United States Calls on Europe to Join in Return to Era of Western Expansionism
In addressing the Munich Security Conference on 14 February 2026, US secretary of state Marco Rubio told European leaders that the Trump administration is calling on EU nations to join America in reembarking upon the path of western expansion, which...
The Blanket Ban on Protests in NSW Has Been Lifted, But the Damage Has Been Done
The public assembly restriction declaration (PARD) or the blanket ban on authorised protest marches that’s covered parts of Greater Sydney since 24 December 2025 was lifted on Tuesday, 17 February 2026, after being in place for eight weeks, as the...
Right to Housing in Pending NSW Human Rights Bill Could End Unfair Tenant Evictions
The ACT Supreme Court has ruled in favour of three public housing tenants living on Ngunnawal land in Canberra, who claimed their rights were breached when a program seeking to redevelop and expand such housing, sought to evict and move...
The Offence of Impersonating a Police Officer in New South Wales
A 58-year-old woman was walking on Gadigal land down Arnold Lane, in the inner Sydney suburb of Surry Hills at around 11.45 am on 13 February 2026, when a man, whom she did not know, stopped her in the alleyway...
ALS Warns of Unprecedented Risk of First Nations Custody Deaths in NSW
The Aboriginal Legal Service NSW/ACT has warned that there’s unprecedented risk of First Nations deaths in custody in the New South Wales prison system at present, which is due to ongoing record-breaking numbers of First Peoples incarcerated in this state....
The State Set the Scene for Police Brutality: NSWCCL President Timothy Roberts on the Herzog Rally
The 9 February 2026 NSW police assault upon the 20,000 pro-Palestinian Sydneysiders gathered to peacefully protest the official visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog continues to leave much of the constituency stunned. The shock of witnessing NSW police liberally applying...
The Expediting Authoritarianism of Trump’s USA Has Taken Root in Australia
“Fascism and authoritarianism isn’t just in Trump’s USA,” insisted Greens Senator Dr Mehreen Faruqi in a social media post on Tuesday, the day after the New South Wales police attacked 20,000 pro-Palestinians demonstrators on Gadigal land at Sydney Town Hall....
Terrorism Prosecution of White Australian Over Perth Bomb Attack Sets Important Precedent
The 31-year-old white Australian man who tossed a homemade bomb that failed to go off into the crowd at the First Nations Invasion Day rally in Boorloo-Perth was charged with engaging in an act of terrorism on 5 February 2026....
Labor Is Legislating the Bedrock for a Future Authoritarian One Nation Government
Multiple polls in early 2026 have Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party coming in at second place behind the Labor government. Of course, unlike the Coalition opposition, One Nation only holds a few seats in parliament and has only ever run...
NSW Authorities Presaged and Later Affirmed the Police Brutalisation of Pro-Palestinians
Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinians gathered on Gadigal land at Sydney Town Hall on 9 February 2026, to rally against the visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog. But little did they understand that NSW ministers and senior police had predetermined...
