As Street Dog Care in Kathmandu Grows, Community Attitude to Strays Is Shifting
If you ever find yourself in the forecourt of the Boudhanath Stupa, a revered Buddhist monument located on the northeastern outskirts of Kathmandu city at about noon on a Saturday, you’re likely to come across a rainbow-coloured beach umbrella, with...
Labor Says “F#*K Off We’re Full” to Medevac Refugees, After a Decade of Torture
The Liberal Nationals government tortured and imprisoned thousands of the planet’s most desperate people in facilities built on the soil of poorer nations for years because they arrived in Australian waters by boat seeking asylum, which is completely legal under...
Privacy Watchdog and Media Regulator Launch Investigations into Optus
Many Australians feel that large corporations and their executives have gotten away with flouting the law without sufficient consequences for far too long. And the recent Optus data breach has certainly added to that sentiment - with 10 million current...
Beyond the Material: Capturing Thai Spirituality in Photos
Thailand is renowned for its Buddhism. With around 95 percent of the population adherents, temples, or wats, pepper the landscape, and bright, orange-robed monks stroll the streets. There are two strains of Buddhism: Theravada and Mahayana. In Thailand, the former is practiced....
Diplomacy is Needed to Prevent the Possibility of World War III
Joe Biden warned last week that the world is the closest it’s been to nuclear war in the last 60 years. The US president made these remarks in relation to Russian head of state Vladimir Putin having repeatedly made threats to...
Thailand Uses Efficient Transport Options, While Control and Revenue-Raising Prevail in Australia
The traffic in the Thai capital of Bangkok is notorious for its congestion, especially at peak periods. During morning or evening “rush” hours, a forty-five-minute crosstown journey can take double that or even crack the two-hour mark. And we all...
At Kathmandu’s Hindu Burning Grounds, Death Is a Regular Public Matter
Standing amongst the burning funeral pyres at Pashupatinath on the eastern side of the city of Kathmandu, a person from Australia may be struck by the completely different approach to death Hindu people, who cremate their dead there, have. In...
UN Rules Australian Climate Inaction Is Violating Torres Strait Islander Rights
The UN Human Rights Commission found on 22 September, that the Australian government is indeed failing the peoples of the low-lying Torres Strait Islands, due to its refusal to take adequate action on the climate crisis, which in turn, is adversely impacting...
Hands Off Assange! US and UK Citizens Stand in Solidarity with Truth-Teller
Many had high hopes that current Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, would make good on his pre-election rhetoric calling for an end to the persecution of award-winning Australian journalist Julian Assange, by pressuring the United Kingdom to allow him to...
Karen Refugees from Myanmar Spend Decades in UN-Run Thai Camps, as Recent Arrivals Are Returned
Along the Trak province Thai border region with Myanmar, there are a series of three refugee camps, with over 54,000 displaced persons living within them. The overwhelming majority residing in the camps are Karen people, some of whom have been living...
