Iraq and Our Democracy by Alison Caddick
If the non-response to the marches against the Iraq war in 2003 confirmed a disabling political cynicism in many people, today we witness the political fruits of two decades of aggression in the Middle...
View ArticleMalice in Wonderland, by Desmond Manderson
The Abbott government and the erosion of the rule of law
View ArticleGarage Lecture #1: Transit and Establishment
Garage Lectures presents the first lecture in a series of six for 2016 on forced migration, with critical focus on refugees and asylum seekers. Soups, drinks and all round discussion await you.
View ArticleAi Weiwei and the Superficial Politics of Victimhood
The image of Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei lying prostrate on a stony beach in Greece, recreating the now iconic photo of drowned Syrian infant Alan Kurdi, has predictably gone viral and generated fierce...
View ArticleThe National Cruelty, by Russell Marks
How to understand our attitude to refugees and detention regimes
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Incarceration, Autonomy and Resistance on Manus Island, by Behrouz Boochani
If autonomy is the freedom to act without external control, then our 23-day resistance on Manus Island was an exercise in an autonomy temporarily wrought back from an institutionalised and otherwise...
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