Human Rights
Sacrificing refugees to win the election

Has Labor's voting down of motion to ban boat turnbacks reduced Australia’s moral integrity and ...  
Stopping the boats: A graph for lazy journalists

Lazy journalists continue to accept the Coalition’s claim that Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison ...  
The ALP and the asylum seekers

The decision by Labor’s National Conference on Saturday not to ban turning back asylum seeker ...  
UN refugee body condemns Shorten's boat turnbacks backflip

In advance of Labor debating the controversial policy of refugee boat turnbacks at its National ...  
Edward Snowden calls for technologists to build an internet for the people

'Everybody should be safe all the time, else we let others choose who will be safe or not,' ...  
Following Dutch footsteps, activists to sue Abbott Government on climate

A landmark Dutch ruling has roused the Australian community to use human rights as a legal basis ...  
Immigration workers ask to be charged under new Border Force gag laws

Scores of current and former workers at Australia's immigration detention centres write an open ...  
Paying people smugglers: Business as usual in Australia-Indonesian relations?

The allegations that Australia paid people smuglers to return their cargo to Indonesia is just the ...  
The Mallah brouhaha puts the spotlight on our civil liberties

In the brouhaha following Zaky Mallah's appearance on Monday's Q and A, little attention has been ...  
Israel's cheer squad (Part 3): Richard Kemp as Israel’s frontman

When controversial Israeli apologist, Colonel Richard Kemp, was asked to speak at Sydney Univer ...  
Detention centres and State censorship

Australia’s detention centres have become propaganda tools of terror, writes Kellie Tranter.  
Israel's cheer squad and Sydney University - Part 1

When controversial Israeli apologist, Colonel Richard Kemp, was asked to speak at Sydney Univer ...  
New Queensland MP Peter Russo puts ordinary people above Party pressures

In his maiden speech to the Queensland Parliament, new Sunnybank MP Peter Russo said that the ...  
The citizenship debate we should be having

The Abbott Government has called for a national conversation on citizenship, but in fact this is ...  
Politicising human rights — what a terrible thing to do

So, the Government reckons human rights has become politicised, eh? Dr Martin Hirst says it's ...  
Abbott Government misleads public over citizenship

The Abbott Government's discussion paper on citizenship misleads Australians about the rights and ...  
The unpaid bill: Labor and moral equivocation on same sex marriage

Is Labor’s current push to legalise same-sex marriage an attempt to claw back the leftist ...  
More arguments against the Dutton plan

Dutton Law, the latest brainfart from a government bereft of common sense, would see the likes of ...