The “White” Ethnic Faces in the Australian Media – Mid-Week Review
For a country where more than a quarter of us were born overseas, the Australian media has a very monotone voice, writes Mabel Kwong.
Society and Culture – Page 41
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.
Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Human Rights
Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) have challenged our thinking around what it means to be human. Kate Galloway asks, ‘What do they mean for human rights?’
Can Social Media Campaigns Solve Real Life Problems?
Sarah George, co-ordinator of the national education program “Five Facts You Didn’t Know About ‘Boat People’”, tackles social media, online protesting and planning a popular campaign.
The Global Citizen Journalist
On technology, smart phones, journalism, and the representation of voices from the South – Lyndal Rowlands talks to Australia’s DRC-born Eric Mwamba. The first in our forthcoming Issue on Technology and Human Rights.
Standing on Ceremony – Mid-Week Review
Standing on Ceremony – a collection of plays exploring the rights of homosexual couples – is not always directly relevant to Australia, but makes its point with heart and humour, writes Sonia Nair.
Battle of the Sexes – Mid-Week Review
Battle of the Sexes is an engrossing documentary that fills in the significant context around the most watched tennis match in history, writes Sam Ryan.
Reporting Mental Illness the SANE way
No media outlet would ever run a story featuring the N word as an adjective. Maddie Smith asks whether the same can be said for disparaging descriptions of mental illness.
Scrutinising the Fourth Estate
Melissa Reid looks at media coverage of Kony and asylum seekers to ask, does our fast-paced media culture need to change?
Slacktivism – Just One Click To Save The World?
Hsin-Yi Lo explains why online activism cannot replace wider participation, engagement with the public and sacrifice to bring about social and political change.
On making Online Culture more Inclusive
Lyndal Rowlands explains the how and why of the ghettoisation of voices online, and the need for an inclusive cyberculture.
Fighting the Stigma
Australia is seeing the largest spike in new HIV cases in 20 years. While antiretroviral drugs can fight the virus, they cannot fight the stigma that comes with it, writes Broede Carmody.
Cried Wolf – Short Fiction by Steven Jerram
“What’s your name?”
He told them.
“Where does that name come from?”
“From? My mother.”