Are Criminal Laws Enough to Protect Victims of Forced Marriage in Australia?
Forced marriage remains one of the most complex and poorly understood human rights and policy issues encountered by Australia in recent years.
Family
Fashion & Feminism: The Revolutionary Mary Quant
Mary Quant: Fashion Revolutionary is an effervescent celebration of the designer’s use of fashion to manifest new attitudes, ideas and ambitions in the post-war landscape.
Merging of Family Court, Breakdown of Family Law
With the support of One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson, the Federal Parliament has passed a bill that risks saturating the Federal Circuit Court and endangering the safety and welfare of families in critical need of expert attention, writes Gabrielle Ebeling.
Why Criminalisation of Coercive Control is Not Enough
While coercive control legislation would mark a monumental shift away from the violence model of abuse, which sensationalises discrete episodes of physical assault, the reality is that the laws are unlikely, in and of themselves, to serve victims’ needs and prevent future harm.
Arab, Australian, Other: a review
This collection explores the varied experiences of living in the Arab diaspora in Australia, countering the portrayal of the Australian media, which ranges from homogenisation to racism.
Guluk naksa
In her poems, Leila explores a personal sense of origin that, like the ocean, binds several landscapes and times, coming back to the idea that a timeless, boundless love pervades.
Love and Family: a review of The White Girl
Tony Birch’s newest book is an insight into how the laws initiating and perpetuating the Stolen Generations affected families and towns in rural Australia.
To be or not to be religious?
Do you believe in God? Why? Author Eli Glasman ruminates on the religious themes that have characterised his life.
Translucent
‘Translucent’ by Cindy Jiang explores the assimilatory potential of growing up Asian in Australia.
Home truths on migration, multiculturalism, racism and identity: a review of Alice Pung’s Close to Home
Pung’s new collection gives an insight into a diverse range of topics, exploring multiculturalism, racism and migration in modern Australia.
Where do (surrogate) babies come from? Surrogacy as human rights violation
Surrogacy violates the basic human rights of women and children. Dr Renate Klein explains why the practice should be banned in Australia to protect the most vulnerable.