Cambodian Children’s Fund and Chab Dai: Helping Impoverished Kids
Cambodia is one of south-east Asia’s most impoverished countries. The nation still recovering from the effects of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, during which dictator Pol Pot ordered the deaths of hundreds of thousands of his own people. Despite their...
Australia Has Started Microchipping People
In 1946, a senior executive at film studio 20th Century Fox famously predicted that television wouldn’t take off. “People will soon get tired of staring into a plywood box every night,” he thought. Then in the late 1970s, as computers...
Casino Mike Cops a Social Media Battering
NSW premier Mike Baird is a “new breed of urban redneck,” according to one of over 4,500 Facebook users that have commented on a post published on his social media page on Sunday morning. The “obnoxious” post featured a photo...
Queensland Moves Towards a Bill of Rights
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced the state will be moving towards a human rights charter, with a view to creating a bill of rights. The Labor Party leader did not explain the finer points of the proposal, but said...
Mullet Man Sues for Defamation
A western Sydney teenager whose photo went viral is suing several media outlets for defamation. Ali Mosslmani, known as Ziggy, was photographed at a friend’s 18th birthday last year and was soon made into a meme reproduced by the Daily...
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Inmates with Mental Health Conditions
Recent decades have seen a growing recognition of the need to provide support services to those suffering from mental health conditions. Sadly, prison inmates are often left out of the discussion, despite rates of mental illness amongst those behind bars...
F*** Off, We’re Full: Lifetime Bans on Asylum Seekers Who Arrive by Boat
By Blake O’Connor and Ugur Nedim The federal government signalled its intention this week to well and truly close Australia’s doors, with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announcing that asylum seekers who arrive by boat will never be allowed to enter Australia....
Parents or Foster Care? What to do with at-risk children
By Blake O’Connor and Ugur Nedim A spate of recent cases suggest that children placed in foster care are being exposed to cruel treatment, illegal drugs and even sexual abuse. The foster care system is accused of failing to look...
“This Is Institutional Child Abuse”: Mistreatment of Child Detainees in NSW
A leaked document has revealed that senior members of Juvenile Justice approved young male detainees being locked up for 23 hours a day, handcuffed during their only hour of “recreation”, denied schooling and prohibited from mixing with other children. “This...
Beware: Oral Sex Can Give You Cancer
Rates of oral cancer amongst younger American men have skyrocketed over recent years. And this is being attributed to their rising eagerness to perform oral sex on their various female partners. On Tuesday, FAIR Health, an independent non-profit, published a...
