Looking for Camp 32: a personal journey into Cambodia’s dark past
Camp 32 gives a voice to those victims who should not be forgotten or overlooked, writes Samaya Borom.
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How expensive is that cheap product?
Supermarket Monsters is an easy-to-read documentation of the sins of the supermarkets, writes Lou Heinrich.
Films pay homage to interminable spirit of environmentalists
Defendant 5 and Black Ice are both testaments to the inspirational endurance of the environmental movement, both at the most basic grassroots level and on the world stage, writes Christieanna Ozorio.
Not just another doomsday climate change book
The Handbook is not your typical book about climate change science, writes Pia White.
What life awaits refugees granted asylum?
Freedom Stories exposes how refugees’ experiences have informed their post-settlement life in Australia.
Personal feelings about climate change aired in handwritten letters
An exhibition at the Melbourne Writers Festival uses the age-old practice of letter writing to demonstrate the gravity of the world’s climate change problem.
Call to arms to fight for life
Wages of Rebellion is a nonviolent call to arms for us to not accept injustice but to “fight for life”, writes Athena Rogers.
How does the asylum seeker debate compare to attitudes of yesteryears?
Klaus Neumann uses individual stories to illustrate the historical nexus between immigration policy on a macro level and its direct effect on refugees and asylum seekers, writes Christieanna Ozorio.
Injustice – it comes as a package
Treating injustice as a whole concept, I Am A Miracle questions humanity, what it is to be human, law, and its role in justice.
Crucial reading: First Nations human rights trajectory
Deftly written and all-inclusive, No Small Change: The Road to Recognition for Indigenous Australia is a must read, writes Samaya Borom.
The role time plays in peace-building efforts
Time for Peace shows us how our misunderstanding of and lack of sensitivity towards the role of time in conflict prevention hinders our utopian dream of achieving a global sustainable peace, writes Athena Rogers.
Writing Motherhood
Taken as a whole, the essays in Mothermorphosis reflect the fact that the term motherhood encompasses a broad spectrum of experiences, writes Magdalena McGuire.