Human Rights
JEFF MCMULLEN: The boy with no eyes — the dangers of a new nuclear arms race

Trump’s reckless nuclear testing threats risk reigniting an arms race and repeating the horrors ...  
The Union remembers its dead

From Gaza to Yemen, the world’s frontlines have become execution grounds for truth-tellers.  
Chris Hedges gives the Edward Said memorial lecture: 'Requiem for Gaza'

Chris Hedges recently gave the Edward Said memorial lecture to a sold-out audience at the Unive ...  
Empire rebranded: The new architecture of violence

Colonial power may have changed its language, but it still decides who lives, who dies and who is ...  
Australia’s silence on Armenian genocide reveals shameful political cowardice

Despite eyewitness accounts from Anzacs and repeated calls from MPs, successive governments have ...  
Israel expands attacks across Middle East amid muted Western response

Israel’s latest bombing campaign – spanning Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and now U.S. ally ...  
Australia’s “mass migration” myth: The real story is mass deportation

Australia isn’t facing mass migration — it’s enforcing mass deportations, allowing Section ...  
Gaza’s children bear the hidden cost of war

While the bombs fall on Gaza, the deepest wounds are carved into the minds of its children — ...  
Palestinian women bear brunt of Gaza war while leading community resilience

Women in Gaza are enduring displacement, loss and hunger, yet continue to lead resilience efforts ...  
Solitary confinement as a sentence isn't justice, it's torture

Erin Patterson’s crimes shocked Australia, but decades of near-total isolation defy human ...  
UN intervention essential to stop Gaza genocide and establish peace

Calls are mounting for the UN General Assembly to bypass Security Council vetoes and urgently ...  
Suicide risk grows as prison overcrowding continues to be ignored

Overcrowded cells break people — prison suicides linked to worsening mental illness and disr ...  
Coroner confirms sedation risks in circumcision death of WA toddler

The death of David Flynn during a non-therapeutic circumcision has reignited debate over Medicare ...  
Kostakidis defended as journalists back Palestine in historic MEAA vote

On Wednesday 20 August 2025, history was made in the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance.  
Justice denied: Prisoner rights missing in WA’s broken system

Western Australia’s rising prison population exposes systemic neglect, with overcrowding, ...  
Festival fallout: Antisemitism code sparks exodus from Bendigo writers' event

An ironic censorship saga has threatened the very existence of an entire literary festival.  
Greta Thunberg’s Gaza stance ignites debate on protest and denial

As Greta Thunberg joins the Gaza flotilla, her activism forces a global reckoning with denial — ...  
Gaza march draws 100,000 despite state opposition

Despite resistance from NSW authorities, a massive protest march for Gaza crossed Sydney’s ...  

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