the air was full
of silences,
sheep like
cardboard cut-outs,
tattered & abandoned,
trains creeping
guiltily
across an empty plain,
onshore
the thack of leather
on cricket bats,
a Prime Minister
cheerily
tweeting scores,
offshore
the crack of clubs
on flesh,
and,
while no one was watching
the ship of state
drifted
towards the rocks.
Human rights activists are urging Cricket Australia to boycott its February match against Afghanistan, to take a stand against the Taliban’s erasure of Afghan women’s rights.
The Victorian Premier’s so-called ‘Tough Bail Laws’ is regressive reform that represents weak-willed politics, says Monique Hurley and Dr Emma Russell.
Myanmar is in crisis and the international community isn’t stepping up to help. What should Australia’s obligations be?
Ko Ko Aung explains.