Death, Beatings Highlight the Horrors of Australia’s Manus Island Refugee...
Australia (GV) – A number of disturbing cases concerning the offshore Asylum Seeker Detention Centre on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island have recently captured online attention in Australia and beyond....
View Article‘Who is the government protecting from what?’: Borders and Backlashes in...
Australia (NM) – Australia’s border regime has been in the press an awful lot of late. Lauded by fringe Neo-Nazis in Germany, in 2015 our former Prime Minister Tony Abbott told a London audience that...
View ArticleWorld Happiness Day report says Americans are not very happy
World (PC) – But much of Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand are. The first World Happiness Report was published in April, 2012, in support of the UN High Level Meeting on happiness and well-being....
View ArticlePlans for Coal Mine Near Great Barrier Reef Alarm Environmentalists
Australia (Sputnik) – Beset with vocal public opposition, significant legal barriers and a host of ecological threats, a hotly disputed coal mine in Queensland, northern Australia, is nonetheless set...
View ArticleAustralia’s Cells of Horror
(HRW) – Drugged, naked, left covered in feces and locked in a seclusion room for more than five hours without food or water. Repeatedly falling and hurting yourself in a dark cell while your distress...
View ArticleMassive Spill Kept Secret: Australia Oil Regulator Hid Key Leak Data for Months
(Sputnik) – Australia’s governmental oil watchdog group knew for months about a previously uncontrolled underwater oil leak but kept the information hidden from the public until now. The National...
View ArticleTom Price Bought Drug Stocks. Then He Pushed Pharma’s Agenda in Australia
Australia/United States (ProPublica) – Before he was named Trump’s health secretary, Price took a congressional trip to Australia and pressed officials to extend protections for drug companies in an...
View ArticleAustralia’s Abusive Asylum Policy Rebuked Again
(HRW) – This week, the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights reviewed Australia’s asylum policy. Once again, Australia’s officials were both disingenuous and unconvincing in...
View ArticleLeaked Transcript Exposes Australia’s Unlawful Refugee Policy
(HRW) – The leaked transcript of the infamous January 28 phone call between US President Donald Trump and Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has some extraordinary revelations. It confirms how...
View ArticleAustralia: Shelve Proposed Law to Weaken Encryption
(HRW) – The Australian government should not force technology companies to weaken the security of their products or to subvert encryption, Human Rights Watch said last week in a letter to Prime...
View ArticleThe Australia Model for Gun Control Is Useless
(FEE) – In the wake of the mass shooting in Las Vegas, which left dozens dead and hundreds wounded, a great number of people have laid the blame on America’s relatively lax gun laws and alleged...
View ArticleHumanitarian Crisis Escalates at Australia’s Refugee Detention Centre in...
(GV) – A fully blown humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Papua New Guinea at the recently decommissioned Manus Island Regional Processing Centre, the much-criticised detention facility where for years...
View Article‘Shocking’ Detention of Australia’s Aboriginal Children
(HRW) – The camera shows a slightly built 13-year-old boy pacing in a tiny cell, pausing every so often to lean against the wall, his head buried in his arms, his body trembling. Three guards rush in...
View ArticleVictoria Becomes the First Australian State to Pass Voluntary Assisted Dying...
(GVO) – The Australian state of Victoria is the first in the country to have passed voluntary assisted dying [VAD] legislation. This historic decision by the Victorian parliament has been very...
View Article‘I Now Feel Free and Can Live My Life.’ Australian Commission Gives Voice to...
(GV) – Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse was always certain to stir controversy, particularly with regard to the Catholic Church, and it did just that when...
View ArticleTop Secret Australian Government Cabinet Files Accidentally Sold Inside...
(GV) – As the cliché goes, you couldn’t make this stuff up. Classified documents from five Australian administrations covering nearly 10 years were accidentally sold in two locked filing cabinets at a...
View ArticleAustralian Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce Quits As Private Affair...
(GV) – Colourful, unconventional and controversial Australian politician Barnaby Joyce has announced his resignation as leader of the National Party and Deputy Prime Minister of Australia effective on...
View ArticleSenior Vatican Cardinal George Pell to stand trial on sexual offence charges...
(GV) – The third most senior Vatican cardinal, Australia’s George Pell, is to stand trial on multiple sexual offence charges dating as far back as the 1970s. Melbourne Magistrate Belinda Wallington...
View ArticleAustralian Coroner’s Report a Refugee Tragedy
(HRW) – Hamid Khazaei was a fit and healthy young man when he arrived on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island in September 2013, transferred there by the Australian government under its draconian...
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