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 ...

The song Kingdom of Gold appears on Mark Knopfler’s seventh solo album, the double CD set titled Privateering (released in 2012). Knopfler’s song is in the great tradition of a Celtic ballad; the ...

It’s the weekend and I am at Nudgee College to watch my son, Ngiyaani play his first game of Rugby Union for the school. He is there on both an equity and rugby scholarship after making the Brisbane ...

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, ...

The West Australian newspaper this morning greeted us with this headline –“Racist Slurs spark kids’ Footy brawl”. Details are here: It got me thinking again about how far we have come in our ...

I want to introduce you to the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index. Here’s a little blurb about it which is relatively self explanatory: “The WJP Rule of Law Index relies on over 100,000 household ...

It’s been many a year since I reviewed my position in so far as an Australian republic is concerned. I know that from my arrival here 43 years ago I have always felt extremely uneasy about the fact ...

It was once claimed with great pride Australia was a classless society. I don’t know if such a claim was ever true when considering Black Australia but considering events over the last week, it’s ...

As we celebrate the courage and the achievements of Eddie Koiki Mabo we all walk in his determined footsteps in our hope for a brighter future. The Mabo family asked me to paint you a picture of how ...

Throughout our world around 220 million children work – fulltime, and therefore they do not go to school. They have little time left for recreational activities. Their developmental form and content ...