Report: Years Later, Wildfires Blaze on in Survivors’ Minds
Charlie Hertzog Young
Three-quarters of survivors of Australian bushfires struggle with anxiety two years on. Charlie Hertzog Young reports.
Tag: australia
Novara Live: PartyGate Photos Leaked, Johnson’s Nasty Advisors, Australia’s New PM
After the police cleared Boris Johnson of all but one rule breach, photos have emerged of the PM drinking booze at a separate gathering during lockdown. How have the Met let him get away with it? Plus: Australia has a new PM and the Tories are still all over the place on an energy company windfall tax.
Analysis: Novak Djokovic’s Detention Exposed Australia’s Brutal Border Regime
Dominic McGovern
Djokovic experienced a mere fraction of the brutality thousands of undocumented migrants are subjected to every day - and he's already been set free. The sports star's case should be a wake-up call to the world, writes Dominic McGovern: nobody should be treated this way.
Opinion: Military Interventions Won’t Solve Climate Change
Hannah Martin
As the effects of climate change worsen for many across the globe, merely reacting is not enough. We must take proactive, preventative steps to tackle the problem, argues Hannah Martin.
Opinion: The Australian Bushfire Crisis: Are Liberal Protests Undermining the Real Solution?
Jessica Syed
Australia's bushfire protests must foreground indigenous perspectives or risk being politically futile, argues Jessica Syed.
Ash Wednesday: Settler Colonialism Is Behind Climate Denial
Australia is on fire. So why do so many of it’s politicians seem intent on denying the cause?
Long Read: 5 Things You Should Know About the Australian Election
Robbie Fordyce
This weekend Australia will elect its newest administration. In recent years, Australian leadership spills have happened at a breakneck speed, with most prime ministers barely cracking two years, and none seeing out a full term.
Refugees in Indonesia and Iraq Condemn Western Indifference
Matt Broomfield
Coverage of the 'refugee crisis' tends to focus on the West, particularly on Europe, but none of the seven countries worldwide to host over half a million refugees are in the EU or North America. Instead, most refugees live on the periphery, confined to squalid, brutal detention centres and stripped of even the scant protection afforded to asylum-seekers on European shores.
It’s Not Australia Day, It’s Invasion Day – and Its Violent Legacy Lives On
Latoya Rule
No matter what anyone says, Australia Day isn’t about celebrating 'diversity' or 'multiculturalism' - it’s about whitewashing state violence against oppressed peoples past and present, writes Latoya Rule.
Long Read: ‘Who is the government protecting from what?’: Borders and Backlashes in Australia’s Long Sixties
Jon Piccini
As nationalist politicians line up to praise Australia's border policing, Jon Piccini examines the history of its migration policy - and the resistance it engendered - during the 'long sixties' of 1966-72.
Boats, Borders, Brutality: Australia’s Refugee Policy
Scott Wark
Last week’s Muslim ban provoked outrage across the globe. But with the mandatory detention of asylum seekers in offshore camps and forced ‘boat turnbacks’, Australia’s border regime is arguably even worse than Trump’s.
Australia’s Unsatisfying Political Landscape Won’t Be Fixed by E-Voting
Robbie Fordyce
Recent federal elections have left Australia's political status quo largely intact, but lengthy ballot counts have turned people towards the prospect of e-voting.
5 Things You Need to Know About Indonesia’s Occupation of West Papua
Connor Woodman
Indonesia's president, Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo, signed five cooperation agreements with the UK during his recent tour of the EU despite the history of atrocities being committed in the country's easternmost provinces.
Australia’s #Libspill: The Regicide of Tony Abbott
Robbie Fordyce
This week the Liberal party leadership challenge - a.k.a. #Libspill - has rocked Australian politics and media. Within hours the challenge being made official, the infamous PM Tony Abbott had been given his marching orders, replaced by a party lieutenant.