The Anthony Albanese government’s treatment of Palestinian refugees escaping the genocide in Gaza presents another blatant example of state-sponsored racism, argues Jonathan Strauss.
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Refugees and supporters gathered outside Minister for Home Affairs Clare O’Neil's office to demand permanent residency for the thousands of refugees on temporary visas. Chloe DS reports.
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Palestinian refugee Adnan Mansour told a public forum that Labor must “start seeing Palestinians as humans”. Chris Slee reports.
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Palestinians fleeing war-ravaged Gaza for safety in Australia were left stranded, but an outcry has forced Labor to reinstate some of the temporary visas, writes A Firenze.
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Renfrey Clarke argues that migrants are, unfortunately, the easy-to-blame scapegoats for a system that has lacked the vision and ability to provide affordable housing.
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Jim McIlroy reviews Damage, written and directed by Australian filmmaker Madeleine Blackwell, which is a moving allegory about the destruction caused by war and the increasing alienation suffered by an elderly woman in a capitalist society abandoning those in need.
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The appearance of a few asylum seekers on some of the most remote shorelines in Western Australia prompted the customary hysteria from predictable quarters. But, Binoy Kampmark reports, the major parties agree on offshore processing.
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Refugee rights group said 40 people who recently sought asylum in Western Australia should be brought back from offshore detention. Pip Hinman reports.
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Darren Saffin reviews Ken Loach's film The Old Oak, which is set in a dying northern English village following the arrival of Syrian refugee families.
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The Refugee Action Collective organised a vigil to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the murder of Iranian Kurdish refugee Reza Barati by guards at the Australian-run detention centre on Manus Island, writes Chris Slee.
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鶹ý’s Federico Fuentes interviewed Viktoriia Pihul, a council member of Ukrainian democratic socialist organisation Social Movement, regarding the situation in Ukraine two years after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
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Bob Marley was adored by millions, especially the youth of poor countries such as Morocco. His son should be protested at WOMADelaide for supporting Israel's genocide of Palestinians, writes Sue Bull.