Making Aboriginal deaths in custody “history”: On Royal Commissions
Right Now interviews Uncle Sam Watson on the place of Royal Commissions in history, and the lessons of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
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The case for free phone calls in prison
Imagine not being able to afford a single phone call to your family. That's the reality for people in Australian prisons. Monique Hurley and Sarah Schwartz explain why phone calls in prison should be free.
Protecting people from harm
Mark McMillan on the proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act, the usefulness of anti-discrimination legislation and his personal reflections on taking Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt to court
Bunjilaka – Mid-Week Review
Maya Borom visits the Melbourne Museum’s Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre that provides a wondrous, educational and hands-on experience of Indigenous cultural heritage.
Utopia – Mid-Week Review
Must-see documentary, Utopia, is a damning account of successive Australian governments’ failure to address apartheid-style treatment of Indigenous communities, writes Maya Borom.
Trailblazer Profile: Nova Peris
For the month of December, Right Now has published content with a focus on Human Rights and Cultural Shift. So where would we be without the movers and the shakers? Isabella Royce answers this and other questions in her profile of trailblazer Nova Peris, the first female indigenous politician elected to national parliament.
Living Indigenous Languages
At the time of European settlement, around 250 Indigenous languages were spoken in Australia. Just 200 years later, it is estimated only 20 are widely spoken. Allison Worrall investigates the role of education in maintaining and revitalising Indigenous languages.
Life in the long grass
Each night, around 1000 people sleep out in the long grass around Darwin. Sienna Merope explores the issues behind Darwin’s homeless population.
With bars, without walls
Chloe Potvin sheds light on the housing challenges female Indigenous prisoners face post-release.
Artistic Dreaming – Women, Art and Empowerment in La Perouse
By Jacqui Fetchet. This article is part of our April and May focus on Art and Human Rights. “For me the idea of a blank canvas is one of the most empowering things – the thought that you can do anything, go anywhere, say whatever you want. It is freedom of speech. For my people it […]
Mother Courage – Mid-Week Review
By Maya Borom. Warwick Thornton’s Mother Courage is an installation co-commissioned by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) and the five-yearly modern and contemporary art exhibition dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Germany. Thornton is best known as the winner of the Camera d’Or for best first feature at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival for Samson […]
Aboriginal Australians Offered National Suicide Prevention Program
By Shae Courtney. In 2008 the State Coroner for Western Australia, Alastair Hope, released his report into the deaths of 22 Aboriginal Australians in the Kimberley region of Western Australia since 2000. The Hope Report outlined some 27 recommendations to the state government and highlighted the urgent need for accountability in the state’s provisions to […]
CULTURAL DIVERSITY, NAMING & SHAMING & ABORIGINAL Community’s CALL FOR HELP: THE HUMAN RIGHTS WRAP UP
21 July 2012 Cultural Diversity and child protection A review of Available research literature into the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) as well as refugee families in the Australian Child Protection System (CPS) has been published. The paper looks into what areas still require research in order to meet the needs of migrants […]