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Asylum Seekers / Activists Want The UN To Look Into Inhumane Use Of Handcuffs On Asylum Seekers

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) is urging the United Nations torture watchdog to investigate Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers...

19 Sep 2022

Asylum Seekers / Being handcuffed for medical appointments left asylum seeker Yasir shaken. Why is it happening?

Asylum seekers are being given the choice of being handcuffed on their way to medical appointments or missing out on...

19 Sep 2022

Asylum Seekers / Call for UN torture watchdog to investigate Australia’s handcuffing of asylum seekers en route to medical care

The United Nations’ torture prevention watchdog has been urged to investigate Australia’s use of handcuffs on asylum seekers when seeking...

16 Sep 2022

Energy + Water / 2SER interview: energy reliability

According to recent media coverage, Australia is facing an escalating risk of power shortages. Some commentators are blaming the transition to...

9 Sep 2022

Homelessness / Homelessness, disability and institutional neglect

A severe shortage of social housing, combined with an increasingly unaffordable private rental market and inadequate social security payments, is...

6 Sep 2022

Energy + Water / 2SER interview: everyone deserves a healthy home

Living in a house that is difficult to warm or cool down isn’t just annoying and unhealthy. It can also...

24 Aug 2022

Policing and Detention / ‘No child belongs in prison’: 128,000 signatures to raise the age in NSW and Victoria

More than 128,000 community members, lawyers, and advocates from NSW and Victoria have called for the age of legal responsibility...

17 Aug 2022

Policing and Detention / ‘It broke my mind’: Former youth detainee sues after being held in solitary confinement

When Daniel* was taken into custody for the first time at the age of 17, he had never experienced any...

15 Aug 2022

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Justice / NSW petition to raise the age gets 63,000 signatures

Public Interest Advocacy Centre CEO Jonathon Hunyor said locking up children fails our community. “The verdict from medical, legal and...

11 Aug 2022

Discrimination / 2SER interview: e-scooters - safety issues and concerns

While e-scooters offer a convenient and sustainable mode of transport, there has been an increasing number of media reports about...

11 Aug 2022

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