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 […]
Social Justice
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 […]
A New Definition – Pork-barrelling in the Cashless Debit Card Trial Zones
By The Say NO Seven Most Australians have a basic understanding and uncomfortable acceptance that a certain amount of pork barrelling goes on within political […]
Double Pronged Approach – Time and Empathy, Bitterness and Hate, Education and Awareness
By Cally Jetta I love when the kids are asleep and my hubby and I finally have the chance to really talk and get into […]
Fascism: History Repeats, Again
By Loz Lawrey “… It was 1941. Europe was in flames. Spain had fallen to a ruthless dictator. Hitler had rolled over the continent, reduced […]
Yippee! International Women’s Day
By Kyran O’Dwyer Once a year, we have global recognition of a ‘cause’, whereby ‘World Leaders’ and ‘Very Important People’ get together at breakfasts, dinners […]
How to reject division
By Loz Lawrey “Loz, you have no class”, she said. Shocked and confused, I felt my eyebrows arching. Was my sister-in-law’s mother insulting me? “No”, […]
The vilification of Australia’s most vulnerable people
By Tina Clausen What makes some think people on Centrelink benefits are more likely to over-spend on non-essential items than other people in society, and […]