Features
What you need to know about the Burrup Hub
The scale of threat posed by the many interconnected fossil fuel projects in WA’s Pilbara region is staggering, and yet we’ve stopped talking about it as a whole: the Burrup Hub. Now, it’s time to zoom out again, look at the whole picture and do whatever we can to halt the massive destruction unfolding in the west.
People like us
Refugees are largely and eagerly characterised in this country as shady, illegitimate freeloaders to be kept out at all costs. As the Greens’ National Communications Officer and child of refugees Joana Partyka writes, there are many fine-tuned mechanisms in place to make sure it stays that way; to make sure we don’t regard refugees as people like us.
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Creating a nation we can all celebrate
The British Empire declared the first war on these shores – a war that continues today and targets First Nations children, women, men, land and water. Now, as Senator Lidia Thorpe asks with incredulity, the colonising force is asking First Nations people to kneel with their hands on their hearts over the death of the Empire’s figurehead?