“Be Prepared for Ruin When Blowing the Whistle”: Independent Calls for Real Protections
Despite decades of calls for greater whistleblower protections and faux moves by Canberra to provide them, the fire at the base of the stake that those who expose institutional corruption are tied to is only growing stronger. The political prosecution...
Morrison’s Deporting Crime Issues to New Zealand, and It’s Starting to Feel It
They’re commonly known as 501ers, Australian migrant residents who get deported because they fail the character test contained in section 501 of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth). And the overwhelming majority of them are New Zealanders. Since then immigration minister Scott Morrison...
A Constant Erosion of Citizens’ Rights: An Interview With Liberty Victoria’s Michael Stanton
Rights, or our lack thereof them, have become an increasing concern over the last three years of Morrison’s governance. Most overtly we saw the extreme curtailing of freedoms with the lockdowns and restrictions used as a means to prevent COVID-19...
“The Key Decisions Are Being Made in Boardrooms”: Scott Ludlam Talks State Capture
Holding the belief that the climate is changing to the detriment of people and planet, used to be unfashionable. Indeed, NSW premier Dominic Perrottet still seems to think it is. But the shock of the 2019 climate-driven megafires brought most...
A Bill to End Ongoing Stolen Generations Is on the Verge of Becoming Law
A pivotal moment in our state’s history quietly took place on 23 February, as a piece of legislation designed to end the ongoing crisis in forced Aboriginal child removals passed through the NSW Legislative Council. The laws now have a...
“A Woke Mob Democracy”: Christensen Decries a Nation Devoid of Christian Liberties
“I firmly believe that politics is broken,” declares Liberal National MP George Christensen, in a promotion clip for the Church and State Summit 2022. “We have slipped as a nation from a liberal democracy, where freedoms were once cherished things, to...
Let’s “Focus on Relieving Tensions”, Says Chomsky. With a Global War, “We’re Done”
Esteemed political commentator MIT Professor Noam Chomsky has long warned that the two greatest existential threats the globe is facing are climate change and nuclear war. Although for many, the latter used to seem like a throwback fear to the 1980s....
Point-Blank First Nations Custodial Shooting: Killer Cop Walks Free
One man holds down another who’s struggling, but the scissors the captive had struck the first man’s mate in the shoulder with no longer pose a threat. The guy who was hit with the household implement walks across the room...
The Morrison Government’s Targeted Persecution of Transgender People
Morrison’s never attempted to conceal his prejudice against LGBTIQ people. He walked out during the marriage equality vote, he’s said inclusive teen sex education makes his “skin curl”, and just after he swiped the top job, he termed school counsellors who...
Rain Bombs, Megafires, Drought: Morrison Guarantees Worst Yet to Come
The nation’s largest city, Sydney, became the frontline of the climate crisis for the first time ever in recent days, as floods that have been wiping out people’s lives and entire towns right along the eastern seaboard, suddenly gushed through...
