Australia Bans Entry to Iranian Visa Holders Who Are Fleeing the Illegal War
The US and Israel began their war of aggression on Iran on 28 February 2026, based on the pretext of saving the Iranian people from the tyranny of their government. Australia was the first nation to extol the virtues of...
Constitutional Rights in Australia Versus the United States
Despite the efforts of the current president of the United States to enhance state control through executive orders at the expense of fundamental civil liberties, the nation’s constitution explicitly guarantees wide range of individual rights in relation to the government....
Exposing Crime and Corruption in Government is a Criminal Offence in Australia
This week has been quite a week in terms of the seven-year-old saga involving the prosecution of the 2018/19 launched public service whistleblower hitlist, as two of the three public service disclosers on it, former ATO officer Richard Boyle and...
Will Australia’s Chief Lawmaker Finally Introduce Effective Whistleblower Protections?
Commonwealth attorney general Mark Dreyfus traipsed back into office at the 2025 federal election, as he took two-thirds of the vote in the seat of Issacs, which is the electorate that he’s held since 2007. The big question many are...
Attorney General Waxes Lyrical About His Whistleblower Protections that Fail All
“Improved whistleblower protection has long been an interest of mine,” federal attorney general Mark Dreyfus told The Sydney Institute, during a 5 September speech he gave to the privately-funded policy forum, which was titled, Transparency and Accountability in Politics and...
Australian Government Talks Big About Protecting Whistleblowers, While Criminally Prosecuting Them
The South Australian District Court last year found that Richard Boyle was correct in blowing the whistle on the Australian Taxation Office over its breaching of a garnishee policy to dip into small business accounts to extract debts with the...
Christian Extremists Continue Attempts to Infiltrate Australian Politics
When Senator Fatima Payman quit Labor on 4 July, as it refused to condemn the Israeli perpetrated genocide in Gaza and also sanctioned her for speaking out against it, the old school white political establishment and media automatically went in...
Australian Government Should Be Ashamed of Imprisoning McBride
Picture troops stranded in a foreign land, beyond watch or care of government back home, which is only concerned in looking effective. Consider these soldiers don’t know their aim in a foreign conflict, as neither do their leaders. And think...
“Don’t Blow the Whistle”, Australia Warns, as It Imprisons Lawyer for Exposing War Crimes
Australians are raised on ideas of freedom, justice and equality: principles that the nation is said to embody, and its defence forces uphold. And it’s implicitly understood that serving military officers take no pleasure in committing acts that are usually...
The Right To Silence Across Australian Jurisdictions
The right to silence is not protected by the Australian Constitution, unlike in the United States where is is guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to that nation’s constitution and reflected in what are commonly known as ‘Miranda rights’, also known...
