Tracey Shelton

Former detective senior sergeant Chris O'Connor joined the police force because he "didn't like bullies, particularly sexual bullies". For 36 years — fuelled by the love and protectiveness he felt for his own kids — he dedicated his career to…

Sydney, Australia - Vickii Lett has been a volunteer wildlife carer in New South Wales (NSW) for 32 years. While she says her work can sometimes be heartbreaking, this year she has witnessed Australia's wildlife being wiped out on an unprecedented…

The plight of 32 detainees at Melbourne's infamous Park Hotel has been overshadowed this week by the detention of Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic. The group of refugees and asylum seekers — many feeling forgotten and abandoned after up to nine…

Nima Moradi says he is "lucky and thankful" to be raising his two children in Australia. Growing up in Iran as a child of the Baha'i faith, Mr Moradi was often beaten at school. He was one of five Baha'i children who would cower each morning as they…

Budj Bim, Australia - When Denis Rose was a "young fella" he would often go fishing with his family in the area that now makes up the Budj Bim National Park in southeastern Australia. "I can remember my father and my uncle using the fish traps," he…

Sydney, Australia - Australia's government is resisting growing calls for a more ambitous response to climate change, even as the country battles devastating bushfires triggered by record temperatures that have sent air pollution to critical…

When Saudi IT consultant Fatimah Almathami arrived to study in Brisbane, people often asked her if Saudi Arabia was safe for women. Ironically, what Ms Almathami missed the most about her home country was how safe she felt going out late at night for…

Few people have a CV as impressive as Amin Niazai. Key points: New census data reveals that migrants have an average higher level of education than people born in Australia The 35-year-old Afghan-born Melburnian is a forest ecology and climate change…

Hundreds of Melburnians have gathered in solidarity with protesters in Iran, who have taken to the streets across the country, furious over the death of a woman while she was in the custody of Iran's morality police. Mahsa Amini, 22, was arrested in…

A new report assessing human rights concerns across the globe has listed Australia's response to the COVID-19 pandemic along with its treatment of asylum seekers and Indigenous rights as the country's most serious issues. The Human Rights Watch (HRW)…

Ms Rajabi* was a trainee fighter pilot when the Taliban took Kabul. The 23-year-old described how she tried to grab her documents and belongings as the militants neared the air force academy base, but she was told by a soldier: "Just leave if you…

Reporter Tracey Shelton spent years as a correspondent giving a voice to people in war zones who'd experienced trauma. When she returned to Australia, she was surprised to find people here suffering similar symptoms, so she set out to investigate the…

When Seng Malai's second son began showing symptoms of a hereditary disorder, she thought she was cursed. Haemophilia had already claimed the lives of her first son at just 3 months old and her younger brother at 12. Sokmao's joints would swell to…

Iran's morality police and Russians involved in the attempted assassination of former opposition leader Alexei Navalny are among those facing new sanctions imposed by the Australian government. The sanctions list includes a number of Russian…

Australia's global strategic partnerships have been the focus of a speech by Prime Minister Scott Morrison on the fourth day of the United Nations General Assembly. In a pre-taped video statement, Mr Morrison touted Australia's $100 million…

Nora Amath has two degrees and a PhD and has lived in Australia for 23 years. But sometimes people speak to her in broken English or assume she's uneducated, she can't work or she's "under her husband's thumb". Australian Muslims come from all around…

Every day for the past five months, Jameela Haidari has been coming to this park at Melbourne's Lincoln Square. She loves to join her daughter and the other women from their close-knit Afghan refugee community and watch the children play. But some…

Kerry Hamill was a great letter-writer, so his family knew something was wrong when his carefully penned correspondence stopped in 1978. The young New Zealander accidentally sailed into Cambodian waters and was then captured, tortured and killed by…

As foreign forces scale down their presence in Afghanistan, Taliban insurgents have been gaining ground in a string of military advances across the country. Afghanistan has been a patchwork of various control centres since US-led forces ousted the…

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.WatchDuration: 1 minute 10 seconds1m 10s Australian and New Zealand farmers have launched a campaign in support of Baha'i families in northern Iran after…