Why New Zealand’s proposed law banning conversion practices is so unlikely to criminalise parents
Given all parliamentary parties have said they oppose conversion practices being performed on LGBTQ+ people, you could be forgiven for…
Brad Hazzard is wrong about multicultural western Sydney: new research shows refugees do trust institutions
With COVID numbers surging in Sydney’s multicultural western suburbs, NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard speculated that migrant and refugee communities…
View from The Hill: Barnaby Joyce repudiates Christensen’s COVID misinformation
Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce has dissociated himself from the views of his maverick backbencher George Christensen, who on Tuesday flatly…
The Beetaloo drilling program brings potential health and social issues for Aboriginal communities in remote NT
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been repeatedly harmed by policies and decisions that drive systematic dispossession, disempowerment, overincarceration…
Jawaharlal Nehru’s vision for a just and equitable post-colonial world, with India leading the way
This piece is part of a new series in collaboration with the ABC’s Saturday Extra program. Each week, the show…
Nowhere to hide: the significance of national cabinet not being a cabinet
When is a cabinet not a cabinet? When it is really an intergovernmental body that is pretending to be a…
Increased incarceration of First Nations women is interwoven with the experience of violence and trauma
There is a national incarceration crisis impacting First Nations women in Australia. First Nations women are the fastest-growing prison population,…
To enable healing, there’s a more effective way to Close the Gap in employment in remote Australia
Talk of healing, care, and well-being is woven throughout the refreshed Closing the Gap agreement. These things were also central…
A New Book Gathers Every Single Documented Frida Kahlo Painting, Including Lost Works—See Images Here
Despite her lasting fame, Frida Kahlo made surprisingly few works in her life. Now, all 152 of the artist’s documented paintings have…
‘I don’t think the police would do much’: new research shows racism during COVID is rarely reported
It’s not “new” news that Asian Australians are experiencing high rates of racism during the pandemic. However, existing data under-represent…
Vaccination rate needs to hit 70% to trigger easing of restrictions
Seven in ten people aged 16 and over will need to be fully vaccinated for COVID restrictions to begin to…
The power of no: Simone Biles, Naomi Osaka and Black women’s resistance
Simone Biles, the US gymnast widely considered “the greatest of all time”, withdrew from the Olympic finals this week, saying:…
Strapped for Cash, Mexico Will Re-Bury a Tunnel Filled With Aztec Petroglyphs That Was Meant to Become a Tourist Site
When a historic tunnel was discovered on the outskirts of Mexico City two years ago, the government decided to turn…
Fiji’s other crisis: away from the COVID emergency, political dissent can still get you arrested
The arrest of nine Fijian opposition politicians, including party leaders and two former prime ministers, once again exposes Fijian democracy’s…