Room service or the nation’s service? It’s a tough time to be a leader
By Angus SmithThe government was armed with rhetoric for a climate change debate, but not prepared for any disaster a changed climate brings.
Opinion
Heading in the ‘Rights’ Direction: Animal Rights and Welfare
By Eliah CastielloEliah Castiello explores the distinction between animal rights and animal welfare, and how our understanding of human rights affects how we treat animals.
Waning Hope: A Refugee’s Response to the Repeal of Medevac
By Shamindan KanapathiThrough its repeal of the medevac legislation, Australia has taken our future and made it our demise, writes Shamindan Kanapadhi.
Voluntary Assisted Dying: A matter of life and death?
By Janelle KohIn light of the voluntary assisted dying bill currently before the Western Australian parliament, Janelle Koh considers voluntary assisted dying from a critical rights perspective, and queries whether a right to a good death may operate with unequal effect upon minority populations.
How to Teach History: What Australia can learn from Pakistan
By Danish KhanDanish Khan considers the differences between the teaching of indigenous history in Australia and in Pakistan.
Just Keep Scrolling: On attention, distraction, and human rights
By Janelle KohJanelle Koh considers the distracting influence of social media on our daily lives, and the implications it has for human rights.
Encountering modern slavery in Lebanon
By Anika BasetAnika Baset writes about confronting evidence of racial violence, modern slavery, and domestic servitude in Lebanon.
Weaponised weathers: heat, Don Dale, and ‘everything-ist’ prison abolition
By Stella MaynardOppressive heat, humidity and poor ventilation: how Australia’s carceral system weaponises more-than-human forces, like the weather.
Stripping children of dignity
By Monique HurleyThousands of humiliating strip searches have been carried out on young children in our criminal justice system: is this a dignified practice?
On rejecting the dehumanisation of housing
By Claire GaynorBetween the free market economy, negative gearing and Airbnb, have we forgotten what we built houses for in the first place? As a place to rest, eat, enjoy our lives and raise families.
Activism across the generations
By Nasuha NasserNasuha Nasser speaks to three activists: Clare, Chris and Sobur, about the hopes they hold for a fairer and rights-respecting Australia.