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Australians Abandoned in India – the latest victims of political expedience
By Esther Rockett
Are Criminal Laws Enough to Protect Victims of Forced Marriage in Australia?
By Famida ZanaForced marriage remains one of the most complex and poorly understood human rights and policy issues encountered by Australia in recent years.
Review – Renewal: Five Paths to a Fairer Australia
By Georgia CerniSophie Cousins’ book Renewal: Five Paths to a Fairer Australia is, in many respects, a proposal. For Cousins, the COVID-19 pandemic has provided Australians with an opportunity to reconsider the ways our society currently functions. Cousins aptly makes her case – while in some ways the pandemic reinforced burgeoning inequalities, it also presented us the chance to apply collectivist values to solve systemic problems.
Review – A Secret Australia Revealed by the Wikileaks Exposés
By Samaya BoromThe book A Secret Australia Revealed by the Wikileaks Exposés, edited by Felicity Ruby and Peter Cronau, was released at the time where Julian Assange, creator of Wikileaks, was awaiting his extradition trial to the United States for the publication of classified and sensitive information relating to the War on Terror.
“This man is not going to fuck with me” – A Review of Witness by Louise Milligan
By Amy WaltersWitness reveals how ill-equipped the criminal justice system is to serve the interests of victims of sexual assault.
Are We There Yet? Five Human Rights Questions After Our Mental Health Royal Commission
By Simon KatterlContributors
Fashion & Feminism: The Revolutionary Mary Quant
By Gabrielle EbelingMary Quant: Fashion Revolutionary is an effervescent celebration of the designer’s use of fashion to manifest new attitudes, ideas and ambitions in the post-war landscape.
“The proposal for an Indigenous voice to Parliament unites Australians because it’s a fair and modest idea. It’s a concept based on inclusive dialogue and partnership in Indigenous affairs – itself a unifying concept.”
Shireen Morris, McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow at Melbourne University Law School