Looking Beyond Australia’s Debate About Asylum To Better Regional Answers For Refugees
Paul Power, CEO of the Refugee Council of Australia, offers 10 concrete steps that could be taken to improve Australia’s asylum seeker policy.
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Why is Australia’s Immigration Minister Attacking the Refugee Convention?
Dana Affleck responds to the Minister for Immigration’s attack on the Refugee Convention, explaining what might have been thought obvious – why it is important to protect people fleeing persecution.
Policing The Body: Women’s health and reproductive rights
Marta Skrabacz considers reproductive rights as a women’s health issue, and recent developments in legislation regulating women’s bodies.
Thankyou for disengaging
Sam Ryan asks whether some of the most celebrated, creative responses to raising funds to address global inequality are actually disarming powerful pockets of consumers and voters.
Ian Thorpe, Sexuality and the Process of Discovering One’s Identity
In light of Australian Olympic champion Ian Thorpe’s “coming out”, Tamara Cherny suggests that “being yourself”, particularly in a society less than accepting of diversity, is easier said than done.
The Erosion of Health in Detention (and the Erosion of Oversight)
Ben Pynt explains that long-term detention – now the rule rather than the exception in Australian asylum seeker policy – causes inevitable ill effects on health, and that the oversight of the treatment of asylum seekers is becoming practically impossible.
Ondru presents Voiceless Journeys
Exhibited at the Global Ideas Forum this weekend, Voiceless Journeys is a project that depicts the stories of 101 people who left their countries as a result of conflict or internal problems to come to Australia.
Why the Bikie Laws should concern us all
Jack Maxwell explains that new laws aimed at bikie groups are a threat to the rights of all citizens, and what legal means might resist them
What’s bringing Melbourne’s Ethiopian community to the streets?
Hector Sharp explains why members of Melbourne’s Ethopian community recently picketed the British consulate on Collins Street, and what it has to do with the disappearance of activist Andargachew Tsige
Watershed? Indigenous Rights and the Water Bill Exposure Draft
Will Mooney on the Water Bill Exposure Draft and how the Victorian Government has left Indigenous rights off the water reform agenda.
Rich soil: Can Indigenous land rights and Australia’s economic interests coexist?
Though the Australian government’s economic desires have contrasted sharply with Indigenous land ownership in the past, Christine Todd argues the two are not mutually exclusive and suggests the economic development of the land should be carried out by the Indigenous population.
Does Australia need tougher cyberbullying legislation?
Nadia Wu considers whether tougher laws are needed to combat the pervasive and insidious phenomenon of cyberbullying.