Before the establishment of the modern state, characterised by its clear delineation of territorial boundaries, Immanuel Kant penned his essay  Perpetual Peace . Among his conditio...

‘Look’ is based on a media image of a young boy displaced by conflict. It uses the gaze of the subject and the audience to address the power of witnessing....

–  Matthew Zagor  interviewed by  Odette Shenfield Matthew Zagor is an Associate Professor in Law and a specialist in refugee law. Last semester, I was privileged to study his cour...

Then came the Wide Game. It seemed a strange name to the uninitiated like Bronte, but meant only, it seemed, that they weren’t confined to their Scout Halls around the region and c...

In 1990, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that the impacts of climate change would lead to the relocation of millions of people around the world. [1]  Mo...

Australian incarceration rates are at an all-time high, prisons are overcrowded, and the majority of people who spend time in prison re-offend; it is time that prison reform was on...

Of and For Our Bodies – Zoya Godoroja-Prieckaerts In April this year, Zoya Godoroja-Prieckaerts worked together with Cla...

Humans tend to throw up walls upon encountering ideas we don’t understand. Spectrums of experience are broken down into boxes; identities have their variations chiseled away until ...

The concept of cultural mixing is strongly felt in today’s world where the boundaries between nation states, people and communities are more porous than ever before. On the border ...

I created this body of work because I was fascinated by the way that identity is shaped through the relat...

A lot of the misconceptions directed at Muslim women pertain to false ideas about how Islam treats women...

‘ The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts ’ C.S. Lewis, 1943 [1] ‘ Through the My School website we have for the first time developed a ...

The darkness in the room is ripe and heavy, giving off the heady scent of bodies, breathing. In another language only breathing sounds the same. I shift an arm and she moves too, m...

–  Olivier Krischer  interviewed by  Annette Liu and Esther Carlin As you enter Wei Leng Tay’s exhibition ‘The Other Shore’, you are drawn in by the darkness. The space is containe...

‘It is the rule of the border in general that the refugee challenges … it is the justice of national sovereignty itself that the body of the asylum seeker refutes.’ [1] The poor of...

In my piece Home Sweet Home I wanted to look more deeply into what it means to be an American Muslim woman. I posted a message on the social media websites: Facebook, Tumblr and In...

The study of history is in many ways an attempt to learn from the past; in some cases, so we do not repeat its mistakes. Yet we forget all the time, due to neglect, and limited hum...

The first of these two letters was written by Rodney Kelly, a descendent of Cooman, the original owner of the Gweagle Shield. Rodney’s letter was sent to the British Museum, reques...

The rails shriek over here Pass silver-eyed birch bordering lush cornfields, defining amber wheat.   Hey Maria, in the northern forests, pines tall and trim, are well-kept lik...

[13/03/2016 10:56] Mum: “Tomorrow is  nonbu ” [10:59] Me: “ Nonbu  is  nombadai  right” Mum: “Yep” Me: “The one with the yellow string where we praise men to the stars” Mum: “We pr...

https://player.vimeo.com/video/169194953 Writer and performer: Gabriela Falzon Director and Cinematographer: Adam Thomas  

I am a privileged, white Australian on the precipice of a new career as a conservator. My training is in the classical western tradition of conservation, which favours the material...