In August 1962, I turned ten in the isolation ward at Melbourne’s Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital.
It wasn’t jail, but it felt like it was; I was alone, scared and hadn’t seen my mum for three weeks.…
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CAMPAIGNERS for the nation’s most vulnerable have told Canberra to suspend punitive and ineffective mutual obligation requirements, which are causing stress and mental health illness for unemployed and underemployed people struggling through COVID.…
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THE detention of the Murugappan family has attracted international attention this week after the hospitalisation of the youngest child, Tharnicaa, with a blood infection in Perth. The Tamil family have been held on Christmas Island since August 2019 when Australian Border Authorities…
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The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre strongly supports the Australian Human Rights Commission’s 20 recommendations outlined today in their report Management of COVID-19 risks in immigration detention. The review assessed the adequacy and appropriateness of measures taken in response to COVID-19 risks against international…
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Homelessness Australia has welcomed the Federal Government’s decision to scrap a planned $56.7 million cut to homelessness services but lamented another budget and another year without Federal Government action on social housing. The budget includes $124.7 million which reverses the planned cut…
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AN alliance of consumers, unions, health professionals and providers in the aged care sector will be watching closely as the May federal budget draws near to ensure the federal government acts on the recommendations in the Royal Commission final report. At the…
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The Fred Hollows Foundation, ANTaR National, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists (RANZCO), the Diversity Council Australia (DCA) and Australia’s first Aboriginal ophthalmologist Associate Professor Kris Rallah-Baker are together calling for the government to commit to a referendum on…
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On 27 April, the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) healthcare provider, International Health and Medical Services (IHMS), attended court in Sydney to face criminal charges relating to the death of a person seeking asylum in one of Australia’s detention centres. These charges…
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FOUNDED in 1927, the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia (Victoria) (NCJWA Vic) originated at a time when women were virtually unrepresented in any Australian Parliament. Seeking a platform to ensure a better world for all, Dr Fanny Reading established a…
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International Women’s Development Agency has joined Australian civil society organisations calling for the Australian Government to take further action against the military coup in Myanmar. Women’s rights activists are at the frontline of peaceful protests calling for a federal democracy in Myanmar.…
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