Social Justice

Welfare groups are fighting for increases to both pensions and unemployment benefits in this months Budget. Pensioners have been pushing...

New Research from the University of New South Wales suggests that an adult who had a happy childhood is still...

American soldiers in Afghanistan have been accused of trying to convert the local population to Christianity. A former documentary maker-...

Getting old is hard enough without having to deal with cultural and language barriers, but that’s what many migrants face...

It’s been one year since Cyclone Nargis hit the southern coast of Burma, leaving 140,000 people dead and displacing a...

Australia needs a national human rights act that includes specific protection of Indigenous rights. That’s according to Tom Calma, Aboriginal...

This week the Pope and the Canadian Prime Minister have followed in Kevin Rudd’s footsteps by offering sympathies to Indigenous...

The annual Fair Trade Fortnight starts tomorrow and there’s a series of events happening around the country as part of...

Pakistan is descending towards what some are warning could be civil war with fighting intensifying between the Taliban and government...

This week unions and women’s groups have been stepping up pressure on the federal government to deliver on their promises...