The Latest Breaking News from Robert Tickner

‘That bridge almost broke our mob’: the Ngarrindjeri warrior women and the fight to preserve sacred knowledge

A new documentary tells the story of the Hindmarsh Island Bridge affair and the clash between cultural rights and property developers’ ambitions

The Guardian - AU · Oct 16

Australian governments ‘turning their backs’ on soaring Indigenous incarceration, former minister says

Robert Tickner says there are ‘no excuses for the failure to implement’ recommendations from the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody

The Guardian - AU · Oct 31, 2025

The Hindmarsh Island bridge case is being deliberately misremembered in a new fight over the Blayney goldmine

Twenty-three years after the federal court found there was no reason to think ‘secret women’s business’ was a lie, the claim that it was is still being used to discredit what Aboriginal people say about their culture

The Guardian - AU · Oct 23, 2024

Australia's Albanese banks on working class brand to restore Labor to power

When Australian opposition leader Anthony Albanese was only 12 years old, he says, he helped to organise a rent strike that kept his mother's public housing property from being sold off to developers.

Reuters · May 9, 2022

Justice Reform Initiative wants prison reform to support vulnerable community members

The Justice Reform Initiative wants more money spent on helping vulnerable people with issues such as employment, mental health and housing and less for locking those same people up.

ABC News · Mar 23, 2022