The confounding number of Indigenous deaths in custody should be a cause for outrage. But compared to the blazing streets of Baltimore, Australia’s response to deaths in custody has been virtually non-existent.
Graduates get experience and businesses secure fresh talent at no cost, but is this really a win-win situation?
The Australian government’s refugee deal with a poverty-stricken country is burden shifting, and not a true regional solution for asylum seekers, writes Billy Tai.
Missionary, the White Saviour and Angelina Jolie – goodbye to figures of the past. Ann Deslandes writes about the future of human rights work that will be critical, generative and that won’t take itself too seriously.
We are still uncovering the true effects of the removal and institutionalisation of Aboriginal children, writes Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service’s Alister McKeich.
After a week of tragedy and heartbreak, Senthorun Raj wonders how our emotions shape how we understand and respond to injustice.
Right Now columnist Sylvie Leber looks at the extraordinary history of Aboriginal music and activism – a history that the recent defunding of the Deadly Awards threatens to erase.
Dario Mujkic highlights the importance of employees’ rights to freely discuss workplace grievances outside of their job, and how employers’ attempts to silence such voices can be countered.
Australia has recently begun to address the long-overlooked problem of domestic violence. But the specific needs of domestic violence’s culturally and linguistically diverse victims is going largely unnoticed.
Forced sterilisation is the State’s way of discriminating against and controlling the fertility of the most vulnerable the world over; namely, marginalised women.
How is the right to be a parent affected by sexuality? Stephen Page discusses the legal challenges faced by LBGT intended parents.
When does a basic human right become a “lifestyle choice” and who gets to define what those are?