Albanese Refuses Nation Any Say in Joining War on China, Explains Senator Jordon Steele-John
On Wednesday morning, Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John brought on debate over his legislation, which sought to shift the ability to make the decision on whether to enter into an overseas war away from the PM and a handful of ministers,...
“Provoking a Defensive Response From China”: AWPR’s Dr Alison Broinowski on AUKUS
The announcement of the details of AUKUS, delivered by prime minister Anthony Albanese and his US and UK counterparts in San Diego on 14 March, elevated the build-up to war with China and the goading of Xi government. The prominent detail...
Dreyfus Convenes a Human Rights Act Inquiry: ‘It’s Time… Has Come’, Says Liberties Advocate
Australia desperately needs federal human rights protections, which is an understanding that’s been growing in the community over recent years. However, the Liberal Nationals are clearly opposed to such a move, whilst successive Labor administrations have merely flirted with the...
Victorian Policing of Opposing Protests Was Biased in Favour of Nazis, Legal Group Observes
As UK anti-transgender figure Kellie-Jay Keen was about to stage one of her divisive Let Women Speak events before Victorian parliament in Melbourne on 18 March, about 30 members of the National Socialist Network, the nation’s most prominent neo-Nazi group, mobilised in...
Packed Marrickville Peace Meeting Says, ‘No to AUKUS and War on China, Mr Albanese’
A crowd of concerned community members packed Marrickville Town Hall last Sunday afternoon, 19 March, to mark 20 years since the beginning of the war in Iraq and reflect on how lessons learnt from lies told then, might inform current debate...
Filming Police: National Justice Project’s George Newhouse on the CopWatch App
A bare-fisted fight club operating in the NSW Northern Rivers region of Casino has recently come to the attention of NSW police, which has involved local youths partaking in illegal street fighting events and then posting footage and stills of the brawls...
Christian Thugs Attack Nonviolent Trans Rights Demonstrators at One Nation Rally
Hundreds of Christian Lives Matter members descended upon a group of Community Action for Rainbow Rights (CARR) activists holding a nonviolent protest a block away from a church hall in southwest Sydney, where One Nation NSW leader Mark Latham was delivering...
“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...
