Turning Lip Service into Action: An Interview with Labor Candidate Stephen Lawrence
The recent wipe out of the Liberal Nationals in Victoria does not bode well for the Perrottet government in NSW. And with a state election looming next March, it’s more than likely that the Coalition will soon be dislodged from...
Appointing Deputy Commissioner to Reform QPS Is a Mistake, Warns Whistleblower Rick Flori
Publicly released last week, A Call for Change is a report into the Queensland Police Service response to family and domestic violence carried out by an independent commission led by Queensland Judge Deborah Richards, which has caused quite a stir. The report...
Report Confirms Endemic Misogyny and Racism Within Queensland Police Service
Established in May 2022, the Commission of Inquiry into Queensland Police Service responses to domestic and family violence publicly released its report, A Call for Change, last week. And what began as an investigation into a policing issue, led to a...
The Great China Reset: It’s a Little Too Early to Put Your Weapons Back in Storage
After months of continuing to rally against China as the enemy, Australian PM Anthony Albanese sat down to have a 32-minute diplomatic meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping, at the latter’s request, on 15 November 2022 in Bali, as the...
Morrison’s Multi-Ministry Power Grab Had Nothing to Do with the Pandemic
“In other words, Mr Morrison had been appointed to administer six of the fourteen departments of state,” former High Court Justice Virginia Bell remarks towards the beginning of her report into the Morrison multi-ministries scandal that came to light earlier this...
This is a Police State: Restore the Right to Demonstrate
The footage of the attack upon Sydney protester Danny Lim on the part of two NSW police officers in plain view of the public, indeed in a main thoroughfare of the Queen Victoria Building, was not only brutal but it also...
Older Women Are the Fastest Growing Cohort of Homeless, Explains Greens MLC Abigail Boyd
Research released on Tuesday outlines that based on the 2021 Census there are currently around 640,000 households nationwide with housing needs that aren’t being met, and based on projected growth, this is set to increase to 940,000 households by the year...
Protecting Australian Whistleblowers: The Federal Roadmap Report
On the back of our nation’s chief lawmaker announcing that he’s set to overhaul federal public service whistleblower laws, which was made amidst rising calls to drop high-profile prosecutions, two of the nation’s experts on such protections have released a report on...
NSW Police Has No Place at Mardi Gras, Says Pride in Protest’s Mikhael Burnard
Pride in Protest is continuing to rally against the participation of the NSW Police Force in the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, as the organisation’s annual general meeting draws closer. And this year, the controversy involves pre-parade decency checks conducted...
Police Assault on Lim Raises Questions About the Enforcement of Law in NSW
Sydney is aghast over the assault perpetrated upon nonviolent elderly protester Danny Lim by two police officers on Tuesday. And there’s much chatter on social media about the broader implications of this type of incident being carried out by officers who...
