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Australia needs an Anti-Racism Framework now

WIDESPREAD discrimination is normal for Australian Muslims, according to a report by the Australian Human Rights Commission.  The report, released July 2021, shares the stories of Australian Muslims, inclusive of the good, bad, and ugly.   The ugly, otherwise known as Islamophobia is…

by Tia Haralabakos
August 19, 2021January 20, 2022
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Aid & Development/Politics/World/World News

Australia has a responsibility to Afghan refugees

THE Australian government’s response to the escalating refugee crisis in Afghanistan has been grossly inadequate, argues the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. Thousands of Afghans are currently at risk following the Taliban’s takeover of the capital and last remaining stronghold, Kabul. Women, journalists,…

by Sara Bolst
August 18, 2021January 21, 2022
293 views
Community/Health/Politics/Uncategorized

Australia’s National Plan to re-open does not involve kids

AUSTRALIAN parents want their kids vaccinated and back at school, according to a national poll by UNICEF. The results, released on August 11, 2021, found parents were overwhelmingly concerned about the academic effects of extended periods in lockdown. Learning loss was a…

by Tia Haralabakos
August 17, 2021January 21, 2022
203 views
Feature article Environment/Politics

Behind the scenes on the Barrier Reef decision

THE Spanish ambassador to UNESCO has revealed details of the Australian government’s negotiations to avoid an “in danger” listing for the Great Barrier Reef. Last month, the Morrison government succeeded in its bid to stop the World Heritage Committee declaring the reef…

by Cameron Doody
August 17, 2021January 21, 2022
192 views
Aid & Development/Politics/World News

Ethiopian children will starve and die as violent carnage continues

MASS child starvation is expected to rise tenfold in Ethiopia’s conflict-ridden Tigray region as warfare continues to shatter emergency supply lines. In 2019, Ethiopian President Abiy Ahmed claimed to distance the country from tense and longstanding ethnic nationalism by condensing regional parties…

by Elliot Goodyer
August 13, 2021January 21, 2022
183 views
Opinion/Politics

I celebrated my tenth birthday behind bars

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.…

by Carol Saffer
July 28, 2021January 24, 2022
323 views
Community/Politics

Government urged to give job precarious a fair go during lockdowns

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.…

by Ryan Fritz
July 27, 2021January 18, 2022
162 views
Feature article Community/Politics

Biloela family united but still in legal limbo

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…

by Amelia Costigan
June 25, 2021January 24, 2022
408 views
Aid & Development/Politics

The ASRC supports calls for the shutdown of Christmas Island Detention facilities

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…

by Ryan Fritz
June 16, 2021January 18, 2022
145 views
Community/Politics

Social housing ignored but Budget brings funding certainty to homelessness sector

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…

by Ryan Fritz
May 14, 2021January 13, 2022
128 views
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