Human Rights
The medal tally and needy Australia

The media is awash with despair about Australia's medal tally at the Olympics. Dave Donovan says ...  
#NauruFiles: Public concern over brutal treatment of refugees is starting to bite

Following the release of the #NauruFiles, public concern about Australia being seen as a "pari ...  
103 Nauru and Manus staff speak out: 'Bring them here immediately'

Deputy editor Michelle Pini spoke with Nauru child support worker Leah Gough about the circumst ...  
Gosford Anglican Church's invasion by Hansonite thugs: The new racism

The Gosford incident, the Nauru files, Don Dale and increasing racial violence are indicative of ...  
ALA demands Comcare prosecute over #NauruFiles abuses and WHS offences

With the lid lifted on what the BBC refers to as "Australia's Guantanamo Bay", past abuses an ...  
First Don Dale now #Nauruleak on rampant child abuse earns global censure

The Turnbull Government has earned world-wide condemnation again for its treatment of children in ...  
Australia's complicity in the East Timor atrocities is ongoing

On the eve of Bali's terror summit, Justice Minister Michael Keenan said he'd "welcome" indicted ...  
Human rights abuses and our accountability

Daemon Singer of the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties discusses our complicity in human ...  
Terrorism, tourism and banning Muslims

Calls to ban Muslim immigration are irrational and economically unviable since Australia's Muslim ...  
Middle finger for the Census 2016

Due to personal experience of how such data can be obtained for purposes other than statistical ...  
2016 Census and the erosion of trust

The weakness of the Coalition Government's argument that the Indigenous and homeless will be ...  
The Oz cartoonist Bill Leak sparks social media outrage for racist cartoon

Bill Leak's latest cartoon depicting stereotyped Aboriginal people has sparked controversy with ...  
Suicide of 15 year old Aboriginal boy in Don Dale a result of NT punitive culture

The public outcries come and go but the broken and ruined lives of Aboriginal children in dete ...  
Don Dale abuse: The NT Royal Commission and maintaining outrage

We cannot allow the promise of a Royal Commission into the juvenile detention system to appease ...  
2016 Census name and address collection: Is it legal?

The ABS has always been in the business of invading people’s privacy, as it must do whenever it ...  
Martin's resignation and the NT Royal Commission

Martin's resignation signals a chance for the NT youth detention Royal Commission to maintain ...  
Right royal NT whitewash

Turnbull's snap decision to call a Royal Commission into juvenile detention is now looking ...  
IA, Brian Martin QC and Kevin Rudd: Appointments and disappointments

Malcolm Turnbull's appointment of Brian Ross Martin QC to his NT Royal Commission and decision to ...