The Trans-Tasman PM Meeting Resulted in No 501 Deportation Regime Reforms
An 8th July joint communique by Australian PM Anthony Albanese and NZ counterpart Jacinda Ardern released following the Australia New Zealand Leaders’ meeting in Sydney makes no mention of the key gripe between nations, which is Australia’s deporting people to...
Albanese Goads Greens on Climate, Yet the Party Is Offering the People’s Targets
Prime minister Anthony Albanese claimed on Tuesday that the actions of the Greens “led to a decade of inaction and delay and denial” on climate, while that party, now holding balance of power in the Senate, is prioritising the targets needed...
The Crackdown on Climate Defenders Will Result in an Escalation in Tactics
The Perrottet government jamming through the most draconian protests laws in the nation over a 48 hour period in March, reveals that the “climate wars” that the new prime minister promised to end on taking office two months later, have only...
Opposition to Santos Gas in the Pilliga Is the Largest Ever Seen, Say Gomeroi Women
The Gomeroi people voted overwhelmingly against Santos’ proposed Narrabri gas project at a meeting in Tamworth on 25 March. The Australian fossil fuel company has been negotiating with the Gomeroi Nation going back a decade, and this rejection was to an...
Good Luck if Government Thinks It’s Shutting Down Climate Action, Says Father of Gaoled Activist
Blockade Australia activists Max Curmi and Tim Neville have just served three weeks in Parklea Prison, not because they’ve been convicted of a crime but as they were refused bail, despite being nonviolent climate defenders posing no real harm to...
Family Demands Inquest, After Hospital Sends Kamilaroi Dunghutti Man Home to Die
Ricky “Dougie” Hampson Junior presented to Dubbo Hospital last August, with severe stomach pain, which was accompanied by a popping and tearing sensation, while his heart was racing at a rate of 130 beats per minute. Two perforated ulcers, which...
If Assange Is Sent to the US, He Will Die, Pilger Says, as Australia Continues to Collude
“I don’t think there is any doubt in my mind, as there is no doubt in the minds of his loved ones, that if Julian goes to the United States, and is effectively dropped in a penal hellhole, that will...
NSW Government to Expand Power to Seize Unexplained Wealth
Acting NSW police commissioner David Hudson flagged the scenario of his officers pulling up a young person driving a luxury sports car and questioning them as to how they came to be behind the wheel of such an expensive vehicle,...
Labor Has Ended the Political Prosecution of Bernard Collaery
Federal attorney general Mark Dreyfus announced in Sydney on Thursday that he’s ordered the prosecution of Bernard Collaery to be dropped. The ACT barrister was being pursued over charges relating to his having exposed the Howard government’s illegal bugging of the...
“Tibetan Sovereignty Hasn’t Been Ceded”: An Interview With Greens Senator Janet Rice
The 8th World Parliamentarians Conference on Tibet took place two weeks ago. Organised by the Tibetan government-in-exile, the meeting involved politicians discussing the need for greater global coordination around the issue of China’s seventy-year occupation of Tibet. Following a ground invasion in...
