
The boat
With our nation’s political discourse so replete with silence, secrecy and spin, how can we begin to search for truth about “the boats”?
With our nation’s political discourse so replete with silence, secrecy and spin, how can we begin to search for truth about “the boats”?
What’s the difference between bearing witness to an atrocity and being a voyeur?
Michael Green writes about his neighbour “Danny”, who instead of a house, has a street to call home.
New poetry by Jessica Yu.
Subtle forms of racism often go unnoticed, but they are no less harmful. Maxine Beneba Clarke on the insidiousness of everyday racism.
Sara El Sayed’s short fiction piece “Stained” is a reflection on difference, belonging and pride.
Alice Pung returns to Braybook, the suburb in Melbourne’s West where she grew up, to explore how youth education can break the cyclic nature of poverty and disadvantage.
Tony Page, who worked in South-East Asia for 20 years, offers three poems, one each reflecting on historical human rights issues in Vietnam, Burma and Thailand
Qi Bingdu offers a poem on the labels that dehumanise asylum seekers
Mel Jepson offers a poem on Australia’s fixation with “consumers and acceptable guests”
Jason Maxwell offers a provocative poem on money, rights, priorities and conspiracy
What happens at the human level when the machinery of government makes a distant, impersonal decision?