Looking Beyond Australia’s Debate About Asylum To Better Regional Answers For Refugees
Paul Power, CEO of the Refugee Council of Australia, offers 10 concrete steps that could be taken to improve Australia’s asylum seeker policy.
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Why is Australia’s Immigration Minister Attacking the Refugee Convention?
Dana Affleck responds to the Minister for Immigration’s attack on the Refugee Convention, explaining what might have been thought obvious – why it is important to protect people fleeing persecution.
Elaine Pearson, Australia Director at Human Rights Watch
Ellen Hays spoke to Elaine Pearson, Australia director of Human Rights Watch, at the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law’s annual conference, where Pearson was speaking on the consequences of Australia’s border protection policy.
Exposing the true “undesirables” in Australian immigration
The Undesirables is an explosive expose of the tightly controlled asylum seeker detention facility on Nauru and further highlights the depths of Australian government depravity, writes Sonia Nair.
Emerging voices of refugees on show
Mabel Kwong was at this year’s Emerge Festival Main Event, an event that gives refugees a platform to express their passion and energy, and begs the question why there isn’t more of it.
After
This moving story by Christy Collins was shortlisted for Right Now’s Fiction Competition, judged by Anna Funder and Tony Birch.
They leave by night
This moving poem by Sharon Hammad was shortlisted for the Right Now Poetry Competition, judged by Maxine Beneba-Clarke, Amanda Anastasi and Benjamin Solah.
Promises, Promises: What’s in a promise?
In the wake of recent revelations that Australia has turned at least two boats of asylum seekers back to Indonesia, Clarrie Burke looks at both the history and the current unfolding of the Coalition promise to “stop the boats”.
Happy Christmas! (don’t get tasered)
Poetry from Pip Smith.
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.