A resounding vote for division
By Loz Lawrey Well, Australia voted NO. I saw it coming but I’m still gutted. Really? Is this really our best? What possible reason could […]
Your Say
I’m finding the Yes response to the disaster underwhelming
By Anthony Haritos On the day Australia said “NO” to the planet’s oldest surviving First Nations people, we all must have a story to mark […]
A Losing Voice: The Fall of an Indigenous Referendum Measure
Even before October 14, The Voice, or, to describe in full, the Referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament, was in […]
What did the NO vote actually achieve?
Today, we know the result of this referendum that has hung over us for what seems an eternity. According to the polls and the media […]
Why do Australian referendums usually fail?
By Allan Richardson Unless Erwin Schrödinger and Dr Anne Twomey have secretly colluded, I’m not a constitutional lawyer. Nor am I even a conveyancing clerk. […]
Heart To Heart
Remember that feeling inside when the Matilda’s inspired the nation? Many of us didn’t even know the rules, everyone did by the end of it […]
Joey’s story
By Joey King I desperately need help. The Project will be sharing my story Friday, 6 October at 7pm. Please watch it and share about […]
Manus, Nauru way worse than Pezzullo texts
By Jane Salmon All the hyperbole about Pezzullo’s fall from grace is annoying. Everything Pezzullo oversaw on Manus and Nauru was actually worse than […]
From my “To read” list comes nothing but doom and gloom and a little ray of sunshine
Now, how do I tackle this? Do I use the information in my “To read” list as source material for another article, or do I […]
On the day of Murdoch’s retirement…
By Anthony Haritos Yes, we were cheap. And we were very nasty. Yes, we did fuck your mind over. Yes, it’s true; we did twist […]
It was all a con
By Andrew Klein I remember that as a teenager we had to sing ‘God save the Queen’. This was done at school, in cinemas and […]
An open letter to Pauline Hanson
Dear Pauline, I’ve read that you have been confused and outraged that the number of people laying claim to Aboriginal ancestry is increasing. If you […]
Hey, teacher, leave them dudes alone!
By Allan Richardson Planksy, a highly experienced fitter, turner and boilermaker, cracked his head on the hoist after forgetting to let go a runaway rattle […]
I’m doing it for Jake
It had been a long, hot day by the time Jake and I arrived at a far north SA town where we were to stay […]
And I will walk 500 miles … and I will walk 500 more!
By Jane Salmon Nope. Sod that. Today I heard of two Tamil women living with immigration uncertainty who were ringing around their community at dawn […]