Dwayne is a teenager from remote northwest Australia. If you find his community where it rests just outside the regional town of Kununurra and take a right at the giant crocodile that greets you with its fixed expression at the entry to the town from the...
It was Jack Trust’s funeral. Several hundred people were filling the community hall in the east Kimberley community of Wuggubun. Many had known the Indigenous leader personally, while others had driven out bush to show solidarity and support for the Trust family, which included Ian...
Watching kids of the East Kimberley go about their life in the community, one gets a rather uncomfortable front-row seat to the wide disparity that exists between aspiration and opportunity. One might add another element into the pool, that ethereal creature: potential. It’s there if...
It wasn’t long ago that Prime Minister Turnbull, like other Coalition leaders before him, expressed a commitment to working with Indigenous people, not doing things to them. The design and implementation of the current Community Development Program reveals his complete failure in delivering on that...