It’s just one of those days I feel ashamed to be Australian
What more can I say? Children are already dying under the Trump Administration’s watch. Children are being separated from their parents at the US/Mexico border. […]
Social Justice
Adding to suffering: reducing food
By Shamindan Kanapathi On Manus Island there are three camps that are run by PNG immigration and Australian Border Force. East Lorengau Transit Centre and […]
What a good boy am I? So what’s the go here?
Can someone, anyone tell me what makes Hakeem Al-Raibi’s case so special and different from say Behrouz Boochani or any of the other refugees on […]
Seventy Years of Aspiration: Rights Charters and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
It was a gathering of activists masquerading as deep thinkers. Ostensibly, it was to celebrate seven decades of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, one devised […]
If only Dutton and Morrison weren’t so mean
In June 2018, when the world broke into uniform outrage over the forced separation and detention of illegal migrant children in the United States, Australia’s […]
The children, the children!
Twenty-five minutes into last Monday night’s QandA, a question was asked about the refugees and specifically the children, stuck in the Guantanamos that Australia had […]
Evacuating Nauru: Médecins Sans Frontières and Australia’s Refugee Dilemma
It is an organisation not without its problems. Conceived in the heat of idealism, and promoted as the vanguard of medical rescue and human rights […]
Access to mental health care services under threat
‘Enough is Enough’…All consumers and psychologists in Australia deserve equal access to Medicare! The following is reproduced with permission from the Australian Psychologists’ community-run petition […]
Australian Psychological Society Medicare review submission betrays members and clients
The Australian Psychological Society’s (APS) submission to the Commonwealth Government’s Medicare Benefit Schedule (MBS) review is an astonishing attempt to restrict access to psychology services […]
50 Offshore Protests Occurred Around the Country to Mark the 5th Anniversary of the “Pacific Solution”
Media Release The protests in the week ending 22/7/18 (involving over 90 groups) rolled across regional Australia and mostly focused on MP offices. Rural Australians […]
It`s Time … To Raise Newstart!
By Christian Marx Australia is rapidly going down the toilet. Stagnating wages, chronic unemployment and increasingly tenuous work has resulted in a lower standard of […]
Power over the destiny of others is never given up easily
By Tony Andrews I’m coming from a perspective of almost complete ignorance about First Nation Australian people. Land rights, native title, pan-Aboriginal relationships, history, culture, […]
Do unto refugees
By John Haly Deterring and imprisoning asylum seekers is gaining popularity in the western world. Punishment by separation of children from parents now has occurred […]
Activists Call for Mass Medical Evacuation from Manus, Nauru
Media Release It is worrying that the latest death on Nauru and the circumstances relating to this event have not been broadcast by the ABC*. […]
7 ways Aboriginals are still being robbed in Australia today
By Welcome to Country We always hear from non-Indigenous people that we get so many benefits. In reality, the benefits are few and far between and […]