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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
Maori
- Maori
- Patricia Grace’s literary legacy: giving Māori characters their ‘natural’ voice (Feb ’20)
- Māori have been robbed of our identity and our land – we must fight to get them back (Feb ’20)
- Jacinda Ardern is right, Waitangi Day is imperfect. But the flaws are intentional (Feb ’20)
- We must dismantle our colonial system and rebuild it with Māori at the heart (Feb ’20)
- The haka isn’t yours – stop performing it (Jan ’20)
- Here’s why the UK wants to heal the scars of its colonial past with Māori (Jan ’20)
- On every issue important to Māori this government is failing (Nov ’19)
- Cook’s arrival was a disaster for Māori. Britain’s half-hearted apology isn’t good enough (Oct ’19)
Racism
- Miscellaneous
- Sensationalist media is exacerbating racist coronavirus fears. We need to combat it (Feb ’20)
- Doctors and nurses at Melbourne hospital racially abused over coronavirus panic (Feb ’20)
- I’d never heard of Laurence Fox until he started lecturing us about racism (Jan ’20)
- How to Argue with a Racist by Adam Rutherford review – we’re all related (Feb ’20)
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
Healthcare
- Immunotherapy
- Miscellaneous
- Employment Outlook: Health Care and Social Assistance
- As coronavirus spreads, I am terrified that Australia’s fear and greed could cost my son his life (Mar ’20)
- RACP says withholding treatment for transgender youth ‘unethical’ and calls for national care plan (Mar ’20)
- What is a rare disease? It’s not as simple as it sounds (Feb ’20)
- The spread of super-specialisation is an alarming problem of modern medicine (Feb ’20)
- Medical cannabis: Why are doctors still not prescribing it? (Nov ’19) — (UK)
- Making space: how designing hospitals for Indigenous people might benefit everyone (Dec ’19)
- Consulting with Dr. Google (Oct ’19)
- If doctors have a duty of care to all, why crowdfund for surgery? (Jun ’19)
- Why aren’t we curing the world’s curable diseases (Oct ’17)
Economy
- Economy
- The unemployment rate doesn’t go back to normal after a recession – there are long-term effects (Mar ‘20)
- With borrowing effectively free, why be scared of government debt? (Mar ’20)
- Older, wiser but underemployed: no longer can it be treated with indifference (Feb ’20)
- Australia to overtake Qatar on LNG field by 2020 – EnergyQuest (Feb ’20)
- If Australia’s resources were taxed the way Norway’s are, we could secure the future of our schools (Feb ’20)
- … (Related)
- Is the economy stirring? Sorry, no. Things could get even worse (Feb ’20)
- Former productivity commissioner attacks Coalition’s economic plan (Jan ’20)
- Fleecing Australia: Tax Office data dump shows the usual large culprits paying no tax (Dec ’19)
- Secrets and Lies: how franking credits stole the tax bonanza (Dec ’19)
- Ten companies pay 45% of all corporate tax in Australia (Dec ’18)
- Government’s empty agenda has been hidden in plain sight, but Reserve Bank has made it clear it’s time to act (Jul ’19)
- Fact Check: Will $77 billion worth of Coalition tax cuts go to people earning more than $180,000? (Jun ’19)
- ‘Staggering’: $90 billion lost in Resources Tax (Mar ’18)
- Beware tax cuts for ‘Middle Australia’. Above-average earners benefit most (May ’16)
- Economic Growth: An Unnecessary Evil (Nov ’12)
