This quote that forms the title of this article is from Adam Smith, the Philosopher and Economist who is considered to be the Father of Modern Economics. He is best known for two classic works: “The ...

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This is sophisticated and powerful poetry without the rhetorical embellishment that characterizes so much of what passes as poetry. This is poetry that is purposeful, direct, simple and with a ...

Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett said that he would consider the proposition of subsidising the wages of former prisoners if it meant that it would reduce the likelihood of them re-offending.

As Blackfella’s we learn to read signs in the landscape when the Burruguu-ngayi-li (Dreaming…) directly impacts with the physical world. There are devastating consequences when we forget who we are as ...

Al Jazeera’s 101 East – As the Black Lives Matter movement spreads across the globe, we investigate Australia’s Indigenous incarceration crisis. Across Australia, Indigenous people are ...

It has been well recognised that Indigenous communities are over policed, and the impact of this on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women was highlighted by the 2001 report by the Aboriginal ...

Australia was founded on bloodshed, and its historical identity and its origins-of-thinking include slavery (blackbirding), social engineering, apartheid, racism. To deny all of this is to keep ...

Two and half years ago Noongar Kevin Spratt’s tragic maltreatment at the hands of police officers made headlines around the world. CCTV footage caught out police officers who indiscriminately tasered ...

is to wake up, to understand what is happening, to be of service to a larger whole.—Manu Aluli-Meyer (2013, p. 148) World views create worlds… what sets the modern (worldview) apart is its fundamental ...

Many is the time that I have been asked the question “Are Australians racist? I have consistently taken the view that I would much rather not call individuals racist because all that that does is get ...

When you tell me ‘you don’t look Aboriginal’, you are denying that I am Aboriginal. To deny that I am Aboriginal is to deny that my grandmother was taken by welfare because she was Aboriginal, by the ...