Activism
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Hidden women of history: Catherine Hay Thomson, the Australian undercover journalist who went inside asylums and hospitals
Hay Thomson’s two-part article, The Female Side of Kew Asylum for The Argus newspaper revealed the conditions women endured in…
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Australia Has Spent More Than $4.5 Million Trying To Deport The Young Family On Christmas Island
The Australian government has spent more than $4.5 million in its attempt to expel a Sri Lankan family of four,…
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Human Rights Watch launches damning report on China, urging action against oppression and abuses
HRW executive director Kenneth Roth was due to launch the World Report 2020 at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Hong…
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has limited time to speak to lawyers in fight against US extradition
After skipping bail in the United Kingdom, Assange spent seven years holed up in Ecuador’s embassy in London before he…
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Human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh jailed ‘for 38 years’ in Iran
Nasrin Sotoudeh, an internationally renowned human rights lawyer jailed in Iran, has been handed a new sentence that her husband…
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An issue of freedom: US treatment of Assange risks souring alliance
Type Collateral Murder into the search engine and you sit behind the gun-sight camera of an Apache gunship circling a…
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As Hong Kong’s Leader Pledges to ‘Listen Humbly,’ Protesters Return to the Streets
Local media reported that the city’s Victoria Park—the traditional staging ground for large protests—began to fill up from the early…
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Jailed British mother joins hunger strike in support of Australian held in Iran
A fellow dual national prisoner will go on a hunger strike in an Iranian jail in solidarity with British-Australian academic…
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Protest has helped define the first two decades of the 21st century – here’s what’s next
Partly a product of sinking confidence in mainstream politics, mass mobilisation has had a huge impact on both official politics…
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Kylie Moore-Gilbert, Australian academic jailed in Iran, begins hunger strike in Tehran prison
Melbourne University lecturer Kylie Moore-Gilbert has been held in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran since October 2018. ABC news…
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‘The forest is shedding tears’: the women defending their Amazon homeland
Illegal miners have offered 100g of gold to anyone who kills Maria Leusa Munduruku, a forest defender, indigenous leader and…
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Refugee’s overstay in New Zealand could fuel Aussie tensions
Behrouz Boochani traveled from Papua New Guinea in November on a temporary one-month visa to speak at a literary festival…
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Medevac asylum seekers detained in a Melbourne hotel for months
More than 45 men, formerly held in the Manus Island centre, are now confined to one floor of the $180-a-night…
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‘The torture must stop’: Doctors urge Australia to bring Julian Assange back home
More than 100 doctors have urged Australia to lobby for imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be returned home for…
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Greta Thunberg named Time Magazine’s 2019 Person of the Year
The 16-year-old activist is the youngest-ever named by the prestigious magazine. Luke Cooper 9News The magazine’s editor in chief, Edward…
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‘The World Has Not Forgotten Us.’ A Rohingya Activist Speaks as Myanmar Faces Genocide Case
It’s painful to see the person we regard as a leader, as a democracy icon and as a peace champion…
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