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Published in: 50.50Doing business at the border: abuse, complicity and legality
As abuses in Australia’s detention centres become increasingly stark, there are growing calls for the boycott of a...
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Published in: HomePapua New Guinea High Court ruling: the asylum seeker detention centre on Manus Island must close
But the main power blocks in Australia politics – the ALP and the Coalition – show no signs at all of even blushing,...
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Published in: HomeAsylum seeker dies from self-inflicted burns
An Iranian asylum seeker has died after setting himself on fire at an Australian detention centre on the remote...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaEliminating malaria for good
Malaria is widespread in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It is commonly associated with poverty and has...
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Published in: HomeIs #LetThemStay Australia’s anti-apartheid moment?
People inside and outside of Australia stand up to challenge a system that seeks to construct physical and imagined...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWorld poverty: the misconceptions of the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
Poverty is not an individual problem of lack of resources that can be solved through education. The problem is the...
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Published in: HomeSri Lanka and the politics of justice
Truth and reconciliation is a project which inevitably needs to balance short term politics against long term...
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Published in: HomeAustralian medics refuse to be silenced over refugee abuse at detention centers
A new gag law has turned refugee policy into a free speech issue, mobilizing health professionals to oppose the...
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Published in: HomeWhy Australia can’t keep its prime ministers
Enter our new Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull. Let's be clear: the right's program will not change now that its leader has.
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Published in: HomeRoadmap to reconciliation: 4 post-election challenges for Sri Lanka
Muscular Sinhalese nationalism was defeated at the polls in Sri Lanka. The dismantling of the security state,...
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Published in: TransformationIs Australia going backwards on gender equality?
I left Pakistan to live in a society that was supposedly free from bias and discrimination. What happened?
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Published in: HomeAustralia's cruel treatment of gay asylum-seekers
Australia continues to resettle homosexual refugees in homophobic Papua New Guinea. Gay men seeking asylum are both...
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Published in: 50.50Enduring civilisation, enduring empire?
The "Indigenous Australia: enduring civilisation" exhibition at the British Museum leads to the overarching question...
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Published in: openSecurityNepal: chronicle of a disaster foretold
The Nepalese earthquake was a product of natural causes. But the full death toll and slow recovery are not.
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Published in: openSecurityIndonesia regresses with the use of the death penalty
The prospect of execution of two Australians in Indonesia has caught international media attention, amid Australian...
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Published in: HomeSurvival Day: reclaiming Australia’s history
Why should Australia acknowledge its bloody past on Australia Day? Firstly, this is a fundamental question of dignity.
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Published in: openSecuritySpace shrinking for freedom of expression in South Korea
‘National security’ is often the card played by states denying human rights. With the North Korean dictatorship next...
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Published in: HomeSubsidising climate change
We need to raise awareness about how the rich oil nations keep subsidising oil extraction whilst agreeing that the...
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Published in: openSecurityTensions rise between India and Pakistan
International constraint and mutual nuclear deterrence may have prevented all-out war with Pakistan in the past over...
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Published in: HomeThe fog of peace: post-conflict environments as sites of impunity, denial and dispossession
Too often the sterile, objective needs of capital, for a range of reasons, take precedence over the subjective needs...