Community networks

Despite cuts to funding, Community Legal Centres NSW won’t be deterred from its work in supporting community legal centres in NSW.

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Inquiry into children in detention

The Australian Human Rights Commission is currently holding an inquiry into children in immigration detention, looking at the short- and long-term impact detention has on children. Continue Reading →

What’s up with #auspol?

Our weekly ‘newspaper’ trawls the twitterverse to bring you all the hottest stories and links in the murky world of Australian politics. Continue Reading →

Asylum seekers – the sad state of affairs

The site of Senators Kate Lundy and George Brandis slugging it out on Monday night’s episode of Q&A on ABC Television pretty much summed up the sad state of affairs in the national political debate on asylum seekers – lots of talk, argument, grandstanding, pontificating, blame, but not much listening.

This, of course, is not an issue that is going to go away quickly, and there are no easy solutions for the ALP, politically speaking.

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Australia’s youngest prisoners

Last year, Australia marked the 20-year anniversary of the adoption of the Convention of the Rights of the Child but with 1,048* children currently in immigration detention, there is little to celebrate. Ingrid Maack reports.

Australians watched in horror last December as we saw televised images of a boatload of refugees swept into the sea off Christmas Island.

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Breaking the silence on abuse

Child abuse was highlighted during 2002 with the allegation that a number of churches and institutions had covered up incidents of child sexual abuse. Eddy Jokovich looks at the history of child abuse in Australia and welcomes the end of one of our country’s great silences. Continue Reading →