Right Now’s August 2014 Issue, Education
In August, Right Now took an in-depth look at education and human rights. Read our education issue here.
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Emerging from the cave
Like Plato’s prisoner in the cave, kids at school are often disengaged with the world around them. Claire Feain shares her experiences with equipping Australian youth with the tools to become active citizens so they can emerge out the cave with their eyes open.
Justice Now
Ros Kidd examines the financial mismanagement of Aboriginal savings and trust funds and the fight for full justice for the Stolen Wages claimants.
Portraying Positive Stories in Aboriginal Health
Melissa Stoneham, the Deputy Director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute in WA, on the Western Australian Indigenous Storybooks and counteracting negative media coverage of Aboriginal health.
The Freedom Interviews: Lydia Cacho
In the third and final Freedom Interview Ellena Savage speaks with Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho, author of “Slavery, Inc.”, about her work uncovering the global sexual slavery industry.
The Freedom Interviews: Farah Mohamed
In Part Two of our Freedom Interview series Right Now’s Nicola Caon spoke with social entrepreneur Farah Mohamed, founder and CEO of G(irls) 20.
Editorial: Cultural Shift
When it comes to significant shifts in culture, law and society are poised in an agonising “chicken or egg” scenario. Does the law change from above, trickling down to alter a culture? Or does a movement rise up, demand, fight, lobby for a change to which the law eventually concedes? It’s a dynamic relationship that doesn’t obey a strict rule of cause and effect.