Editorial – Timor-Leste
Check out the articles from Right Now’s recent Issue on Timor-Leste, one of Australia’s closest neighbours
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The Cost of Voluntourism
Monique Hurley highlights concerns with the tourist volunteer – is it all worth it?
The machinery of government: on being a person in the turning cogs of aid
What happens at the human level when the machinery of government makes a distant, impersonal decision?
Editorial – Human Rights Critiques
Check out Right’s Now’s April 2014 issue on critiques of human rights
No Asians. Your Desire
This striking poem by Jake Dennis won the Right Now Poetry Competition, judged by Maxine Beneba-Clarke, Amanda Anastasi and Benjamin Solah.
HAVING IT BOTH WAYS: AUSTRALIA’S CONFLICTED POSITION IN THE TIMOR SEA
Sarita Ryan explains the Timorese struggle for self-determination, and Australia’s struggle to balance its economic self-interests and cooperative international relationships.
Sediment
New fiction from Alice Bishop, shortlisted for the Right Now Fiction Competition, judged by Tony Birch and Anna Funder.
Coming of Age: Growing Up Muslim in Australia – Mid-Week Review
No religious group in Australia has been subject to the level of vilification that Muslims have. Coming of Age: Growing Up Muslim in Australia offers a series of personal accounts that debunk the stereotypes, writes Sonia Nair.
Timor’s Oil
The final piece in Timor’s struggle for independence remains elusive thanks to Australia’s bullying and greed when it comes to oil and gas, writes the Timor Sea Justice Campaign’s Tom Clarke.
What the Frack is Coal Seam Gas?
The far north coast of NSW is heating up. Farmers and landowners alike are protesting the aggressive progress of coal seam gas (or CSG) mining, writes Alexandra Hurley.