Stones
Jordan Roux questions the death penalty through the last words of 21 Texan inmates executed by lethal injection.
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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.
Redemption
Poet Sanam Sharma explores the meaning of democracy when religious and communal segregation is used within communities.
David
Poet Andy Jackson writes about bodily difference and in his latest collection he explores Marfan Syndrome through a series of portraits.
What Water Brings
West Australian award-winning writer and educator Reneé Pettitt-Schipp writes about her experience teaching English and Art to asylum seeker and islander students on Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands from 2011 to 2014.
Vacation During Wartime
Poet Vivienne Mohan considers the impact of war on everyday lives.
Death Trap Tower
Mark Marusic reflects on the Grenfell Tower fire in this poem Death Trap Tower.
Manus
In this poem writer John Bartlett considers the plight of the asylum seekers on Manus Island detention centre.
City of Sirens
Performance poet Saoirse Nash reflects on inequality and housing affordability in her latest piece, City of Sirens.
Civic marches
Everything changes – In this poem Edward Caruso considers the importance of speaking up.
Another Hour Passes
Trauma counsellor and writer Dinesha Perera evokes the human toll of detention in her short story ‘Another Hour Passes’.
Vocabulary for migrants
Sanam Sharma considers the effect of everyday racism on the next generation.
Drifting
This creative work argues that it’s time to change the violence of offshore detention.