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,…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
