They are calling for my flight to begin boarding. The little screen spells out Erbil, Iraq, in all capitals. I no longer get nervous before…
“They are here because you were there. There is an umbilical connection.” – Stuart Hall, Black Chronicles. The following is a reluctant journal of my…
With the situation that has been underway in America until today’s executive order – children being taken from their parents at the border as part…
It’s Ramadan in Lesvos. Thousands of Muslims, who have unwillingly become inhabitants of the little island, are fasting during their holy month. Some have been…
The charming sentence that titles this piece first came to my attention in the sunny year of ’06, when The Chaser took to the streets…
In 2015, Yusra Mardini crammed into a decaying boat that sailed thousands of miles across the Aegean Sea to seek refuge on the Greek island of…
This year, I was lucky enough to witness the huge marches that are part of the Día de la Memoria por la Verdad y la…
Colonisation was a brutal undertaking, not least in Australia. It’s horrifying and embarrassing to think that indigenous people were systematically oppressed, raped and killed by…
“I feel safer here as a foreigner than as a citizen in my own country.” To refugees fleeing war and persecution at home, this expression…
In their second year, journalism students in Australia are taught that using irrelevant or disparaging qualifiers in writing is sensationalist and therefore unethical. It seems,…
An article was recently published in the journalistic dumping ground that is The Daily Mail, lamenting the fact that migrants were destroying the picturesque island…
