What happens when a remote Aboriginal community in Western Australia is ‘closed’?
Rose Carnes clarifies how the closure of remote Aboriginal communities is a form of forced eviction as defined by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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It’s Time to Modernise Australia’s Birth Registration System
You may not know that many births still go unregistered in Australia today. Paula Gerber and Melissa Castan from the Castan Centre say Australia is long overdue for an upgrade.
Surrogacy: Whose Reproductive Liberty?
In international surrogacy arrangements, how can we protect the reproductive liberties of all parties involved? Kate Galloway explores.
Unfair and Unhealthy
Dr Lesley Russell examines the Impact of the 2014-15 Budget on Indigenous Programs and Services.
Portraying Positive Stories in Aboriginal Health
Melissa Stoneham, the Deputy Director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute in WA, on the Western Australian Indigenous Storybooks and counteracting negative media coverage of Aboriginal health.
The Sins of the Other or Silence of the Self? – Ebola in West Africa
The current outbreak of Ebola in West Africa is a compelling example of how inequity, inequality and injustice are powerful determinants of health, writes Alexandra L. Phelan.
The health of human rights on full display: July media review
Health issues were at the forefront of human rights media coverage in July writes Pia White, and the diagnosis for Australia is not good.
Policing The Body: Women’s health and reproductive rights
Marta Skrabacz considers reproductive rights as a women’s health issue, and recent developments in legislation regulating women’s bodies.
Thankyou for disengaging
Sam Ryan asks whether some of the most celebrated, creative responses to raising funds to address global inequality are actually disarming powerful pockets of consumers and voters.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership will cut accessibility to medicine for those that need it most
Following the Global Ideas Forum in Melbourne last week, Right Now’s Hector Sharp reflects on the health implications of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership discussed at the forum.
Silencing soft targets
We speak with Vicki Wilkinson about her efforts to raise awareness and create change for young disabled people forced to live in nursing homes.
Watershed? Indigenous Rights and the Water Bill Exposure Draft
Will Mooney on the Water Bill Exposure Draft and how the Victorian Government has left Indigenous rights off the water reform agenda.