Australia’s  neighbours are struggling with serious COVID-19 outbreaks. Australia needs to take seriously its obligations as a good neighbour in helping to secure COVID-19 vaccines for the region.

The news that Facebook would launch a corporate human rights policy and fund human rights defenders facing online threat is welcome. While it is a march in the right direction, the context of the decision should be examined.

Deportation policy is a regional dilemma that won’t be solved by Australia and New Zealand trading diplomatic insults. Both nations must recognise their complicity in a system of regional dislocation and their joint responsibility to address it.

What is unfolding in Xinjiang is the largest detention of an ethnic group since the Holocaust. Australia has […]

Since tightening Section 501 of the Migration Act in 2014, Australia has cancelled the visas of over 2000 Australian-resident New Zealanders. Doing so […]

Deportation policy is a regional dilemma that won’t be solved by Australia and New Zealand trading diplomatic insults. Both nations must recognise their complicity in a system of regional dislocation and their joint responsibility to address it.

What is unfolding in Xinjiang is the largest detention of an ethnic group since the Holocaust. Australia has a responsibility to increase pressure on Beijing to cease its large-scale human rights abuses of the Uyghur minority.

Since tightening Section 501 of the Migration Act in 2014, Australia has cancelled the visas of  over 2000 Australian-resident New Zealanders. Doing so mandates their deportation, but many such deportees have little connection to the country that issued their passport.

With the relationship between Australia and China now in a stalemate and the possibility it could get worse, […]

Watching the progress of the COVID-19 pandemic in Papua New Guinea has been like watching a train crash in slow motion. In the […]

The Gender Action Plan agreement at the 25th United Nations Climate Change Conference should have sent the message that the time for gender-responsive climate action is now. That […]