Human Rights
Turnbull's 'best practice'? UN slams Nauru as inhuman

Since John Menadue wrote this, the UN have delivered another report slamming Nauru. This puts paid ...  
Turnbull's UN immigration spin doesn't disguise a Government in crisis

Turnbull’s tough-on-border-protection nonsense at the UN is a desperate ploy to make him look ...  
UN Refugee Summit NY: Turnbull breaks the commitments we have given

Anna Talbot and Greg Barns from the Australian Lawyers Alliance report on the UN Refugee Summit ...  
The bald-faced hypocrisy of Same Sex Marriage opponents

How would opponents of marriage equality feel if powerful lobby groups campaigned against divorce ...  
Yet another TV show privileges Andrew Bolt's views — this time on the ABC

Amy Maguire critiques the ABC's 'Recognition: Yes or No?' — a programme which supposedly debates ...  
Plebiscite or bust: A Coalition folly

“What is the disaster that will unfold … what is it that would be so terrible if we just ...  
Ms Hanson: How can we be One Nation if you pit Australian against Australian?

"Ms Hanson, we can never truly be One Nation if you continue to pit Australian against Aust ...  
#BringThemHere — but then what?

Bill Burrhouse says #BringThemHere is not a plan but a three word slogan, as he outlines a ...  
Australia's complicity in Sri Lankan war crimes

'Returning asylum seekers and refugees to a place of danger attracts a strong legal sanction known ...  
Australia’s Indigenous children are incarcerated at the world’s highest rate

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are sentenced and incarcerated at the world's ...  
Mother Teresa's foetal attraction

Mother Teresa was officially declared a saint this week, but is still a figure of some controve ...  
Mounting abuses in youth detention need Indigenous-led solutions

With ever more reports surfacing about child abuse and torture in Australia's detention centres ...  
In memory of so many, there must be a national custody notification service

"If the CNS has saved lives in NSW and the ACT year after year and assisted thousands of indivi ...  
Wilson Security bows out of the Turnbull Government's abusive detention centres

After an intensive social media campaign including protests and blockades at Wilson sites across ...  
Unity in diversity and the Gosford Anglican Church example

A service at the Anglican Parish of Gosford where many faith leaders including Fr Rod Bower ...  
Tim Wilson cries over plebiscite but backs it anyway

Liberal Party LGBT ambassador Tim Wilson's admission that a marriage equality plebiscite is ...  
Nauru Files? It's in the Work Health and Safety Act, Mr Turnbull

Since the Work Health and Safety Act applies to all operators both government and non-government ...  
Frank Brennan:  Plebiscite only option if Turnbull is to retain leadership

Could the Greens' shot across the bows in refusing to support the plebiscite, inflict a mortal ...