Disruptive Protest Is Necessary, Says Extinction Rebellion, as SA Antiprotest Regime Likely to Pass
Amnesty International organised a 500 hundred strong protest in the Adelaide CBD last Friday evening, as civil society groups, unions and climate defenders marched united in their demand that the Malinauskas government’s proposed extreme antiprotest regime is not enacted into law....
Neo-Nazis Openly Demonstrating on the Australian Streets Is a Dire Concern
Nazis have existed in Australian suburbia going back at least as far as the 1980s. The early 90s movie Romper Stomper is testament to that. But these groups were fractured and unorganised. And whilst committing the odd act of vandalism or...
Thorpe Warns of Rising Custody Deaths, as Underfunded Aboriginal Legal Services Shut
The Aboriginal Legal Service shut down operations in thirteen regional areas of NSW on 15 May of this year, not due to there being any lack of demand for its services, but due to the fact that federal funding has not...
Fatally Tasering Great-Grandmothers Is Par for the Course for the NSW Police Force
“The role of a police officer seems to be growing wider and wider and we are expected to know everything about everything,” NSW police commissioner Karen Webb told Sunrise on Tuesday morning. And she added that state law enforcement officers “are...
SA Major Parties Attempt to Extinguish Climate Protest With Draconian Penalties
As the South Australian Labor and Liberal parties worked in tandem last week to rush through harsh laws to stamp out climate protests, it was as if the Malinauskas government had simply ripped a page out of the NSW playbook...
Albanese Condemns Australia to Decades of Austerity, as Bipartisan Militarisation Continues
US president Joe Biden cancelled next week’s Sydney Quad Leaders’ Summit on Wednesday. But not to worry, as China-focused security meetings are now coming so thick and fast that the next one will be around soon enough, especially with the growing...
McBride Continues to Be Prosecuted, Despite War Crime Coverups Long Exposed
The AFP arrested former SAS officer Oliver Shultz on 20 March, following a joint investigation with the Office of the Special Investigator. The 41-year-old was charged with the war crime of murder, making him the first serving or ex ADF member to...
Sisters Inside Condemns Palaszczuk’s Youth Crime Crackdown, as Viable Alternatives Exist
The Palaszczuk government announced last week that it plans to build another children’s gaol in Woodford, right next door to the adult maximum-security facility in the local corrections precinct, which comes on the back of its decision last October to build another...
AUKUS Powers Are Militarising Papua New Guinea in Preparation for War with China
Journalist John Pilger’s 2017 documentary The Coming War With China warned that the US had established a “perfect noose” of 400-odd military bases surrounding China, while former Australian PM Paul Keating recently asserted that the AUKUS deal makes us part of this “containment policy”....
Minns, Time to De-Christianise Parliament in Multifaith/Nonreligous NSW, Say Rationalists and Greens
The March state election saw Catholic premier Dominic Perrottet hand over the reins of NSW top minister to current Catholic premier Chris Minns, who is now set to establish a multifaith religious advisory group to parliament with a direct line to...
