A-G Won’t Explain How ‘The Voice’ Will Affect Acknowledged First Nations Sovereignty
Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe has been repeatedly putting to the government, whether First Nations recognition in the Constitution, along with the insertion of an advisory body with no guaranteed authority, will affect Indigenous sovereignty. The government and the media have been...
Indian Trade Unions Protest in Kolkata Over Teachers Recruitment Scam: In Photos
A coalition of Indian trade unions marched through Kolkata on 1 November 2022 from the Esplanade Tram Depot through to Calcutta University, expressing their solidarity with 500-odd former students who passed the Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET) in 2014 but were...
A Photographic Deliberation Upon Kolkata’s Controversial Hand-Pulled Rickshaws
While NSW remains tightly regulated in terms of transportation, even outlawing e-Scooters on roads and road-related areas, there are a range of options overseas. Kolkata’s hand-pulled rickshaws are something of an institution in the city of joy. Known in Bengali...
“In India, We’re All Advocates”: Photographs of the Legal System in Guwahati, Assam
Lawyers are called ‘advocates’ in India, they’re called ‘attorneys’ in the US, and so-called ‘solicitors’ in Australia are now in the courts daily, so why does there remain a distinction between ‘solicitors’ and ‘barristers’. Sydney Criminal Lawyers bumped into a...
Australian Government Acknowledges First Nations Sovereignty to Senator Thorpe
“First Nations people have been sovereign people of these lands for thousands and thousands of generations. They - we - are sovereign people,” explained Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe to a panel of Attorney General Department representatives, who’d been skirting around...
COP-OUT-27 Albanese: The Flipside to Morrison on the Pro-Fossil Fuel Coin
COP27, or the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, is currently taking place in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh. And guess who’s not going to make it, our prime minister Anthony Albanese. Why? Because he’s got more important matters...
Thugs in Blue Uniforms: Raptor Squad Raid Party, Assault Students and Trash House
The officers making up Raptor Squad, the formerly known as Strike Force Raptor, have long been known to be a bunch of thugs in blue uniforms, equipped with handguns and tasers, who, for some reason, are permitted to run riot, despite...
Tibetans Storm Delhi’s Chinese Embassy Over COVID Abuses: An Interview With TYC’s Tenzin Dhonden
Seventy three members of the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) stormed the Chinese Embassy in the Indian capital of Delhi on 1 October to demand that Beijing stop using its Zero COVID policy as a means to further repress those living in occupied...
Dr Tim Anderson on His Intellectual Freedom Court Victory and “Slow Genocide” in Palestine
Dr Tim Anderson was victorious on 27 October, after having raised multiple court challenges, which appealed the decision to dismiss him from his position of Sydney University senior lecturer in political economy on the basis of a series of intellectual points...
Capturing Tibetan Culture in Photos as it Flourishes at Nepal’s Boudhanath Stupa
As you fly into Kathmandu airport, you might note at the last minute just before landing, a huge white circular structure with a golden triangular tower adorning it, which soars above all other buildings in the surrounding area. That’s the...
