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Biloela Family
- Biloela Family
- How the Biloela Tamil family deportation case highlights the failures of our refugee system (Mar ’20)
- Biloela family may spend months more on Christmas Island waiting on court decision (Feb ’20)
- How two women from a conservative Queensland town made the deportation of a local Tamil family national news (Feb ’20)
- What will happen to the Biloela family held on Christmas Island? (Feb ’20)
- Judge tells government to give documents to Biloela family’s lawyer after ‘overenthusiastic’ redactions (Feb ’20)
- Advocates demand Tamil family be removed from Christmas Island before Wuhan evacuees arrive (Feb ’20)
- Biloela family wait in Christmas Island limbo as Wuhan evacuees see out quarantine (Feb ’20)
- Four-year-old Christmas Island detainee to be escorted to first day of school by guards (Jan ’20)
- Australia has ignored the UN’s request to release the Tamil family from Christmas Island (Oct ’19)
- ‘Fast track’ asylum processing risks fairness for efficiency (Dec ’14)
Indigenous
- Treaty
- Justice System
- Tanya Day inquest: coroner refers death in custody of Aboriginal woman for possible prosecution (Apr ’20)
- ACT prison officers’ drawing of Aboriginal inmate ‘racist and hurtful’ (Mar ’20)
- Being Aboriginal with a disability a ‘double whammy’, royal commission told (Feb ’20)
- Coalition seeks to sidestep high court ruling that Aboriginal non-citizens can’t be deported (Feb ’20)
- Can Indigenous Australians be deported as ‘aliens’? A High Court decision will show us the strength of modern colonial power (Dec ’19)
- Shackling dying man Eric Whittaker to bed was ‘horrific’, coroner hears (Oct ’19)
- Inequality (Closing the Gap)
- Scott Morrison wants Indigenous people to help with Closing the Gap. They already are (Mar ’20)
- Even education has been used as a weapon of white supremacy in Australia (Jul ’19)
- Indigenous people no longer have the legal right to say no to the Adani mine – here’s what it means for equality (Sep ‘ 19)
- June Oscar’s 2020s vision: Reaching our potential as a nation begins with truth-telling (Jan ’20)
- The land the NDIS forgot: the remote Indigenous communities losing the postcode lottery (Nov ’19)
- History
- Massacres
- The Pinjarra massacre: it’s time to speak the truth of this terrible slaughter (Nov ’19)
- Blood, brains and foul murder: evidence of Australia’s massacres is in its newspapers (Nov ’19)
- Forced to build their own pyres: dozens more Aboriginal massacres revealed in Killing Times research (Nov ’19)
- The Killing Times (Nov ’19)
- Invasion Day
- Inclusion
- Stolen Generation
- Health Care
Mental Health
- Conversations
- We face a pandemic of mental health disorders. Those who do it hardest need our support (Mar ‘20)
- How do you start a conversation about mental health with someone who is depressed? (Oct ’19)
- Why I won’t tell someone who’s suicidal to ‘just ask for help’ (Aug ’19)
- Getting serious about mental health – Prof. Ian Hickie (Jan ’11)
- Causes
- Prevention
- Raise the Medicare levy to pay for mental health, says Victoria (Feb ’20)
- Middle-aged men make up the largest age-specific increase in suicides, but we can learn from history (Feb ’20)
- We need to move on from self-care to something that cannot be captured by capitalism (Jan ’20)
- 3 in 4 people with a mental illness develop symptoms before age 25. We need a stronger focus on prevention (Nov ’19)
- Support
- Myths
- Stories
- Discrimination
Environment/Climate Emergency
- Organisations
- Inaction
- NSW land-clearing approvals increased 13-fold since laws relaxed in 2016 (Mar ‘20)
- 30 years of Australia’s hollow promises on climate policy (Feb ’20)
- Our government is choosing to fail on climate and trying to make a virtue of it (Jan ’20)
- Talking Point: Governments face a reckoning in the courts over climate change failure (Jan ’20)
- Coalition claims it will meet 2030 emissions target – but only by using accounting loophole (Dec ’19)
- It’s the 10-year anniversary of our climate policy abyss. But don’t blame the Greens (Dec ’19)
- We thought Australian cars were using less fuel. New research shows we were wrong (Oct ’19)
- Reports
- Great Barrier Reef ‘too big to fail’ at $56b, Deloitte Access Economics report says (Jun ’17)
- Liberal Party links to coal industry – report (May ’19)
- Methane emissions from coalmines could stoke climate crisis – study (Nov ’19)
- Climate Change Performance Index – Australia ranked last (Dec ’19)
- Climate Contagion – Paul Gilding (Dec ’19)
- World Reaction
- Australia, your country is burning – dangerous climate change is here with you now – Michael Mann (Jan ’20)
- Australia is becoming a nation of dread – and the world looks on with pity and scorn (Jan ’20)
- Scientists hate to say ‘I told you so’. But Australia, you were warned (Jan ’20)
- Wake up, Australia: deceit and post-truth politics will not save you from the flames (Dec ’19)
- Cover Ups
- Conversations
- Community Action
- Outlook
Poverty
- Organisations
- Leadership
- Work
- Casual and migrant workers are at the mercy of an economy that punishes its victims (Apr ’20)
- Why temporary migrants need JobKeeper (Apr ’20)
- Delivery workers are now essential. They deserve the rights of other employees (Mar ’20)
- Anglicare finds five jobseekers applying for every entry-level position (Oct ’19)
- Jobactive workers speak out: ‘How the hell did I end up doing this to these people?’ (Oct ’19)
- Making an art form out of cruelty to people who are unemployed (Oct ’19)
- How to stop workers being exploited in the gig economy (Oct ’18)
- Disability