Across Indigenous Australia, innovation is occurring locally, under the radar of government policies and support. We can look to this innovation and stop fixating on finding the elusive policy solution.

In some Indigenous communities, the ratio of programs to people served is possibly the highest in the world. Somehow, for many, Closing the Gap remains an elusive goal. A rethink is needed.

Income management was first applied to Indigenous communities before being implemented more widely. The Healthy Welfare Card policy appears to be on this same path.

Last week, the Stronger Futures legislation passed through the senate - laws which extend the Northern Territory Intervention for another 10 years. The relative merits and faults of the legislation aside…

Australia has been tightening the border between PNG and the Torres Strait Islands in recent years, exacerbating poverty and the spread of tuberculosis in villages that depend on cross-border trade.

PNG is enjoying unfamiliar global attention after the APEC summit earlier this week, and the rivalry between the United States and China to exert influence in the region.

Is there now so much information being shown on football broadcast screens that it’s time for another announcerless game?

A scholar who travels regularly to the US-Mexico border finds ecological links and a community on the other side that welcomes American visitors.

Mitch McConnell gets a win, and the Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare will be debated in the Senate.

Evidence suggests that most Americans wildly underestimate the amount of sodium in their food.