Essays & reportage
11 December 2012
In this edited version of a recent Dunstan Foundation lecture, Dennis Altman looks at forty years of gay liberation and the work still to be done
National affairs
10 August 2012
The expert panel on asylum seekers can create the environment for the kind of leadership that has characterised key points in the history of Australia’s migration policy,…
Books & arts
19 July 2012
Andy Lamey’s book, Frontier Justice, would make useful reading for the prime minister’s expert panel on asylum seekers, writes Klaus Neumann
International
21 July 2010
Australia’s embassy is reopening in Lima because Peru’s internal conflict is considered to be over. But the impact of the violence lives on, writes Elizabeth Bryer
International
5 July 2010
The world’s largest trial for crimes against humanity is exhuming Argentina’s era of state terrorism, murder and torture. It is a trial with global resonance, writes…
National affairs
21 May 2010
“Mrs Bao” is still waiting for the Australian government to respond to requests from the Commonwealth ombudsman and the United Nations Human Rights Committee.…
National affairs
3 November 2009
Two novels, two realities. Brian Toohey looks at what fiction can tell us about governments and human rights
National affairs
15 October 2009
The size and scope of the human rights consultation adds to the momentum for reform, but the government will need to move shrewdly, writes Edward Santow
National affairs
11 September 2009
Victoria’s human rights charter has yielded a stunning victory for criminal suspects – and a blow for would-be Jack Bauers, reports Jeremy Gans.
National affairs
19 August 2009
The release of the government’s security law proposals reveals that the Coalition’s approach still casts a long shadow, writes Andrew Lynch
Essays & reportage
3 June 2009
Government policy should confer rights rather than privileges, writes Klaus Neumann
National affairs
21 May 2009
The first successful Victorian human rights claim has implications for the debate about a federal rights charter, argues Jeremy Gans
National affairs
5 February 2009
Lost in the Christmas rush was the release of John Clarke’s report on the Haneef affair. Andrew Lynch looks at what the inquiry did – and didn’t – uncover
National affairs
3 December 2008
Unlike the European Union, Canada and the United States, Australia has no guaranteed protection for people at risk of serious harm in their home country. But that looks set to…
Essays & reportage
10 November 2008
Has fear of upsetting the public caused Victoria’s new human rights charter to lose its way? It’s a question with national implications, writes Jeremy Gans