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The bizarre prison island travelogue of Roman Quaedvlieg

The bizarre prison island travelogue of Roman Quaedvlieg

The former Commissioner of Australian Border Force, Roman Quaedvlieg, took time out of pouring petrol on the au pair scandal last week to pen his reflections on a far bigger scandal that is somehow not really a scandal at all. Initially self-published, then re-posted...
Australia’s Torture Camps

Australia’s Torture Camps

I faced worse mental torture compared to the intelligence prisons in Iran. We have been under severe mental torture for three years. We see it clearly and exactly: there is no way behind—to return is a torture—and there is nothing in front of us but hell. There is no...
If only gender-based violence really was unAustralian

If only gender-based violence really was unAustralian

At the first major policy announcement of his tenure, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s rhetoric echoed that of John Howard: violence against women, he said, needs to be seen as ‘unAustralian’. But Australianess is a fluid concept that means...
Why we aren’t more shocked by Nauru revelations

Why we aren’t more shocked by Nauru revelations

In his revolutionary pamphlet, ‘Rights of Man’, Thomas Paine responded to Edmund Burke’s criticism of the Parisian masses. They had razed the Bastille, killed a number of men they suspected of betraying them, put their heads on spikes and paraded...