Social injustice, persistent disadvantage and racism are causing serious mental health problems for Indigenous people, Dr Maria Tomasic says in the lead-up to the annual conference of A-NZ psychiatrists. Dr Tomasic, president of their college (and also…
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has called for politicians to abandon short term political goals and treat asylum seekers and Indigenous disadvantage through a human rights-based approach. After a six-day visit here, she is also…
Australia’s foreign affairs chiefs fail in their responsibility to promote our human rights beliefs, values and interests properly, and so deliver a badly lop-sided public service. This is particularly so in the Pacific, and in Asia, CLA says in critiqu…
Death is certain, but older people observe frailer elders closing on finality in nursing homes and think there should be a better way, and an ultimate choice, without penalty. Former ACT Speaker Greg Cornwell believes it’s time for a national referendum.
Other nations, like Britain, can review and wind back oppressive, over-the-top laws created in panic after the Twin Towers aircraft attacks in New York 10 years ago. If so, why can’t Australia, asks Prof George Williams, where some of the laws are the w…
As Australians strive to recover our dead from Fromelles in France, stemming from a war a century ago, perhaps we ought to support demands in East Timor for Indonesia to reveal where it buried the skeletons from a more recent massacre?