Right Now
Fighting for justice and dignity: Interview with Behrouz Boochani
By Roselina PressPathway to freedom – the end of indefinite detention in Australia
Roselina Press in conversation with Josephine LangbienRight Now interviews Josephine Langbien, Senior Lawyer at the Human Rights Law Centre, about the significance of the High Court’s ruling on indefinite detention, and the Australian Government’s response.
The demolition of Melbourne’s public housing towers and public housing tenants’ right to housing
By Hannah FigueroaThe Victorian Government has plans to demolish all 44 public housing towers across Melbourne by 2051. But are the human rights of public housing tenants being properly considered?
Tyberius Larking on Karst as a Metaphor for Solidarity
By Tyberius LarkingTyberius Larking’s journey of his own understanding of solidarity is remarkably timely and is beautifully distilled in reflections of his Mirning Country.
Editor’s note on Gaza
By Roselina PressCivilians should never be a target of war, terrorism or violence. The international community, including the Australian Government, must call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.
Labor’s Mandatory Sentencing Problem
By Michael StantonContributors
Review: ‘The Palestine Laboratory’
By Samaya Argüello‘The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology Occupation Around the World’ is a must read for those wanting to understand how the oppression of Palestinians is intertwined with the export of military technologies worldwide.
“Pipelining children into prisons does not make communities safer – it only serves to undermine it and destroy children’s lives in the process.”
Monique Hurley, Human Rights Law Centre