debates for more mandatory policies, penalties and […]
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Multi-Award Winning Investigative Journalism. Sunday 16th of February 2025 (UTC)
A little boy who hid under the bed – a survivor of the Stolen ...
My childhood trauma is on the public record. I was not raised by my Aboriginal mother and for this I have suffered. Right throughout my life I have been victim to abuse. When I discuss, in detail, these abuses to my non-Aboriginal colleagues, to friends and to counsellors, many of them are taken aback, commenting […]
A moral abomination – a narrative that is racialised, of human ...
Aboriginal and/or Torres youth are 26 times more likely to be in detention than non-Aboriginal youth. By 2025 they will be 40 times more likely to be in detention. From a racialised lens they are already being jailed in juvenile detention at the world’s highest rate. The statistics would higher but in Queensland, if you […]
Breaking News - The Stringer
Gerry Georgatos – A Robodebt contributed to the death by suicide of a 19 year-old-mother. Stressors and suicide are always the story. Society is defined by the sum of its relationships, and many relationships are that classist, racist, sexist, ableist, ageist that we devastate people.