Professor Launches Legal Proceedings Against Queensland Police
The Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal is currently deliberating upon a case brought by renowned author, academic and activist Professor Chelsea Watego against two Queensland police officers, accusing them of discrimination perpetrated during an arrest. On arrival at a Brisbane nightclub...
King Charles III: Why Is This Man the Australian Head of State?
Australian governor general David Hurley proclaimed Charles Philip Arthur George, or King Charles III, the nation’s head of state at Parliament House in Canberra on Sunday. Steeped in the pomp and ceremony of an empire now thoroughly decayed, the proceedings...
Muay Thai: The Combat Sport Drawing Foreign Competitors to Thailand
It was standing room only at the Phetch Buncha Muay Thai Stadium in Thailand’s Samui last Wednesday night, and the theme to 1976’s Rocky and Survivor’s Eye of the Tiger rang out on constant repeat as the crowd waited for...
State-Captured Albanese Ends the Climate Wars With Gas Expansion
The Albanese government successfully saw its Climate Change Bill 2022, the fabled piece of legislation to “end the climate wars”, passed through the upper house on Thursday, meaning the nation has legislated for a 43 percent emissions reduction on 2005 levels...
F#*k the Greenslide: Albanese Gets into Bed with Dutton on National Security
The twilights years of the Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison government were marked by the realisation that the framework of national security and terrorism laws passed over the last decades had become so broad that the much-warned-of implications for regular civilians were starting to...
Australian Police Continue to Raid Cannabis Farmers… Meanwhile in Thailand
Strike Force Mactier raided a Peats Ridge property on 26 August, seizing 50 kilograms worth of cannabis head and 2,137 plants from four greenhouses. NSW police officers arrested three men in relation to the setup, charging them with large commercial cultivation and...
Five Years in Indonesian Immigration Limbo: An Interview With Hazara Refugee Karima Hakimi
Hazara woman Karima Hakimi, her husband, her four children and her elderly mother have all been stuck in the Indonesia immigration detention system on the island of Java since August 2017, with the succeeding years being lived in a state of...
An Australian Republic: Morrison Scandal Marks Death Knell of British Crown
Governor general David Hurley stood by as then prime minister Scott Morrison made a powerplay to obtain the keys to five additional government departments. Holding ultimate power, Hurley, the Queen’s representative down under, either did this with the understanding that...
Adani v Dad: Mining Giant Continues Supreme Court Case Against Brisbane Father
Galilee Blockade activist Ben Pennings is currently being dragged through the Queensland Supreme Court by the world’s fourth richest individual, Gautam Adani, as the Indian mining magnate seeks $17 million in damages over campaigning against his Carmichael coal mine. As part...
Morrison Scandal Highlights the Folly of the First Nations Voice Relying on Good Faith
The Morrison multiple ministries scandal has exposed a significant issue with relying on convention in politics. Convention involves carrying out a particular process in an established manner that’s not governed by a specific law but is rather guaranteed by its...
