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...
As Street Dog Care in Kathmandu Grows, Community Attitude to Strays Is Shifting
If you ever find yourself in the forecourt of the Boudhanath Stupa, a revered Buddhist monument located on the northeastern outskirts of Kathmandu city at about noon on a Saturday, you’re likely to come across a rainbow-coloured beach umbrella, with...
International Far-Right Monitor Identifies Australian Hate Groups
The US-based Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) last week released its report into Australia, in which the thinktank rips our nation - with its “history of far-right and white supremacist activism, often rooted in its colonial experience” - a...
Dunghutti Activist Paul Silva Calls on Wider NSW to Protest Record Custody Deaths
The NSW criminal justice system is killing more First Nations people than ever before. A total of 16 Indigenous people of various ethnicities died in the custody of either NSW police or Corrective Services NSW in 2021, which is the...
Dristi Nepal’s Parina Subba Limbu on the Rights of Women Who Use Drugs
Established in 2006, Dristi Nepal is a peer-led harm reduction organisation for women who use drugs, those living with HIV and sex workers. Since April 2018, the organisation has been running a needle and syringe program for women who inject drugs in...
Labor Says “F#*K Off We’re Full” to Medevac Refugees, After a Decade of Torture
The Liberal Nationals government tortured and imprisoned thousands of the planet’s most desperate people in facilities built on the soil of poorer nations for years because they arrived in Australian waters by boat seeking asylum, which is completely legal under...
NSW Labor Considers Revoking Draconian Anti-Protest Laws
Another wave of extreme rainfall and flooding is only just beginning in NSW. This seems inconceivable after the deluge of March was already repeated in July. Yet, NSW premier Dominic Perrottet’s “one-in-a-thousand-year” flood event is now happening for a third time...
Beyond the Material: Capturing Thai Spirituality in Photos
Thailand is renowned for its Buddhism. With around 95 percent of the population adherents, temples, or wats, pepper the landscape, and bright, orange-robed monks stroll the streets. There are two strains of Buddhism: Theravada and Mahayana. In Thailand, the former is practiced....
