Human Rights
#3 TOP STORY OF 2019: Robodebt claims the life of a 19-year-old mum

Unlike Kevin Rudd's flawed 'pink batts' rollout, deaths caused by the Coalition's monstrous r ...  
#5 TOP STORY OF 2019: The four doctors who voted against Medevac

The Coalition eventually succeeded in getting the Medevac repeal bill through the Senate in ...  
#6 TOP STORY OF 2019: New migration visas unfair and exploitative

Former Deputy Secretary of the Immigration Department Abul Rizvi shed vital insights in Austral ...  
#7 TOP STORY OF 2019: Peter Dutton and the great Australian tourist visa scam

Home Affairs commandant Peter Dutton has exercised a malign influence over Australia's Immigrat ...  
#8 TOP STORY OF 2019: Coalition loses control of visa system

Australia's corrupted immigration system was of major interest to IA readers in 2019, with this ...  
The truth about the Medevac 'four-star' asylum seekers

Unlike media claims that the Medevac Bill promotes four-star holidays, first-hand evidence ...  
A left-wing critique of the NDIS

While the NDIS has made some positive inroads, it has some way to go to fulfil its ambitious ...  
Open letter to Scott Morrison regarding Julian Assange

Academics, journalists, security veterans, whistleblowers, authors and artists have urged the PM ...  
VIDEO: Julian Assange's dad details son's torture

Independent Australia and QCCL hosted an event to raise awareness for the plight of WikiLeaks ...  
BRISBANE EVENT: Justice for Julian

Independent Australia is co-hosting a public event together with the Queensland Council for ...  
Jim Cairns: Labor Left legend, Whitlam Minister and philosopher

Jim Cairns was a towering political figure in his day, and a serious rival to Gough Whitlam. After ...  
Remembering the last three years since Trump's election

Thinking he would lose and in order to save money, Donald Trump hired a small hotel ballroom for ...  
Hope for peace in Bougainville while West Papua endures

Voting that started on Saturday 23 November, in the long-awaited referendum over independence for ...  
JOHN PILGER: Julian sat alone, his fist clenched and held high

I set out at dawn. Her Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh is in the flat hinterland of south-east London ...  
Visa applications from China and Malaysia surge due to 'poor policy'

The Coalition Government says the surge in asylum applications from Chinese and Malaysian citizens ...  
ABC and SBS fail in their reporting on Bolivia coup

The notion that Australia’s SBS and ABC are politically “Left” is wildly incorrect.   
The politicians awake: Australia calls for Julian Assange

Australians from both the public and political sectors are becoming increasingly vocal in bringing ...  
JOHN PILGER: Journalism and The Assange Effect

The mainstream media has recently declared a passion for freedom of speech — they are worried ...  

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