KIRIBATI REPORT: CHILDREN A new report has found poverty and hardship is taking its toll on the children of Kiribati who make up nearly half the country's population. The report commissioned by the Kiribati government and UNICEF found nearly 15 percent of under five year olds are underweight and only…

Challenging ideas about indigenous Australia Editorial Sydney Morning Herald November 20, 2014   Australia remains blighted by ignorance of, racism towards and disadvantage endured by its indigenous people. Photo: Ray Martin The most powerful leaders on earth have gone and the global gaze has shifted away from Australia, leaving us…

NOEL PEARSON: GOUGH WHITLAM FUNERAL Oration by Noel Pearson   Paul Keating said the reward for public life is public progress. For one born estranged from the nation's citizenship, into a humble family of a marginal people striving in the teeth of poverty and discrimination, today it is assuredly no…

VISIT TO KIRIBATI Claude Mostowik MSC 26 October Dear friends, I am off to Kiribati today for about a week or so with a group of people connected with the Pacific Calling Partnership at the Edmund Rice Centre for Justice and Community Education.I just wanted to share with you some…