“No Time to Waste”: Harbour Bridge Protester and Firefighter Alan Glover on Voting for Climate
As Alan Glover was driving a small truck towards the Sydney Harbour Bridge on 13 April 2022, the volunteer firefighter of four decades told those watching a livestream that he and his fellow Fireproof Australia protesters were taking park in the...
Occupying Perrottet Over Coal Expansion: An Interview With Rising Tide’s Shaun Murray
Rising Tide Australia occupied NSW premier Dominic Perrottet’s electoral office in Epping a week out from the NSW election. And the group of around 15 climate defenders, half of whom were high school students, took over the space with the...
Far Right Actors Mobilise on Australian Streets Against LGBTIQ Communities
This last weekend saw a disturbing trend in far-right mobilisations in Australia’s largest cities, as Christian Lives Matter took over Sydney’s Hyde Park and the National Socialist Network gave the Nazi salute outside Melbourne Parliament House, with both groups targeting LGBTIQ...
Value Democracy? Vote Progressives for NSW, as Majors Double Down on Dissent
This time last year was marked by a surge in nonviolent climate action being taken in Sydney, the capital of a state that had fast become a frontline of the climate crisis, following years of extreme drought and wildfires, with...
Sydney’s Rainbow Community Faces Off Rising Christian Extremism: In Digital Images
The attempt to stamp out other people’s identities as they don’t comply with one’s own group’s style of dress or adult behaviour in the bedroom is a fascist tendency. On Saturday in Hyde Park North, a group of Christian fascists...
Albanese Gifts Australian Autonomy to US, as We Become Frontline in War on China
A visually uncomfortable Anthony Albanese featured on The Project on Thursday night, as appearing on the popular TV program, the PM could no longer deliver the friendly banter the country had grown used to over his honeymoon period, as we all...
In Our Blood: Sex Worker Rights Advocate Julie Bates Reflects on the ABC Miniseries
This Sunday night sees the ABC screening the first episode of the four part miniseries In Our Blood, which is a depiction of how the Australian government handled the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s, with the government approach taken having been...
Violet Coco Wins District Court Appeal, But NSW Police Continue to Target Climate Protesters
Violet Coco has had her 15 month prison sentence as well as her criminal conviction quashed by NSW District Court Judge Mark Williams, who yesterday allowed the climate defender’s appeal against severity and resentenced her to a 12 month conditional...
Seen to Be Taking Action: Sydney Climate Coalition’s James Supple on the Safeguard Mechanism
As soon as the Albanese government took over in May 2022, international media commentators began referring to the new administration as forward-thinking on the issue of climate, in stark contrast to those who’d been voted out. Indeed, under then prime...
“If Not Us, Then Who?”: An Interview With Animal Justice Party Candidate Alison Waters
As Australian animal rights pioneer Linda Stoner remarked at a recent rally in Sydney, back in the 1970s, when she first became a vegetarian after reading academic Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation, trying to find a restaurant that could facilitate her...
