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12/12/2025

New on our website, “waste colonisation” in Fiji

Shayal Devi reports for Right Now, The Citizen and Crikey.

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10/12/2025

“Our children will be the ones who pay”

New from Amy Rust on Right Now: The Victorian Government delivered a historic apology to First Peoples this week, while at the same time introducing new youth justice laws that will allow children to be sentenced as adults.
This is part of a larger pattern: symbolic gestures in public, structural harm behind the scenes.

Yoorrook has made it clear that colonisation never ended. It continues through the systems that hyperincarcerate First Peoples today. The Government has chosen political convenience instead of protecting First Nations children.

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A special kind of betrayal occurs when a government apologises for historic injustice while engineering new injustice.

11/11/2025

A beautiful new poem on the website, Oyster Talk by 🦪

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https://rightnow.org.au/creative-works/oyster-talk/

11/11/2025

A beautiful new poem on the website, ‘Oyster Talk’ by 🦪

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17/10/2025

New on Right Now: Professor Azadeh Dastyari and Cassandra Le Good on why Australia remains the only democracy without a legislated National Human Rights Act, and why the time for one is now.

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Australia is the only democracy without an enshrined Human Rights Act.

21/09/2025

New interview on the website

Dr Catherine Ordway tells the dramatic story of helping the Afghan women’s cricket team escape from Taliban rule

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24/08/2025

Same Boat, Different Fate. New opinion piece by Rathy Barthlote and Thanu Mylvaganam on the website. Read more at rightnow.org.au.

01/08/2025

A recent Federal Court ruling found that the Australian Government does not owe a duty of care to protect Torres Strait Islanders from climate change and denied compensation for the loss of cultural heritage.
This case exposes a painful contradiction: Indigenous cultures are required to prove their value in court, only to be denied protection.

Read the full article on Right Now by Sherine Al Shallah and Lucas Lixinski.

The Federal Court's judgment in the case brought by Torres Strait Islanders over the impact of climate change found there ought to be no compensation for cultural loss. This is a betrayal of Indigenous communities.

23/07/2025

We need a right to a healthy environment, time for our government to act

New opinion piece on the website, by Kerry Weste & Amy Maguire

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https://rightnow.org.au/opinion/right-to-a-healthy-environment

20/07/2025

New on Right Now in collaboration with About Time .

Kelly-Marie Margreot Roma Flanagan “AKA” ArtworkByAalayah shares her raw, powerful journey from darkness to self-discovery through art. A story of a blank canvas filling an unknown world.

This is not the journey I planned. I didn’t wake up one day and say, ‘I want to go to prison and become an artist.'