Standing With Thorpe: An Uncompromising First Nations Voice in Parliament
Lidia Thorpe is not someone who made the decision to enter Australian parliament lightly, one would presume. She grew up amongst staunch First Nations rights activists, who vocally assert and continue to uphold their sovereignty over stolen lands. Australian parliament...
Land of the Gods: Nepalese Hindu Deities in Pictures
If ever a visitor in Nepal, one should be mindful that if you appear to be the first customer on entering a shop early morning, your subsequent actions have consequences for the rest of the store owner’s day. If you...
“Birds Without Wings”: Undocumented Tibetans Refugees in Nepal Await Return Home
Being a majority Buddhist people, Tibetans well understand the concept of impermanence, or the temporary nature of all things. And at Tashiling, a permanent Tibetan settlement in Nepal that grew out of a short-term refugee camp, the temporary still reigns...
McBride to Argue Public Interest Defence Next Week, Under Flawed Laws
Former ADF lawyer David McBride is set to appear before the ACT Supreme Court on 27 October, as his public interest disclosure defence hearings commence, under legislation that federal attorney general Mark Dreyfus drafted himself, and now admits is problematic...
OPCAT Debacle Continues: NSW Refuses UN Human Rights Inspectors Enter Prisons
The UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture (SPT) commenced its twelve-day long awaited and belated first visit to our nation on Sunday, in order to gauge how local authorities have implemented the OPCAT: a treaty designed to prevent human...
In Going Green, Australian Companies to Destroy PNG: Interview With PNG Trust’s Joseph Ka’au
The PNG government approved the Papua LNG project in 2019, which is set to be located at the Elk-Antelope gas field. Situated in the Gulf Province, the gas field is located inland from the Gulf of Papua and not far upstream...
All Your Daily Needs on Offer in the Kathmandu Streets: In Photos
With a population of just over 29 million, Nepal is a country of extensive diversity: it’s multiethnic, multicultural, multireligious and multilinguistic. Nepal contains eight of the highest mountains in the world, including the highest point on Earth, Mount Everest, as...
Perrottet Has Passed a Swag of Police State Laws, Just Prior to Likely Election Loss
“The Coalition’s reckless arbitrary intervention and law and order agenda is burning bright” commented Greens MLC Sue Higginson, as the NSW Liberal Nationals rammed through what must have been a record number of police empowering bills in just two sitting...
Dr Alison Broinowski on the War Powers Inquiry Succeeding Despite Marles’ Intervention
For people born over recent decades, global wars and the use of nuclear weapons are aspects of a fading black and white past, despite their having become very real prospects for the near future. Right now, world leaders have been...
Pollies’ Reputation Excuse for Closed Door NACC Proceedings Is Bollocks
The major gripe when ex-attorney general Christian Porter released his national integrity commission legislation in November 2020, almost two years after Scott Morrison promised it, was that when it came to politicians, the proceedings were going to be closed door. The...
