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By Helen Carrick Founder of Reading for Reconciliation In a Brisbane suburban lounge room in 2004, a diverse group aged from their 20s to 70s gathered to discuss Ros Kidd’s ‘The way we civilize’, which Professor Marcia Langton has described as a “ground-breaking history in the lives of Aboriginal people.” Some participants belonged to social …
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This Mother’s Day, blogger and mum Kathleen Zwiener looks at ways we can raise our children to have a social conscience. As I lay in the hospital bed after the birth of my first child, stroking the soft down on his newborn head, realisation swept over me: every person wrongly imprisoned, every asylum seeker locked …
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From Trump’s attacks on the media, to the record number of journalists currently languishing behind bars – not to mention those being tortured and killed simply for reporting on human rights abuses – our right to free speech is under attack. Now more than ever, we value our right to a free and independent press and respect …
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By Milly Stilinovic Famed Irish author and playwright Oscar Wilde once said that “it is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” With this in mind, and as hundreds of countries unite on the 23 April to celebrate UNESCO’s World Book and Copyright …
Sara Saleh is an Arab-Australian human rights and refugee advocate, grassroots activist and artist. My name is ethnically ‘ambiguous’, but it is actually a Hebrew name with British spelling that rolls off an Australian tongue worn by me, Sara – an Arab, Muslim woman. A name palatable to mainstream, never mispronounced in school roll call …
By Wing Hong Chu Wing Hong also goes by (Vee) is the Co-founder of the Adelaide Amnesty International LGBTQI Network, current convenor of the Adelaide Artillery Network and former convenor of the Flinders University Amnesty International Activist Group To celebrate the recent success of our marriage equality campaign, Amnesty International Australia has given two interstate …
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Abdu Salam stayed in his village as Myanmar soldiers and local vigilantes burned down dozens of homes there last August. He stayed as news spread of atrocities that soldiers had committed in other Rohingya villages across northern Rakhine State, Myanmar. He stayed because Hpon Nyo Leik village was his home, the only home he’d known, …
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By Milly Stilinovic The road to gender parity may seem long, but here are six ways you can help further the rights of women in 2018 to bring us all closer to equality. Throughout history, concerted efforts have been made to lift the profile of women in society; suffrage, liberation, the right to own property, …
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“In prison they would hit us often,” said Ousman, who spent five months in a Tripoli, Libya detention centre in 2016. “They killed many boys. I saw many people dying in prison, either because they fell sick or were beaten.” Ousman is just one of hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants who have braved …
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As Australians around the country await the results of the marriage equality survey, due to be announced on 15 November, Professor Mark McMillan explains why marriage equality matters to him, his family and his community. Society can change I am a proud Wiradjuri man and I come from a line of strong, sovereign Wiradjuri women. …
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