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Human Rights

The Bali Nine and the future of the death penalty

Australian Exceptionalism

By Daniel Hoare
Since 1973, when the death penalty was abolished in Australia, the nation has taken a reasonably consistent international stance against capital punishment. In 1990 Australia signed a UN protocol that called upon all signatories to abolish the death penalty in their own countries and, according to some international lawyers, obliged them to advocate the worldwide abolition of the practice. Bu
Policing Australia’s northern waters

A Death in the Harbour

By Ruth Balint
Three days after its departure, in the early hours of 28 January 2003, the Yamdena was bailed up by the HMAS Fremantle, a Royal Australian Navy vessel on routine patrol. No doubt the fishing boat had already been spotted by one of the Coastwatch surveillance planes that regularly scan the Timor and Arafura seas, and its position relayed to the Fremantle. The Yamdena's crew watched as a boardi
Travels through a hibernating war

Winter in Afghanistan

By Debbie Whitmont
'Quadrant' at 50

The Usual Suspects

By Martin Krygier
Major Mori and American Military Justice

The Defence of David Hicks

By Alfred W McCoy
A century after the Dreyfus Affair, “anti-terror” legislation jeopardises Australians’ right to a fair trial

I Accuse

By Julian Burnside
The Making of 'Honour Bound'

Interrogation Dances

By Caroline Baum

The Myth of Ethical Investment

By James Kirby
Did you know that Woolworths now controls 14,000 poker machines? The supermarket company has followed the money down the street to the pub, where cash that some might say should be spent on groceries is instead being spent on the often fruitless activity of tr

Comment

By Don Watson
The Punishment of David Hicks

The Outcast of Camp Echo

By Alfred W McCoy
JUNE 2006 – On or about 11 January 2002, a small, slender 26-year-old Australian named David Hicks, recently captured fighting alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan, was one of the first detainees flown to Camp X-Ray at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. As a high-scho
A Commission’s Report Confirms Australian Duplicity & Cowardice

Truth, Death & Diplomacy in East Timor

By Mark Aarons
After years of struggle Vietnam’s economy is finally improving. But will the lights stay on?

Crouching Tiger

By John Button

2024

By Malcolm Knox
Often she cried. Sometimes she screamed. She begun at Baxter in what was called Blue Compound. She was quickly sent to Red One

The Unknown Story of Cornelia Rau

By Robert Manne
Cornelia was the younger daughter of Edgar and Veronika, a solid middle-class German couple from the Baltic city of Hamburg. Edgar Rau first brought his family to Sydney in 1967 to establish an Australian branch office of the pharmaceutical company for which he worked. In 1979 the family returned to Hamburg. After two years Edgar took his wife and Cornelia, by now in her mid-teens, on company busi
Kim Beazley has been charming mall-goers. And getting angry. And developing a knack for snappy one-liners. Is it too late?

Deserve's Got Nothing to Do With It

By John Birmingham