Claire Hammerton of ChilOut argues all children should be removed from onshore and offshore immigration detention and appropriate laws enacted to ensure children are never again detained for prolonged periods.
Freedom Stories exposes how refugees’ experiences have informed their post-settlement life in Australia.
Rev Alistair Macrae reflects on his involvement with #LoveMakesAWay, an ecumenical coalition engaging in direct action protests through prayer to secure the release of asylum seeker children from detention.
Australia’s asylum policies are not only inhumane, they are also ridiculously expensive. Asher Hirsch of the Refugee Council of Australia crunches the numbers.
Klaus Neumann uses individual stories to illustrate the historical nexus between immigration policy on a macro level and its direct effect on refugees and asylum seekers, writes Christieanna Ozorio.
Turn-backs of asylum seeker boats is now bipartisan policy, but is Australia the only country to employ this controversial approach?
The loud cries of Reclaim Australia should be challenged. But Right Now columnist Senthorun Raj reminds us not to forget about Australia’s institutional racism, which is far more insidious.
Right Now spoke to Lucy Feagins, Editor and Founder of The Design Files, to learn more about her fundraising exhibition for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre and how art can act towards social change.
Detention centre visitors can be a detainees’ only link to the outside world. Suzana Jacmenovic looks at new rules at the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation centre that are cutting off that link.
Increasing governmental secrecy and expanding executive powers are a threat to our democracy that must be resisted, writes Right Now columnist Senthorun Raj.
The Big Issue special edition’s respectful reportage draws heavily on first-hand testimonies and the accounts of asylum seekers themselves, rather than editorialising and moralising their experiences, writes Veronica Sullivan.
ASEAN must develop a stronger human rights framework to grapple with the Rohingya refugee crisis, writes Fia Walker.