Trying to figure out the best days for garbage collection, improving traffic flow on the streets, developing and maintaining the boundaries and relationships between business and residential zones… …these are just some of the many things I’d expect to be handled by local Australian city councils. When it comes to the City of Sydney however, [...]

Since 2004, crime rates in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory have exploded. Robbery is up 450%, sexual assault is up 97% and commercial break-ins are up 185%. In response to these statistics, the activist group ‘Action for Alice’ self funded a television commercial targeted at the Northern Territory government that aired on Aboriginal TV [...]

The term ‘Stolen Generation‘ refers to the period roughly between 1869 to sometime in the 1970′s where Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their families by the Australian government. There didn’t need to be any reason for doing so and the government was under no obligation to establish a case that the removed children were [...]

This story kind of skipped under the radar of the merriness of Christmas. Whether intentional or not I have no idea but the results are quite damning. The problems of entitlement, longstanding welfare agreements, bungling administration costs of anything Aboriginal related and the all to eager government policy to continue wasting money on failed Aboriginal [...]

On September the 29th 2009, Elaine and Datjirri Wunungmurra spent the day drinking at the Walkabout Hotel in Gove, Northern Territory. Following a day of drinking the two retired to a local drinking spot where a drunken argument then broke out. During the argument Datjirri first took a stick and smashed it over his sister-in-law’s [...]

Simply put, Melbourne hasn’t had a decent run with landmarks for the better part of a decade. Federation Square is a jumbled mess of architectural vomit, nobody visits the docklands, the Southern Star Oberservation Wheel was a colossal failure and that giant space near the Yarra river, Birradungarunga-something-ma is nothing to write home about. Our [...]

For the most part, the debate on whether Australia should become a republic or not seems to have largely died. In the lead up to recent election, Julia Gillard stated it wasn’t something she wasn’t prepared to bring up until the current Queen died and Tony Abbott has declared himself a staunch Monarchist. Regardless of [...]

Whilst Australian’s wonder what the latest episode of the Lara Bingle show will feature, whether or not Mathew Johns return to tv is a success or not, or if our miners are having their sexual needs met, tens if not hundreds of untold child abuse stories unfold each and every day all over Australia. It’s [...]

The absurdity of the blanket acknowledgement of traditional Aboriginal land owners first hit me back in high school. I was in year seven from memory and it was an assembly marking the establishment of the school. To kick start the assembly an acknowledgement was made to the traditional Aboriginal land owners of the area. As [...]

The issue of Aboriginal child welfare is always going to be a difficult one. On one side of the fence you have the traditionalists. People who place Aboriginal heritage above all else, including the welfare of the child in question. On the other are people like me who, and you don’t have to be a [...]