The Political Climate Being Conjured by Morrison Is Hardly the Way Forward
Earlier this week, it came to light that Brisbane’s Citipointe Christian College had sent out an updated enrolment contract to parents specifying that the religious school reserved the right to expel their children on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity....
Amnesty Declares Israel an Apartheid State
The understanding that Israel is operating as an apartheid state, whereby Palestinian citizens are systematically discriminated against and oppressed has been growing. But there still exists a fierce resistance to asserting this on mainstream media platforms. This is likely to...
The Genocide Games: AUTWA’s Ramila Chanisheff on Boycotting the Beijing Olympics
The independent Uyghur Tribunal delivered its final report in December, outlining that it found China’s treatment of the Uyghur people living in the province of Xinjiang - known to the Indigenous people as East Turkestan - amounts to genocide. While French parliamentarians...
Morrison to Silence Online Dissent Under Pretext of Protecting Against Trolls
Governments globally have found social media a prickly beast to deal with, as it’s provided those not usually afforded a voice in the mainstream media with a platform and an audience where they can express opinions, without being filtered through...
Boycott Beijing’s Sportswashing: An Interview With Australia Tibet Council’s Dr Zoe Bedford
The Australia Tibet Council, and other human rights groups, staged a rally out the front of the Channel 7 studios in Sydney’s Martin Place last Friday. Those demonstrating were calling out the television network for its part in broadcasting the Beijing...
Australia Fails on OPCAT Implementation to Detriment of Those Inside
The nation of Australia has a stark prison problem. As Britain began its takeover, the premise was a penal colony on an empty island at the other end of the Earth, and whilst the pillaging of land and resources from the...
COVID Positive Inmates Try to Avoid Detection, as Hundreds Infected Inside
According to Justice Action coordinator Brett Collins, the system Corrective Services NSW is employing in dealing with COVID-19 cases within the state’s prison system is leading to a number of prisoners, who believe they’ve contracted the virus, to avoid the testing...
The Morrison Government’s Term Has Shown Terror Laws Target Us All
A general shift towards a more authoritarian form of governance is becoming apparent to a broader section of the populace. No longer are people blindly turning their heads away with carefree statements, such as, “I’ve got nothing to hide,” as...
“Torturing Innocent People”: Activist Claire Gomez on Freeing the Park Refugees
After having locked up Novak Djokovic in the same immigration prison as over two dozen former offshore detainees - whilst his government drew out the media spectacle around whether to deport him - the PM decided to tell a blatant...
The Pilliga Project: The Documentary-Makers on Preventing Narrabri Gas Devastation
In the midst of a pandemic, just half a year after a climate-driven bushfire destroyed large tracts of land, and not long following a years-long drought having devastated the country’s southeast, PM Scott Morrison stood before the nation to unleash...
