Civil Rights

Politics & Society

Do we really need a tracking app and can we trust it?

Privacy and transparency should be central to the use of a COVID-19 tracking app, but there are other ways to track infections, and an app may not work anyway

Politics & Society

How Soviet tanks shook up the Australian Left

A new archive of personal papers provides a unique insight into the Soviet crack down on the ‘Prague Spring’ in 1968 created a dilemma for Australian communists just as wider protest movements were energising the left

Politics & Society

Religious freedom: One right among many

The tension between important and serious rights like religious freedom and equality reflects the need for an Australian bill of rights

Arts & Culture

Black Panther: How global civil rights found a home in a superhero movie

The latest Marvel movie adaption, Black Panther, arrives in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement with its own take on global Civil Rights - with a pan-African twist