Pork Barrelling Breaches the Rule of Law
Disinformation regarding the lawfulness of pork barrelling prevails at present, and this has been propagated by senior Coalition ministers, an ICAC forum has found. Former PM Scott Morrison suggested last month that the practice of handing out public money to gain...
Dunghutti Activist Paul Silva Calls on Albanese to “Step Up” on Deaths in Custody
“It’s appalling that it’s continuing, and no one is calling it out for what it is: the murder of First Nations people,” said rights activist Paul Silva. “Hopefully, Albanese can step up, take into account these events and recognise what’s...
Canberra and Beijing Scramble for Security Influence in the Pacific
New foreign affairs minister Penny Wong on Wednesday set off on the second leg of her diplomatic tour of Pacific nations with the aim of smoothing over the animosity that’s built up after Morrison government neglect. Wong paid a visit to...
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy Doesn’t Support the Voice Referendum
Aboriginal Tent Embassy representatives are asserting that the Albanese government’s prioritisation of the implementation of the Uluru Statement from the Heart is flawed as no real on-the-ground consensus has ever been established with First Nations peoples in this regard. The main...
The Creativity of Inmates: An Interview With Paper Chained Magazine Editor Damien Linnane
US Professor Angela Davis remarked in an interview with Democracy Now last December, that she was “absolutely surprised” that the concept of prison abolition has “entered into public discourse during this period”. Davis, a key abolitionist, and her colleagues hadn’t expected...
“Frankly Fed Up” With Unjust Drug Driving Laws, Says Legalise Cannabis’ Bernard Bradley
Right now, Legalise Cannabis Australia candidate Bernard Bradley is continuing to threaten the future of Pauline Hanson’s political career, as the pair are in a race to take out the final Queensland Senate seat. The fact that a single-issue party calling...
Albanese Needs to Clean Up Our Nation’s Resident Deportation Regime
Leah Porter took her own life in Sydney’s Villawood Immigration Detention Centre on 22 May: a day after the Albanese government was voted into power. The 53-year-old mother-of-two from Christchurch had been in the centre for five months awaiting deportation...
Collaery Trial Date Set: Federal Government Continues to Prosecute Whistleblowers
The ACT Supreme Court last week set the date for the trial of Canberra barrister Bernard Collaery for 24 October this year. ACT Justice David Mossop did this despite the wishes of Collaery and his lawyer Philip Boulton SC, who consider...
Albanese Gets Back to Business as Usual, But the Progressives Await
This week has been marked by a sense of new hope. With the fall of Morrison, no longer does the nation have to listen to the patronising voice of a glib leader rolling out one-liners with no real meaning, whilst...
Time to Legalise: Australia Demands Cannabis Law Reform
At the time of writing, Pauline Hanson’s seat in the Senate is in question as the votes for the last Queensland upper house seat are still being counted and are too close to call, as Legalise Cannabis candidate Bernie Bradley...
