How to be Friends with a Homophobe
Daryl Yang considers the increasingly common phenomenon of friendships breaking down over political differences, and muses over the question: should we be friends with homophobes?
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Soon the sun rose in September, Santiago
Poet Juan Garrido Salgado writes an homage to Licha Ortiz and her father Fernando Ortiz, who was Disappeared in 1976 in Chile.
Visualising human rights in a digital world
What do human rights look like as a visual language? Jane Lyndon’s new book seeks to find out.
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.
Remembering the Holocaust means upholding human rights
How can we use human rights to ensure that the worst of what humanity is capable of is kept at bay?
Violence and Disability: Will a Royal Commission help?
Anna Arstein-Kerslake and Claire Spivakovsky discuss the draft Terms of Reference recently released by the Disability Royal Commission, and whether it will address the issues of violence experienced by persons with disabilities.
State of the Nation
Writer and rights lawyer Anthony Levin questions the election cycle in his new poem.
River
Poet William Cotter laments the state of our drying-up rivers.