Rosie & Others to Get a Hearing – Northern Territory and Western Australia Chastised

The Australian Human Rights Commission this week called for an urgent audit of justice services to people with disability, as Rosie Anne Fulton, a woman detained in WA because she her disability meant she was deemed unfit to plead, became the latest person to highlight this type of human rights breach. The Disability Discrimination Commissioner Graeme Innes and Mick Gooda, the Aboriginal …

Four more artists withdraw from the 19th Biennale of Sydney

Originally posted on xBorder:
March 5th 2014 After much consideration we: Agnieszka Polska, Sara van der Heide, Nicoline van Harskamp and Nathan Gray, have decided to withdraw our works from the 19th Biennale of Sydney, because of its relation to Transfield, a company involved in the Australian government policy of mandatory detention. Our motivations reflect those…

An open letter to Prime Minister Tony Abbott

Originally posted on Castan Centre for Human Rights Law :
On 2 March, over 500 academics from more than 30 Australian universities (including Castan Centre Directors and Associates) signed a letter to the Prime Minister calling for the immediate closure of the detention centres on Manus Island and in Nauru. Academics can still add their names at this…