Australasia
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Coalition government spent $6m prosecuting Bernard Collaery and three other whistleblowers
The former Coalition government spent almost $6m prosecuting Bernard Collaery, Witness K, Richard Boyle and David McBride over their actions…
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Young women’s memoirs of migration, dispossession and Australian ‘unbelonging’ demand to be heard
Her memoir begins at the age of five, when she fled with her mother and her three siblings from civil…
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Why does everyone seem to have food intolerances these days?
One friend is gluten-free, another is dairy-free, one can’t eat onion and two more are vegetarian. Evangeline Mantzioris The Conversation…
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The world’s affluent must start eating local food to tackle the climate crisis, new research shows
It reveals how transporting food across and between countries generates almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions from the food sector…
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Australians Show Strong Support For Refugees: New Research
The research, commissioned as part of Amnesty’s annual Human Rights Barometer, shows that 72% of Australians support either maintaining or…
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UK govt approves extradition of Assange; he plans to appeal
WikiLeaks said it would appeal. Hurriyet Home Secretary Priti Patel signed the extradition order on Friday, her department said. It…
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Boats are not the problem, it’s the 130,000 asylum seekers living here
The recent spate of asylum-seeker boats is due to the combination of an economic crisis in Sri Lanka and a…
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CCC launches lobbying audit amid surge and ‘disproportionate’ access
Queensland’s anti-corruption agency has announced an audit of public records involving lobbying activity after a recent surge and the appearance…
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Older Australians are being abused by their own families. Deanne takes their calls for help
Aylin* is aged in her 70s. – Sandra Fulloon – SBS Recently, she sought help after surviving a…
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Efforts to combat far-right extremism must not curtail civil liberties, Victorian inquiry hears
The Victorian government must be careful not to blindly expand executive powers, surveillance and censorship in its bid to combat…
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Reimagining Age Equality At Work
Now, age equality needs a voice to ensure a more equal future in the workplace In 2015, the Australian Human Rights…
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Lawyers urged to fight for disability rights
Dr Dinesh Palipana sat down with host Jerome Doraisamy of The Lawyers Weekly Show to talk about the inspiring journey…
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Welcome, strangers: Queen’s Birthday Honour for asylum seeker advocate
She saw that with help from the community, they could not just survive but thrive. Carolyn Webb The Age It’s…
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Pablo Picasso was not a lone genius creator – he was at the centre of several creative hubs, and changed the course of western art
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is not presented as the lone genius creator – a mythology promoted by the artist himself –…
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Australian methane emissions massively underestimated – report
And unless quick action is taken, it could prevent the country from reaching its emission reduction targets. Tiffanie Turnbull BBC…
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The whole idea of Home Affairs and its constituent parts needs revisiting
Home Affairs has been repeatedly criticised by bodies such as the Australian National Audit Office for waste and mismanagement of…
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