Australia’s Islamophobia Problem
It’s a scary time to be Muslim in Australia. On 18 September, anti-terrorism raids in connection with IS were conducted in Sydney and Brisbane. Australia’s terror alert has also been raised from...
Author: Chally Kacelnik
Housing Children With Adults: Ireland’s Mental Health Shame
The child rights spotlight is firmly on Ireland at the moment. The latest harrowing news is that, in 2013, eighty-three children were placed in adult psychiatric units. The Code of Practice Relating...
New South Wales Decimates Women’s Shelters
In Sydney, women’s shelters are days away from being decimated. 15.39 million dollars has been allocated to homelessness services, with only 1.1 million of that going to women’s services. And no,...
Australia’s Budget Attack on Its Poor, Young and Vulnerable
Australians woke up this morning in bewilderment, anger, and, for many, without the secure future they’d been promised in the supposed Lucky Country. Federal Liberal Party Treasurer Joe Hockey...
Eurovision: A Referendum on Putin’s Russia
The Eurovision Song Contest, that glorious, glittery spectacle that isn’t just out of left field, but comprises the field, had quite the 2014 edition. A televised competition featuring entrants...
Where Media Speculation Goes Too Far: Peaches Geldof, Celebrity and Tragedy
A couple of days ago, English writer, television presenter, and model Peaches Geldof was found dead in her home at the age of twenty-five. The cause of death is as yet unknown, but that hasn’t...
Australia’s Manus Island Shame: Where’s the Inquiry?
This week has brought a halt to a human rights inquiry concerning the detention centre on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island, one of the off-shore facilities in which asylum seekers to Australia are...
The Australian Aboriginal People With Disabilities Being Held In Prison Without Trial
Last week, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation highlighted the circumstances of Western Australia resident Rosie Anne Fulton, who has been incarcerated without being convicted of a crime or...
The Woman Being Removed For Being Too Good at Her Job: Guatemala’s Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz
Claudia Paz y Paz is Guatemala’s first female Attorney General - although she will not be holding the position for much longer. She is not being made to leave her position for reasons of...
Too Costly: The Right-wing Attack on Australia’s ABC
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), the country’s major public broadcaster, was on Wednesday accused by Prime Minister Tony Abbott of taking ‘everyone’s side but Australia’s’ due...