Superannuation: From privilege to right
Can the market be a vehicle for human rights? Aron Paul looks at how superannuation has been redefined over time from a privilege to a worker’s right.
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Are Unpaid Internships Opportunities or Exploitation?
Graduates get experience and businesses secure fresh talent at no cost, but is this really a win-win situation?
No dogs, no fruit, no firearms, no professors
Maria Tumarkin looks at the tragedy of immigrants’ wasted potential in the supposed land of opportunity.
Free speech at work: watch what you say?
Dario Mujkic highlights the importance of employees’ rights to freely discuss workplace grievances outside of their job, and how employers’ attempts to silence such voices can be countered.
Digging for Dirt: The nexus between mining, oil & gas industries and human rights
Bianca De Bortoli explains how corporate compliance, corporate complicity and corporate social responsibility interact regarding human rights and the extractive industry.
The workplace: where mental illness stigma thrives
The workplace is a breeding ground for mental illness stigma, writes Sam Ryan.
Individual rights and solidarity
Dario Mujkic considers the “individualism” in rights discourse, the challenges of isolation and conflict that this poses, and the silver lining that is solidarity
Who’s your nanny? Exploitation, choice and migrant childcare workers
Childcare in Australia is notoriously expensive. The Indonesian Institute has proposed that the Australian government should enable Australian families to hire Indonesian nannies as domestic migrant workers – for $200 per week.
A right to be lazy? Part 1
Jeff Sparrows’s monograph on idleness, rights, and why we ought to work a little harder at working a little less.
Passing the buck on international students
The Australian Government and education providers make a nice profit from international students, but fail to protect them from being exploited in the workplace, writes Alexandra Hurley.
Global labour rights
Right Now’s Rose Hunter speaks to Daisy Gardener, Oxfam’s Labour Rights Coordinator, about global labour rights, the Rana Plaza factory tragedy in Bangladesh, and how Australian consumers can act to protect workers’ rights.
Sex Workers: We know what we want
When workers in industries other than mine are organising for rights, their ability to speak on what they need as workers is rarely questioned. However, when it comes to sex workers there is an assumption that we can’t even articulate what we want as workers, and that we can’t organise together. It is often argued […]