Shakira Hussein
Crikey.com.au
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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Roasted: Cory Bernardi, Sam Kekovich the lambasssador and white fragility
White fragility in Australia is looking particularly fragile at the moment on the back of a joke war between Meat and Livestock Australi. → Read More
Stephen Hawking wasn't bound to his wheelchair, he was empowered by it
Eulogies of Stephen Hawking miss the mark in understanding the pop icon and scientist's wheelchair. Shakira Hussein explains some of the frustrations coming forth in the wake of his death. → Read More
The death of legendary Pakistani lawyer Asma Jahangir is a blow to human rights everywhere
The death of legendary Pakistani lawyer Asma Jahangir is a blow to human rights everywhere The death of Jahangir, who was a champion of women and human rights, drew calls to continue her work from across Pakistani's ideological spectrum. → Read More
The death of legendary Pakistani lawyer Asma Jahangir is a blow to human rights everywhere
The death of legendary Pakistani lawyer Asma Jahangir is a blow to human rights everywhere The death of Jahangir, who was a champion of women and human rights, drew calls to continue her work from across Pakistani's ideological spectrum. → Read More
How an Islamic fashion exhibition exposed the true Aussie spirit
Hijabi fashion is here to stay, but The Australian didn't get the memo writes Shakira Hussein. → Read More
Why I'm done fact-checking Islamophobes, racists and trolls
It's hard to come up with the perfect come-back when you're accosted by racists like Sam Dastyari was. But it's what happens next that is more important. → Read More
Lindt cafe siege inquest: domestic violence is terrorism
Some murders are not just an act of private anger, but are intended to send an explicit message to a far broader audience. We call those murders terrorism, except when the victims are women and children. → Read More
ISIS destruction of Palmyra, Syria, a crime against history
Islamic State's destruction of the ancient city of Palmyra is heartbreaking. But its history and artifacts do not belong to the world; they belong to Syria alone. → Read More
Is this the real world? Bin Laden conspiracy theory makes plenty of sense
The US government loves to create its own reality, and the case of Osama bin Laden's assassination is no different. → Read More
Australia's national security budget won't stop terrorism
There is tonnes of money in the budget for "national security", i.e. the ongoing alienation of Muslims. → Read More
Geert Wilders' role in Texas Muhammed cartoon attack
We are quick to blame a tweet from a Muslim urging violence against those at a Texas cartoon exhibition. But what about the hate speech of Islamophobe Geert Wilders? → Read More
Stella Young was against euthanasia, the Greens' bill against her wishes
* A good article, with valuable perspectives. To me it illustrates that we are all different and all approach our own inevitable mortality and the risks and burdens of illness and disability very differently. It is also probably worth noting that doctors have ben shown to give a very negative rating to the future quality of life of people with a disability, far lower than the scoring assigned by… → Read More
Rabble with a cause: the importance of civil disobedience and ‘selfishness’
Those who dismissed last Friday's protest against the closure of remote Aboriginal communities as selfish completely miss the point. → Read More
Shut down the camps
Are Sydney house prices really to blame? Mayne: Nineâs extraordinary attack on Murdoch. Subeditors thin on the ground at the <em>Oz</em>? Rundle: how Greens Derangement Syndrome went viral. Pyne's expensive children. Stilgherrian on the <em>Dallas Buyers Club</em> verdict. Energy white paper winners. And Unimelb tells students: complain to ISIS, not us. → Read More
The Australian lacks subeditors, Christopher Pyne talks On Dit
Subs dropping at The Oz ... pay to listen to your boss ... Pyne a man of letters ... → Read More
Luxury car sales up for Ferrari, Audi, Mercedes in Australia for March 2015
Luxury cars hot property. And other business tidbits of the day. → Read More
Reclaim (indigenous) Australia: both sides scream tolerance at Melbourne rally
Both Reclaim Australia and the Rally Against Racism seem to think they had the moral high ground, and everyone wanted to claim both feminism and Aboriginal heritage. It was a very weird day. → Read More
Islamophobic housewives say Australia is going to halal in a grocery basket –
There is a growing trend of anti-Islamic women appointing themselves guardians of the Christian domestic realm, by "battling" halal certification on the home front. → Read More
The death penalty continues because we want it to –
The problem for anti-death penalty campaigners is that capital punishment is in fact very popular. → Read More
Why do we still think cripface is OK? –
Disability academic Beth Haller talks about new ways of giving people with disabilities control over their own narratives. And she says help could be coming from quite an unlikely quarter. → Read More