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...
Uyghur County Has Highest Prison Rate on Earth: Interview With AUTWA’s Ramila Chanisheff
Currently, Konasheher county in southern East Turkestan has the highest imprisonment rate in the world. One out of every 25 of its local Uyghur citizens is detained within the China-run prison system. Beijing, however, refers to the region as Shufu...
The Return of the Dutton: The Coalition Strikes Back With the Archconservative
With that other guy having stepped down as leader of the federal Liberals after losing the election, and other favoured members having fallen by the wayside during the vote, ultraconservative Peter Dutton is set to step into the role of...
“The Most Culturally Diverse Federal Election Ever”: Interview With Politics in Colour’s Kat Henaway
As Australians headed to the ballot box last Saturday, the BBC ran an article headlined, Why Is Australia’s Parliament so White? The piece pointed out that despite our nation being one of the most multicultural in the world, 96 percent of...
