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Lessons in Ignorance from an Aid Worker in Iraq

Lessons in Ignorance from an Aid Worker in Iraq

August 19, 2020
by Lee McDermid
Yarns

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…

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Greece: A Reluctant Journal of a Forgotten Humanitarian Emergency

Greece: A Reluctant Journal of a Forgotten Humanitarian Emergency

March 22, 2019
by Oliver O'Neill
Current Affairs, Features, Yarns

“They are here because you were there. There is an umbilical connection.” – Stuart Hall, Black Chronicles. The following is a reluctant journal of my…

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To Those Who Say, "They Should Just Come Here Legally"

To Those Who Say, “They Should Just Come Here Legally”

June 22, 2018
by Ashley Ogasawara
Current Affairs

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…

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When Saving a Life Makes You a Criminal

When Saving a Life Makes You a Criminal

August 8, 2017
by Caroline Hajny
Features

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…

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"We Could Make a Fkn Glass Crater Out of the Middle East for All I Care"

“We Could Make a Fkn Glass Crater Out of the Middle East for All I Care”

March 22, 2017
by Maya Skidmore
Current Affairs

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…

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What We Can Learn from the Refugee Olympic Team

What We Can Learn from the Refugee Olympic Team

August 22, 2016
by Ezekiel MacNevin
Current Affairs, Features

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…

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Shame On Us

Shame On Us

May 18, 2016
by Michael Evers
Current Affairs

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…

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“Discovered” or “Invaded” – The Power of Words

“Discovered” or “Invaded” – The Power of Words

March 31, 2016
by Nat Kassel
Current Affairs

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…

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Exiled, Refugees and Me: Not our Department?

Exiled, Refugees and Me: Not our Department?

January 31, 2016
by Ruby Wu
Current Affairs, Features

“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…

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It's Time to Change the Conversation

It’s Time to Change the Conversation

August 28, 2015
by Gemma Clarke
Current Affairs, Features

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,…

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The Privilege of Travelling for Pleasure

The Privilege of Travelling for Pleasure

June 3, 2015
by Rowan Montgomery
Current Affairs

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…

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