Police Overreach: Officers Harass Patrons Inside Sydney Events Venue
Anti-drug dog campaign Sniff Off reported on 12 November 2022 that it had received reports from Oxford Art Factory patrons that NSW police officers were requiring them to identify themselves via the use of their mobile phones, even though venue security had...
NZ Delegation Puts Australian Deportation Abuses on UN Torture Agenda
A delegation of high-level Australian officials appeared before the UN Committee Against Torture last week to participate in the nation’s four yearly review on how its tracking in terms of adherence to the 1984 Convention Against Torture (CAT), as well...
Talking Rights and Mobilisation With India’s Durbar Sex Worker Collective
Sex work is said to be the oldest profession on Earth. However, unlike jurisdictions such as NSW, where laws are in place that serve to uphold the rights of sex workers, often in other regions around the globe, sex workers are...
With McBride and Boyle Fried, Dreyfus Commits to Whistleblower Protections
Federal attorney general Mark Dreyfus delivered the keynote speech at the Australian Public Sector Anti-Corruption Conference in Sydney on Wednesday, in which he promised to introduce a bill to “make priority amendments” to the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013, by the...
Witch-Hunting Is Gender-Based Violence: Talking Women’s Rights With India’s North East Network
Witch-hunting is a form of communal violence that continues in some parts of the world, including the state of Assam in Northeast India. It almost always targets women, can act as punishment for tragedies with no direct relation to the...
Calls for Inquiry Into Illegal Use of Strip Searches and Efficacy of Drug Dog Operations
A sizable number of Sydneysiders know the experience all too well: it’s early Friday evening, you’ve left work for the week and made your way down to the local, and as you’re sinking a few with some friends, some jokers...
A-G Won’t Explain How ‘The Voice’ Will Affect Acknowledged First Nations Sovereignty
Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe has been repeatedly putting to the government, whether First Nations recognition in the Constitution, along with the insertion of an advisory body with no guaranteed authority, will affect Indigenous sovereignty. The government and the media have been...
Indian Trade Unions Protest in Kolkata Over Teachers Recruitment Scam: In Photos
A coalition of Indian trade unions marched through Kolkata on 1 November 2022 from the Esplanade Tram Depot through to Calcutta University, expressing their solidarity with 500-odd former students who passed the Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET) in 2014 but were...
A Photographic Deliberation Upon Kolkata’s Controversial Hand-Pulled Rickshaws
While NSW remains tightly regulated in terms of transportation, even outlawing e-Scooters on roads and road-related areas, there are a range of options overseas. Kolkata’s hand-pulled rickshaws are something of an institution in the city of joy. Known in Bengali...
“In India, We’re All Advocates”: Photographs of the Legal System in Guwahati, Assam
Lawyers are called ‘advocates’ in India, they’re called ‘attorneys’ in the US, and so-called ‘solicitors’ in Australia are now in the courts daily, so why does there remain a distinction between ‘solicitors’ and ‘barristers’. Sydney Criminal Lawyers bumped into a...
