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The article discusses the issues ignored by the human rights movement including the ignorance of economic equality, military interventions, and anti-discrimination agendas, according to the left and right-wing leaders. Topics include the areas of focus for human rights advocates and NGOs including social rights, and economic rights, the role played by extreme inequality in the human rights movement, and the emphasis of human rights in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The article offers information on the emergence of human rights. It says that human rights has began to establish its dominance as a political language in 1977. It states that the turn of human rights language has coincide with neoliberal capitalism's victory as the sole horizon of possibilities for humanitarian and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). It adds that human rights movements in 1970S has led to human right militarization and political moralization.

The article offers the author's view on the proposal of the Australian Federal Budget in deregulating higher education which was discussed in the community forum in Penrith, New South Wales. She mentions a private college at the train station of Parramatta which claims to free enrollment and iPad computers which are oppositely noted on its web site. An overview of the perspective of Federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne on higher education in the U.S. is also presented.