As part of the Australian Government’s Pacific Solution, 450 asylum seekers, including more than 100 children are held on the island of Nauru. Varying stories

Dr Bill Jonas, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, launches his annual Social Justice Report, describing the incarceration rates for Indigenous women a

Australia and Indonesia co-host a second regional conference on people smuggling in Bali. Both countries aim to exchange information on lost travel documents and the

Ninety percent of the world’s 6000 languages face extinction within the century including many Australian Aboriginal languages. UNESCO gathers experts from around the world at

Across Australia a number of fires are lit in detention centres. The Immigration Department removes 22 people it accuses of involvement in the fires to

Hundreds of thousands of protesters in major cities around the world, including Australia, participate in street marches to demonstrate their anger over military preparations to

The US along with Great Britain and Australia makes military preparations for the increasingly imminent attack on Iraq. The French Government remains opposed to the

The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission launches a website forum posing the question of whether Muslims could constitute an ethnic group. The forum looks

Following September 11, 2001, the Australian Arabic Council and others advocate the elimination of ethnic descriptors. The Council claims that media reports using descriptors of

A study on racism by Dr Rivka Witenberg, a lecturer in psychology at Melbourne University, finds that 14 to 16 year old teenage males are

New Italy, a flourishing farming community established in 1882 by about 200 refugees from the Veneto region in Italy, is placed on the NSW Heritage

The Native Title Studies Centre is set up at James Cook Centre University in Cairns providing advice about the way the native title regime works

The Gumbaynggir dictionary is published by the people of the Muurbay Aboriginal Language Centre in the hope of ensuring the language’s long -term survival. The

The High Court rejects an appeal by Lorna Cubillo and Peter Gunner against the Federal Court’s decision to deny the right of those removed from

The Immigration, Aboriginal and Multicultural Affairs Minister meets with the Northern Land Council, fishing representatives in Darwin and the Northern Territory Minerals Council to discuss