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Exposed: Overseas students most at risk in housing market underbelly
By Charlotte WalklingHome alone: An international student’s tale of rentsploitation
By Charlotte WalklingInternational student Sunita was new to Australia and knew little about her rights. Charlotte Walkling reports on one woman’s experience of serial exploitation in the informal rental market.
Bangladesh is now a one party State
By Anika BasetIn 2024, more voters than ever in history – some 49% of the global population – will head to the polls. Anika Baset reflects on the brutal fall of democracy in Bangladesh, a country of 170 million people.
Celebrating International Mother Language Day: Embracing First Peoples’ Languages
By Ngarra MurrayOn International Day of The Mother Tongue, Ngarra Murray reflects on the importance of embracing First Peoples’ languages in Australia.
Don’t let your grief close you off to others
By Anika BasetAnika Baset reflects on her Muslim identity after the attacks on October 7 and the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza that has followed.
Abuse thrives behind youth prison walls
By Monique HurleyContributors
Review: ‘The Palestine Laboratory’
By Samaya Argüello‘The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology Occupation Around the World’ is a must read for those wanting to understand how the oppression of Palestinians is intertwined with the export of military technologies worldwide.
“Pipelining children into prisons does not make communities safer – it only serves to undermine it and destroy children’s lives in the process.”
Monique Hurley, Human Rights Law Centre