Cait Kelly

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Cait Kelly

A two-bedroom apartment in Bondi Junction that is part of an “affordable” housing scheme run by the NSW government has been listed at $1,100 a week to rent, prompting advocates to warn that programs designed to help low-income earners are increasingly out of reach. Across the country, affordable housing programs are meant to offer rent below market rate for low-to-moderate income households that make too much for social housing but not enough for the private market.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Cait Kelly

Kelly was sitting up in her hospital bed. Through the haze of heavy medication, she was trying to tell the woman at the end of the phone line – an officer at Centrelink – what had happened. On 26 March, the 43-year-old had started experiencing psychosis and two weeks later, on 8 April, she was admitted to Macquarie hospital in NSW. “I was completely out of my mind,” Kelly says. “When I had the psychosis, I thought I was being poisoned and people were watching me. “I couldn’t even tell you my name.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Cait Kelly

When Sam Matti came to Australia, he had a bachelor degree in automation engineering and five years of experience working as an engineer at an electric power plant in Baghdad. After fleeing religious persecution in Iraq, where Islamic State was targeting minority Christians, Matti arrived in Australia in 2015. Here, Matti, who speaks five languages, applied for every suitable engineering job – but couldn’t even land a callback.

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Cait Kelly

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3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Cait Kelly

“That is a crotch shot!” says Cheng Lei, laughing at my phone’s screensaver. I tell her it’s a picture of my legs but she’s sceptical and laughs even more. You could be forgiven for expecting Cheng, 49, to be serious and sombre: the journalist spent two years and three months in prison in China for an absurd crime. Detained as a spy and kept in isolation for months, she was constantly watched by guards, and did not hear the voices of her two children for years.