Indigenous Australian Communities

5 Apr 2007

It has been rated the most dangerous place in the world outside a war zone, a tropical island ravaged by alcoholism, riots and racial tension.

Vapourless fuel wins petrol-sniffing war

30 Mar 2007

It reduced scores of Aborigines to wheelchair-bound zombies, but the scourge of petrol sniffing appears to have at last receded thanks to the introduction of a non-sniffable fuel across Australia'...

Suicide epidemic hits town

9 Oct 1996

The young people of the predominantly Aboriginal town of Yarrabah in far northern Queensland are making a drastic exit from a numbing cycle of poverty, violence and poor health. They are killing...

Welcome, any day you like on Thursday

21 Aug 1993

''IT'S not your typical tropical paradise,'' the only person I knew who had ever been to Thursday Island, Australia's northern-most point, told me.

Beer looting

2 Jan 1993

BRISBANE: Queensland police searched homes in an isolated Aboriginal community for 150,000 cans of beer looted from a store on New Year's Eve by a mob of 500 armed with axes and guns. No one was...