Right Now
Australians Abandoned in India – the latest victims of political expedience
By Esther Rockett
In the Eye of the Storm: Volunteers and Australia’s Response to the HIV/AIDS Crisis
By NGTo read In the Eye of the Storm: Volunteers and Australia’s Response to the HIV/AIDS Crisis during another global health crisis is a strange experience. One is made aware of the disparities in the Australian government’s response to the two events.
Old story, new story
By Kathy TierneyBetween 1956 and 1963, the Australian government authorised British nuclear tests on Anangu country. ‘Old story, new story’ chronicles these events at Maralinga.
Student Poverty, Human Rights and Academic Silence
By Len BaglowPoverty amongst University students is rife, yet many are turning a blind eye to its implications.
A Promised Land: A Review
By Amy WaltersAfter witnessing the carnage caused by the Trump administration, the 701-page first instalment of A Promised Land, Obama’s presidential memoirs, seems like a gift from what was, in retrospect, a golden age; an age in which the President took advice and made a serious effort to communicate complex ideas.
Are We There Yet? Five Human Rights Questions After Our Mental Health Royal Commission
By Simon KatterlContributors
Fashion & Feminism: The Revolutionary Mary Quant
By Gabrielle EbelingMary Quant: Fashion Revolutionary is an effervescent celebration of the designer’s use of fashion to manifest new attitudes, ideas and ambitions in the post-war landscape.
“The proposal for an Indigenous voice to Parliament unites Australians because it’s a fair and modest idea. It’s a concept based on inclusive dialogue and partnership in Indigenous affairs – itself a unifying concept.”
Shireen Morris, McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow at Melbourne University Law School