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Fighting for justice and dignity: Interview with Behrouz Boochani
By Roselina Press
The case for free phone calls in prison
By Monique Hurley and Sarah SchwartzImagine not being able to afford a single phone call to your family. That’s the reality for people in Australian prisons. Monique Hurley and Sarah Schwartz explain why phone calls in prison should be free.
Home 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.
Exposed: Overseas students most at risk in housing market underbelly
By Charlotte WalklingAustralia’s housing crisis hurts most those who know little about their rights. Charlotte Walkling investigates how overseas students are especially vulnerable to dodgy and downright illegal practices in the 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.
Labor’s Mandatory Sentencing Problem
By Michael StantonContributors
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