This week we explore the history of the death penalty in Australia and effecting Australians. This is the first in a series of programmes focussing on the impending death sentence of two young Australians, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, members of the so-called ‘Bali Nine’. It features a recent speech by seasoned anti-death penalty campaigner, Barry Jones.
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Forced marriage remains one of the most complex and poorly understood human rights and policy issues encountered by Australia in recent years.
Sophie Cousins’ book Renewal: Five Paths to a Fairer Australia is, in many respects, a proposal. For Cousins, the COVID-19 pandemic has provided Australians with an opportunity to reconsider the ways our society currently functions. Cousins aptly makes her case – while in some ways the pandemic reinforced burgeoning inequalities, it also presented us the chance to apply collectivist values to solve systemic problems.
The book A Secret Australia Revealed by the Wikileaks Exposés, edited by Felicity Ruby and Peter Cronau, was released at the time where Julian Assange, creator of Wikileaks, was awaiting his extradition trial to the United States for the publication of classified and sensitive information relating to the War on Terror.
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