Human Rights
All deaths are not terrorism (Part 2)

Are all deaths equal? Martin McMahon concludes his report on deaths from terrorism, mass ...  
All deaths are not terrorism (Part 1)

Are all deaths equal? Martin McMahon looks at deaths from terrorism, mass killings, indiscriminate ...  
Abuse in youth detention centres not restricted to the Northern Territory

What difference will a royal commission into young people in detention in NT make if we don't ...  
Hey PC Police! Context important when judging what's racist

What's wrong with light-hearted jibes between mates of different skin tones and racial backgrou ...  
NT detention: Just another atrocity

The Don Dale abuse, while horrific, is just another atrocity to add to a long list of systemic ...  
Don Dale child abuse: Be part of the solution

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders do not want more words written in reports that will be ...  
Privacy and the 2016 Census

Former Australian Statistician Bill McLennan discusses issues of privacy with the the recent ABS ...  
Breastfeeding in public: What the law means for women

Priyanka Barua espouses the freedom of Australia's breastfeeding laws and the security and norm ...  
Sonia Kruger's comments are racist: Her soapbox should come down

It's time we labelled the unjustified, destructive comments of Sonia Kruger, Pauline Hanson and ...  
Western hypocrisy under fire in the wake of the Turkish coup 

While maintaining alliances with other dictators, the West's swift condemnation of Turkish ...  
Freedom of speech according to Kruger and Hanson: Racism by any other name

Craig Thomson discusses Australia's ugly immigration policies – past and present – and ...  
Jenny Munro: Ten storey tribute to Redfern Tent Embassy founder

Wirajuri elder and activist, Jenny Munro, has been recognised with a giant mural for her four ...  
Racism: Pauline Hanson is the symptom, not the problem

It's easy to vilify Pauline Hanson because she is a parochial wind bag but it should not be in ...  
The Coalition, Hanson's resurrection and the rise of racism

Hanson's resurgence combined with a Coalition Government and a renewed racialised right in the ...  
Safety of refugees in offshore detention is the Turnbull Government's responsibility

As mental illness continues to spiral out of control in offshore detention, an asylum seeker has ...  
Why isn't the erosion of our democracy an election issue?

Criminal lawyer and spokesperson for the Australian Lawyers Alliance, Greg Barns, looks at the ...  
Fighting systemic violence

John Passant discusses the recent tragedies of Orlando and the Jo Cox murder and the systemic ...  
Bullying and collateral damage: The case of Dr Emery

Dr Don Kane discusses ongoing and deeply entrenched bullying within Australia's medical prof ...