No singular revelation
Subtle forms of racism often go unnoticed, but they are no less harmful. Maxine Beneba Clarke on the insidiousness of everyday racism.
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“University is Not Seen as a Black Space”
Dr Katelyn Barney on the need to create pathways for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students into Research Higher Degrees.
Stained
Sara El Sayed’s short fiction piece “Stained” is a reflection on difference, belonging and pride.
Back to school
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.
Three Poems: Migrant Construction Worker, By the Burmese Border, Vietnamese Refugee
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
Refugee
Qi Bingdu offers a poem on the labels that dehumanise asylum seekers
Manus Island
Mel Jepson offers a poem on Australia’s fixation with “consumers and acceptable guests”
Only the skull as the video game ends the wall…
Jason Maxwell offers a provocative poem on money, rights, priorities and conspiracy
The machinery of government: on being a person in the turning cogs of aid
What happens at the human level when the machinery of government makes a distant, impersonal decision?
Ongoing Commitments
Alexandra Scale reminds us that the “shipping of souls” to offshore detention centres creates physical and emotional scars for thousands of asylum seekers.
“Chocolate Fix” and “Two Dollars a Day”
Lizz Murphy offers two poems on child labour – from harvesting cocoa to mining gold
Akinyi Martha (full stop)
This story by Filipa Bellette won Right Now’s Fiction Competition, judged by Anna Funder and Tony Birch.
No Asians. Your Desire
This striking poem by Jake Dennis won the Right Now Poetry Competition, judged by Maxine Beneba-Clarke, Amanda Anastasi and Benjamin Solah.