The Rohingyans: a people in fearful limbo despite 70 years of human rights
By Claire RogersMonday 10 December marks Human Rights Day, a day to ask the question: how can we help to uphold the rights of the most vulnerable?
Opinion
Proposed change to Migration Act opens the way to deporting children
By Dave Martin and Rebecca PowellThe question is whether this is for the protection of the community or simply to expand Ministerial power to cancel visas for allegedly gang-related activity.
Right Now x Zenith Collective – Part VI: Premature by Rashaad Ernesto Green
By Zenith Collective and Charlotte DaraioThe conversation around human rights comes in all forms, in this six-part series we explore that conversation through the lens of film.
Politics, media sensationalism and the so-called African gang crisis
By Francis DengThe demonisation of the Sudanese community is not a new phenomenon, it is a trend. Francis Deng reflects on the unseen impacts of media sensationalism.
#MeToo and human rights language in the social media era
By Kat GeorgeHow a social media movement gave victims, activists and communities a language to voice their lived experience without the need for legalese.
Write to publish?
By Sian VateWriting plays a subversive role in our political movements, yet, are we growing ambivalent or disengaged because of information-fatigue?
Where do you draw the line? Reconsidering safety zones at Victorian abortion clinics
By Zoya PatelZoya Patel reflects on the state of women’s reproductive rights in Victoria, where a new case regarding safe access zones is heading for the High Court.
The big, burly ‘white to assembly’: the public angst of white men in 2018
By Madison Griffiths and Sam BiddleThe right to protest is an abstract freedom, one that saw Fed Square swarmed by March for Men protesters. Madison Griffiths and Sam Biddle watched on.
Thalayan Ngirang-ngan (My Mother Tongue)
By Joel WrightThis represents a profound difference to written languages, in that you could only learn an Aboriginal language by living in the lands and community, where and to whom the languages belongs. This nexus of language and culture is holistic, as every utterance defines individual and communal, spiritual and practical knowledge of place and law. It […]
Who has the right to associate with their community?
By Kamna MuddagouniIt might be said that the law recognises that being able to spend time with those who you call your own is important to one feeling human. But what does this protection mean if police are issued broad powers to determine who is a suitable person for you to associate with?
Could sky-high house prices lead to a new uprising in Hong Kong?
By Angus SmithCan you imagine living in the world’s least affordable city to buy a home? Here’s what the residents think about the unfolding housing crisis in Hong Kong.