André Dao

André Dao
André Dao is the co-founder of Behind the Wire, an oral history organisation documenting people’s lived experience of human rights abuses.

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A minor language

Society

If Footscray Primary’s Vietnamese program ends, what else is lost?

Myopic compassion

Australian Politics

What makes people driven by compassion support harsh refugee policies?

‘How are you today’ at the Ian Potter Museum of Art

Culture

Audio messages from Manus Island reveal what it sounds like to live in limbo

A delicate balance

Islam

The Islamic Council of Victoria is optimistic

Hidden harms

Racism

How outrage at overt racism helps to hide the more pervasive kind

The meaning of freedom

Australian Politics

Asylum seekers and freedom of speech

Compassion fatigue

blog

The dilemma of human rights awareness

Nuclear waste at Muckaty

Environment

A trip to the site of a proposed nuclear waste dump on Aboriginal land in the Northern Territory

Censorship, sex and scandal in Singapore

Politics

For the city-state’s academics, freedom of speech is a sensitive subject