Right Now
Right Now’s 2017 MIFF picks
By Anika Baset, Samaya Borom, Rachael Imam, Vanessa McQuarrie and Pia White
Augustin Trebuchon
By Gary SmithWriter Gary Smith looks at the price of conflict and war.
Call them what they are: Australia’s concentration camps
By Anthony LevinOffshore detention. For two decades, no two words have plagued Australian politics as doggedly as these. Anthony Levin draws a disturbingly accurate picture Australia’s offshore detention centres that we may or may not be ready for.
The price of privacy
By Roj AmediGovernment policy increasingly defines the limits of the right to privacy, excluding marginalised socio-economic groups from its protection.
Polite racism
By Alys JacksonWriter and poet Alys Jackson questions the more subtle forms of racism.
Post-war resilience in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka
By Ali MCContributors
Catholic clergy and child sex abuse
By Anne ManneAnne Manne examines the culture within the Catholic Church that allowed the ongoing sexual abuse of children.
“Back in those days, they were entitled to think of paedophilia as simply a sin you could repent of.”
Cardinal George Pell