Exhaustion: A Monologue
Creative writing piece by Meera Atkinson in collaboration with formerly incarcerated people with a history of injecting drug use and participants in a recent study by the University of New South Wales.
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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.
Where do I belong?
In this personal essay, Guido Melo reflects on race, identity, belonging and intergenerational trauma.
Are We There Yet? Five Human Rights Questions After Our Mental Health Royal Commission
There was one message that sung through Royal Commission’s final report into Victoria’s mental health system, “the system is broken.”
Saving Rice Relations
Saving Rice Relations is a political time-travelling satire. This fictional letter pens instructions that the author wishes had been said during the rise of Hansonism.
Stranded Aussies and Advance Australia Unfair
Esther Rockett, the co-founder of the Stranded Aussies Action Network, writes on the Government’s failure to guarantee the right to return to one’s home country for Australia’s abroad during the pandemic.
Truth
In ‘Truth’, Anna Jabour considers the dynamics of power and control in relationships.
Failbook: How to Lose Friends and Influencers
Facebook tried to use Australia as a warning to the rest of the world about what happens when you try to regulate them. Instead, they have shown that they are no longer the friendly social network and will go to great lengths to get their way.
Stay Quietly in Your Seats
In this poem, John Bartlett examines scenes from the past and present day to consider how absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The African Australian Question Part II: Trying to form an identity on an anxious and isolated island
This is the second part in a two-part series on Australian identity and the African Australian Question.
The African Australian Question Part I: Trying to form an identity on an anxious and isolated island
This is the first part in a two-part series on Australian identity and the African Australian Question.
The Social Dilemma is a real-world problem happening before our eyes
As online technology advances unfettered by ethical restraint, their creators increasingly see the resulting problems as an “existential threat”, in Neflix’s new documentary The Social Dilemma.
Right Now’s Most Read Stories in 2020
Our three most-read stories this year encapsulate the adage ‘the personal is political,’ exploring wider issues in the world through lived experiences. Look out for these writers in 2021.