I heard myself confusing tenses – intentionally – saw that I was trying to simplify the message – to speak her language – failing miserably. I hadn’t even asked what her language was. Even if I did I knew I didn’t speak it.
This week Athena Rogers reviews the refugee Melbourne Fringe Festival performance HiRise, and Pia White takes a look at discussions of violence in the media in the monthly media review.
Are liberty and violence morally irreconcilable? Isabella Royce asks us to ask again in this think piece on the relationship between the right to protest, violence as a political technique and violent government reactions.
Social media has a responsibility to victims of domestic violence because it shapes the dialogue that allows domestic violence to flourish, writes Leona Hameed.
A refugee’s journey is often filled with violence, even after they land on Australian shores. Asher Hirsch details some real examples of the violence that occurs in Australian-run detention centres.
This month Right Now considers the relationship between violence and human rights. Click here to read our violence editorial.
Kick-Ass 2 is so much poorer than its predecessor that together they offer an informative case study on Hollywood’s obsession with violence, writes Sam Ryan.
Jessica Szwarcbord highlights the link between family violence and homelessness in the aim of reducing both.
By James Petty. This article is part of a series on human rights and video games. In most reviews and critical examinations of video games, analysis tends to focus on a few specific elements of gaming: violence (how much and what kind), narrative (its quality and how it is delivered) and player experience (what it is […]
By Brendan Keogh. This article is part of a series on human rights and video games. Videogames are art. Anyone who says otherwise either doesn’t know what videogames are or they don’t know what art is. Videogames are creative works produced by creative people trying to express something. It’s that simple. Just like all forms of […]