I believe myself to have been an informed and engaged voter over several federal election cycles. As Election 2016 looms, I remain in the grip of despair about yet another two horse race between the ...

Over the last two weeks there is an announcement that appears to have slipped under the radar of most advocates in the areas that The Stringer is involved with. This is the announcement that Ms Yvonne ...

I was one of the very fortunate few to attend the event “An evening with Cornel West” in Perth recently. The event was billed as follows: “Dr Cornel West has been recognised, rightly, as one of the ...

We, as a nation, have always prided ourselves on the quality, accessibility and affordability of our health system. Particularly when we make comparisons to the cost of the system in places such as ...

Suicide among Aboriginal peoples is disproportionately higher when compared to non-Aboriginal peoples. Western Australia and the Northern Territory have the most horrific suicide rates. Recently, ...

We know how much you like reading the news on The Stringer website. If you’d like to help us continue to shine a massive great big flood lamp on the political injustices of this country and, indeed, ...

Juvenile homes remain an opaque and closed world, with little accountability and unmonitored performance. Judicial reforms pertaining to these have been relegated to the bottom rung. Is it because ...

The Northern Territory prison system, challenged only by Western Australia’s, is in disarray, with a tragic record in deaths in custody according to the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC).

The New South Wales Aboriginal Legal Services has stated that Government funding has not been renewed for the 24-hour legal advice and RU OK phone line which has prevented Aboriginal deaths in police ...

Former Government worker for the NSW Department of Families and Communities, Debra Swan on National Sorry Day joined one of the 15 protests happening across the continent to not only remember the ...

In recent years Australians have been learning that suicide is a leading cause of death and they have been discovering the hidden toll of suicide and of its impacts on those left behind. However what ...

In March of this year I wrote about the fact that the Auxiliary shop at Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital was selling golliwogs which would be considered distasteful and racist. All of the details of the ...