Human Rights
First Nations women speak out about Treaty at Redfern (Friday 21/3/15)

Natalie Cromb, along with other prominent First Nations women, including Rosalie Kunoth-Monks ...  
Living in remote Indigenous communities is not a 'lifestyle choice'

Whereas Tony Abbott applauds the closing down of remote Indigenous communities in WA, calling ...  
The song of the Bali Two executioners: Jokowi vs Gibran

As time seemingly ticks down on the condemned Bali Two, contributing editor-at-large Tess Lawrence ...  
EXCLUSIVE: How Morrison's Australia crushed the life out of little Febrina

In the wake of the Forgotten Children report, Trevor Grant investigates the damage inflicted upon ...  
Julian Burnside: Independent media for reality's sake

Human rights advocate and barrister Julian Burnside AO QC talks about his disenchantment with ...  
EXCLUSIVE: Joko Widodo's son begs him to spare the lives of Chan and Sukumaran

Rifts develop as former Australian resident Gibran Rakabuming Raka, son of Indonesian President ...  
The Abbott Government and Sri Lanka's new regime

Tony Abbott will need to take a different approach to new Sri Lankan president Maithripala Siri ...  
Australia's complicity with brutal regime exposed

The Australian Government routinely treats human rights, the rule of law and the right to natural ...  
Shooting the messenger — forgetting the children

There are children and young people nearing suicide because Abbott is trying to bully and shame ...  
EXCLUSIVE: Tim Wilson already promised Gillian Triggs' job

Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson has allegedly been promised Professor Gillian Triggs' job as ...  
Sting in the Bali Two tale

Could Sting and an assortment of other bands and musicians persuade rock music fan President Joko ...  
Top lawyers and former PM Fraser slam Abbott's attacks on Triggs and AHRC

PM Tony Abbott's assertions about "good government" starting this week looked even more shaky ...  
Australia's imminent TPP disaster: Crowning corporations

The controvsial top-secret Trans-Pacific Partnership is due to be signed very soon and is likely ...  
Children in detention: A government without compassion

Prime Minister Tony Abbott dismisses a damning Human Rights Commission report into children in ...  
The TPP: The dirtiest, most dangerous trade deal you've probably never heard of

The secretive Trans Pacific Partnership is reportedly close to being finalised, which is bad news ...  
QCCL: LNP threatens civil rights as Labor backflips on VLAD laws

With Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk unveiling the ALP's law and order policy today ...  
Among the walking dead: Leo Seemanpillai and the Indian refugee camps

Acclaimed author of Sri Lanka's Secrets Trevor Grant visited refugee camps in India and spoke to ...  
Advance Australia unfair: Je suis les refugees du Manus

Australia's treatment of refugees on Manus Island has disturbing similarities to the treatment of ...