Oceania

Podcast

27 November 2020 by Asymmetrical Haircuts

Australia’s wake-up call on war crimes Execution of prisoners, a “blooding” practice where subordinates are ordered to kill out-of-action enemy combatants, a system of covering up war crimes, and “collective blindness” of the army hierarchy: the Brereton inquiry into a [...]

Opinion

30 July 2020 by Caitlin Reiger

Australia’s first truth commission: transitional justice to face colonial legacies In Australia, calls for treaty, truth-telling and historical justice have a long and chequered history. And when Black Lives Matter protests spilled onto the streets of Australian cities, and numbers of non-Aboriginal Australians [...]

Opinion

29 June 2020 by Katie Pickles

Removing monuments is not the same for former colonies as it is for former empires The global furore about the meaning and relevance of statues, memorials and place names from a racist, imperial past presents a special challenge to Aotearoa-New Zealand. Are we ready to craft our own decolonial exit strategy? Or [...]

AFP

19 July 2018 by AFP

Turnbull calls on Pope to sack archbishop for concealing child abuse Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Thursday called on Pope Francis to sack disgraced archbishop Philip Wilson after he was convicted of covering up child sex abuse but remains employed by the church. One of the highest- [...]

AFP

26 July 2017 by AFP

Cardinal Pell denies abuse charges in Australian court Vatican finance chief Cardinal George Pell, a top advisor to Pope Francis, denied all charges of historical sexual abuse Wednesday at his first appearance in an Australian court over the allegations. The 76-year-old, the number-th [...]

AFP

26 July 2017 by AFP

Cardinal Pell arrives for Australian sex abuse court hearing Vatican finance chief Cardinal George Pell arrived for his first appearance in an Australian court on historical sex abuse charges Wednesday, facing a huge media scrum ahead of the largely administrative hearing. The 76-year-old, [...]