Editorial: Blind Justice
A recent survey by the Sentencing Advisory Council has found that two thirds of respondents felt that judges are out of touch with society. In response, the Victorian Attorney-General has claimed that...
View ArticleHaving a Say: Prisoners and Voting Rights
This article is part of our February theme, which focuses on one of the great silences in the human rights conversation in Australia: Prisoners’ Rights. Read our Editorial for more on this theme. This...
View ArticleThis Week’s Human Rights News
17 February 2012 Report detailing raid that killed five Afghani children is suppressed by Defence Department The Age has reported that Australia’s Defence Minister, Stephen Smith, has suppressed the...
View ArticleTHIS WEEK’S HUMAN RIGHTS NEWS
11 May 2012 Federal Government announces budget On Tuesday, the Federal Government announced its budget for 2012-2013 which included plans to scrap billions from company tax cuts and redirect money to...
View ArticleHRAFF Wrap – Mid-Week Review
By Sam Ryan, with Andre Dao, Olivia McMillan, Maya Chanthaphavong, Oliver Ramsay, Jess O’Callaghan, Laura Jones, Alana Lazdins and Sonia Nair. More of Right Now’s HRAFF coverage, including reviews,...
View ArticleHomelessness and Voting
This article is a part of our August focus on Homelessness in Australia – you can access more content from this issue here. By Heidi Pett Australians all have ostriches. That’s how I sang the national...
View ArticleDisability and Voting Rights
By Nathan Despott and Asher Hirsch You could be forgiven for thinking that Australia’s progressive legislation around inclusion has created an equitable Eden of voting rights. We use postal votes and...
View Article10 Landmark Cases: How to Protect Rights Without a Bill of Rights
Last month, Right Now focused on rights issues and cultural shifts. In this article, we look at 10 landmark cases that arguably shifted how rights are protected in Australia. Australia has passed far...
View ArticleConscience Vote: the human rights records of Indonesia’s presidential candidates
By Melissa Reid Indonesia, one of Australia’s closest and largest neighbours, is approaching its third democratic elections. On 9 April, Indonesians will head to the polls for the legislative elections...
View ArticleA Not-so-bright Future for Burma
By Monique Hurley On 3 March 2015, the Australian Embassy issued a joint statement with a number of other countries welcoming the political reforms that have taken place in Burma, particularly the...
View ArticleHow Representative is our Parliament?
By Rose Hunter While many Australians may think Australia is a healthy democracy, a closer examination of our parliamentary representation tells a different story. Here you’ll find a brief overview of...
View ArticleMyanmar election: what about the Rohingya?
Elections took place in Myanmar over the weekend, marking the country’s first free nationwide poll in 25 years. Yanghee Lee, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, has described the...
View Article200,000 New Zealanders live in Australia without a helping hand
At least 200,000 New Zealanders live in Australia today without a social security safety net or direct pathway to citizenship. They are ineligible for unemployment and sickness benefits, the National...
View ArticleChoosing between Labor and the Greens
How to Vote Progressive in Australia Edited by Dennis Altman and Sean Scalmer Monash University Publishing “There is a timidity in current Australian political thought, expressed in declining...
View ArticleOne nation of fear
As the results of the federal election gradually trickle in, one thing seems abundantly clear: fear is the most effective political tool today. Labor proved it with a scare campaign about Medicare,...
View ArticleBrexit’s lessons for Australia
Though the advance of the Leave campaign was worrying, from the bubble of Cambridge where I lived at the time, the idea that Britain would actually vote for Brexit seemed unthinkable. Even in the early...
View ArticleYoung Australians agitating for change
Generation Less – How Australia is Cheating the Young Jennifer Rayner Black Inc Generation Y. The selfish generation. The lazy generation. The absent-minded, flighty generation. Is this really us? Or...
View ArticlePopulism, Trump and the perils of ‘Dutertopia’
It’s been over three months since Rodrigo Duterte was installed as president of the Philippines. Social Weather Stations puts his national net satisfaction rating at a positive 64 per cent, despite the...
View ArticleNotes from a post-election America
On November 8th, 1pm Eastern Standard Time, I was in a stranger’s Philadelphia living room. The front yard was full of rotting pumpkins and the air was crisp. A cat was purring on the couch in a dark...
View ArticleRedemption
They will instruct you to shed your clothes, for the colour of your attire, may resemble the shades of a flag. You don’t belong to a nation – they will tell you. You belong to a religion. Then, they...
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