The Mourners’ Dance
In the most recent round of protests in Iran that started on December 28, 2025, and was met with unprecedented brutality by the Islamic Republic, videos have emerged of mourners dancing at the funerals of slain protesters.
Tag Archives: Australian human rights
The Kinship Has Sailed
“The Kinship Has Sailed” reflects on a childhood shaped by violence, instability, and separation, while also exploring the complex emotional impact such experiences can carry into adulthood.
social erosion
A poem by widely published poet and a competition winner, Margaret Owen Ruckert.
1769
A speculative narrative that flips the history of European colonisation by imagining a reversal: a seafaring people from a southern island travelling north to colonise a new frontier (a year before Cook got to Australia).
Cacao Flower
A poem by Indian–Australian poet and visual artist, Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad.
Denial
Denial has got us a long way as a species, but with climate change, we are up against an actual wall. Many will respond with even more denial.
Pathway to freedom – the end of indefinite detention in Australia
Right Now interviews Josephine Langbien, Senior Lawyer at the Human Rights Law Centre, about the significance of the High Court’s ruling on indefinite detention, and the Australian Government’s response.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander publishing stronger than ever
Claire Wilson sits down with Magabala Books to find out how Australia’s leading Indigenous publisher turns out some of the “most dynamic, exciting and impressive literature currently being published in Australia.”
Maralinga Nuclear Test site South Australia
Writer Di Cousens imagines the desolate landscape of Maralinga Nuclear Test site in South Australia.
Razor Wire Childhood
The poem ‘Razor Wire Childhood’ by Rodney Williams was inspired by a series of drawings by children held on Christmas Island. Although that facility has now closed, the issue of children held in detention in Australian government facilities is still relevant today.