Human Rights
Carr pushes for renewed embargoes on Myanmar to protect the Rohingya

Bob Carr and Lee Rhiannon spoke against the genocide of the Rohingya people in Myanmar at a Sydney ...  
Turnbull’s postal opinion poll: A vicious, bullying farce

The same-sex marriage poll is insidious and privileged bullying of the most damaging kind.  
Frank Walker's 'Traitors: Why Australia and its allies betrayed our Anzacs'

Bilal Cleland discusses the depth of the betrayal of Australian forces by the post-war settlements ...  
Same-sex marriage will end Christmas, freedom and life as we know it

Conservatives are rallying against same-sex marriage in a desperate attempt to defend a backward ...  
Wilson Security: Working hand-in-hand with – and protected by – Government

Apparently, writing ‘WILSON: Human Rights Abusers’ in chalk on a glass window is seen by the ...  
Second class citizens: More consequential citizenship issues

If Australian Governments feel free to treat citizen minorities as lesser than others, what kind ...  
Scullion sends Indigenous Advancement funding to Australia Day celebrations

Why were next year’s Australia Day celebrations going to be funded via the Government’s ...  
Cashless Debit Card: Income management and the surveillance state

The Cashless Debit Card is a radical attempt to monitor and control legal behaviours based on  ...  
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EDITORIAL: The same sex marriage bullet

With the High Court ruling in favour of the same-sex postal survey yesterday, Prime Minister ...  
Marriage equality: 'Yes' vote rises but 12.4% still undecided

While the latest figures show support for marriage equality is rising, the "Yes" campaign shoul ...  
'The Australian' cons the capable as well as the cranks on Section 18C

Cindy Prior's Section 18C case may be over but the malicious Murdoch media campaign against the ...  
Starvation and attrition: Dutton, asylum seekers and 'un-Australian' lawyers

“There is nothing more Australian than ensuring people are subject to the rule of law and have ...  
Voices of reason call for immediate end to NT Indigenous Intervention

Hundreds of eminent Australians will tomorrow in Melbourne add their support to Indigenous calls ...  
Why the churches will not influence the same-sex marriage vote

Many religious leaders in Australia are now actively campaigning for a 'Yes' vote in the same-sex ...  
Child Sexual Abuse Royal Commission and the Catholic confessional sanctity

The Catholic Church’s systemic abuse of children exposes a corrupt medieval hierarchy, which ...  
No certainty on marriage equality plebiscite, but a 'Yes' vote is crucial

The future of the marriage equality plebiscite is being challenged in the High Court, but suppo ...  
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EDITORIAL: Marriage Equality — Oppose the plebiscite and vote “Yes”

If the plebiscite for a “popular vote” on marriage equality is so bad, why should you vote ...  
Love, war and marriage equality

Turnbull's postal plebiscite on gay marriage but not for sending troops to North Korea only ...  
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