Populism, Trump and the perils of ‘Dutertopia’
What’s worse: a president who can’t relate to the majority, or a president who can but chooses to disregard judicial processes to do their job?
Society and Culture – Page 23
Review: ‘The Palestine Laboratory’
'The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology Occupation Around the World' is a must read for those wanting to understand how the oppression of Palestinians is intertwined with the export of military technologies worldwide.
The most normal thing in the world
Writer James Robertson-Hirst reflects on what it meant to read his story about a same sex relationship for the Emerging Writers Festival.
Green Jumpers
Writer James Robertson-Hirst contemplates love, green jumpers and lions in his touching short story.
They Will Have To Kill Us First
This film documents the lives of four Malian musical acts as they fight to continue playing the music they love after fleeing the violence of their homeland.
Aylan Kurdi
Poet Virginia Lowe reflects on asylum seekers and the impact such experiences have on children.
The Hate Race
Maxine Beneba Clarke’s The Hate Race is a powerful wake-up call to all Australians.
Lionel Shriver and combating the selfishness of freedom of expression
Right Now columnist Adolfo Aranjuez weighs in on the Lionel Shriver controversy, and the role of language in propagating, and curbing, cultural appropriation.
Silence around atrocity hard to believe
Hard to Believe is a film that seeks to bring global attention to a massive human rights issue being ignored the world over.
Q&A with Rowena Allen, Gender and Sexuality Commissioner
Rowena Allen, Victoria’s Gender and Sexuality Commissioner, discusses her first year in the role.
Oppression Olympics: a game nobody wins
Right Now columnist Adolfo Aranjuez discusses the limitations of identity-based labels as bases for discourse on oppression and disadvantage.
Telling stories that could never be spoken
Sam Ryan reviews ‘Siblings’ by Kate Strohm.
Spaces created for artistic expression in mandatory detention
The Refugee Art Project helps asylum seekers in detention centres, and those recently settled in local communities, express themselves through creativity and art.