The African Australian Question Part I: Trying to form an identity on an anxious and isolated island
By Leon KalumbaThis is the first part in a two-part series on Australian identity and the African Australian Question.
Refugees & asylum seekers
Right Now’s Most Read Stories in 2020
By Angus SmithOur 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.
No fair go for the forgotten ‘legacy caseload’ asylum seekers
By Sangeetha PillaiDr. Sangeetha Pillai writes about the story of Zaki Haidari and how he got caught up in Australia’s ‘legacy caseload’ legal limbo.
Arrival
By Angela CostiAngela Costi’s poem considers how the stories of newly arrived people can be undermined by legal definitions, how Australia’s migration law is designed to keep them in a state of ‘arrival’.
The Subtle Art of Cultural Activism: a Review of Stateless
By Isabelle WinklerBased on the true story of a woman wrongfully detained in offshore detention, Stateless challenges our capacity for empathy.
A Source of Shame: Australia’s Failure to Uphold the Human Rights of Refugees
By Sohee Park KwonAustralia’s public health response to COVID-19 demonstrates a double standard that blatantly disregards refugees and asylum seekers’ fundamental right to health.
Incremental Changes
By Dave ClarkIn this moment of rising authoritarianism and political theatre, Dave Clark reminds us not to lose sight of the cumulative effects of small shifts and injustices.
The Legacy of the Asylum Seeker Phone Ban
By Sangeetha PillaiA proposed law that recently went before the Australian Federal Parliament would have given the Department of Home Affairs the power to ban access to mobile phones and other communication devices for some of the most vulnerable and isolated people in Australia: the refugees, asylum seekers and other non-citizens who are held in immigration detention.
Freedom Street: A Documentary Journey into the Australian Border policy
By Alfred Pek and JN JoniadFilmmaker Alfred Pek and journalist JN Joniad discuss Freedom Street, their ongoing documentary project into the lives of refugees in Indonesia
Rohingya youth still stateless and separated from their families seven years on
By Margarite ClareyThree years after violence in Myanmar forced more than 745,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee the country, many in Australia are still suffering the consequences of statelessness.
Where to draw the line on liberty? Refugee Protests in the time of Coronavirus
Margarite Clarey in conversation with Jonathan SriA lot of people may be questioning whether protests are the best way to apply pressure. The answer is that we haven’t yet found a better way.