Senator Pat Dodson was Australia's first Aboriginal Catholic priest and then "the father of reconciliation", but he is apprehensive as he prepares to address the Senate for the first time. Patrick Dodson looks intently into the lens, his brown eyes focused
Australia's legal system has become a "feared and despised processing plant" for most Aboriginal people, propelling the most vulnerable and disadvantaged towards a "broken, bleak future", according to Patrick Dodson. Lamenting that the situation has deteriorated since the landmark royal commission
Paddy Dodson might have been just another scared kid on his first night at boarding school
The Sydney Peace Foundation is urgently looking for one or two interns to join our small team for the next four months. This is an opportunity to gain substantial experience with organising and coordinating events, marketing, exposure to public relations, social
By Dr Vandana Shiva, recipient of the 2010 Sydney Peace Prize We live in times whose signature is violence – from the killing of 134 innocent children in Peshawar to the massacres of 2000 by Boko Haram in Nigeria and the 17 in Paris just in the
We are on the brink of military action in Iraq and close to signing off on Syria as well, led by Field Marshall Abbott, all aquiver with the thought of the political possibilities. We have just had the UN International Day
What do The Beatles, Bono, Bob Geldof, Billy Bragg, Billie Holiday, Ben Harper, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, and Barenboim all have in common—in addition to being musicians and starting with “B”? They have each contributed to peace with justice, and
"The situation in Sri Lanka today poses grave risks to human rights and human security. [
“The Art of Peace”: It’s time for an artist to win the Sydney Peace Prize Sun Tzu’s ancient Chinese military treatise “The Art of War”has been a manual for war makers for centuries. With the centenary of the First World War upon us,
Yesterday the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) released their annual ranking of 162 countries' in terms of their peacefulness—the Global Peace Index (GPI). The GPI is in its eighth year running, and for the seventh year running they have