“A Highly Politicised Use of Police”: Shoebridge on COVID Policing, Quotas and Drug Dogs
The NSW Police Force has dropped its controversial policy of providing each area command across the state with a set of personal search and move-on order targets that officers were expected to meet over a financial year. The quotas, or...
March This Invasion Day: NSWALRA’s Clayton Simpson-Pitt on the Sydney Rally
This 26th of January marks 234 years since the British ships arrived at Kamay-Botany Bay to commence a colonial project that involved genocide upon and the dispossession of the hundreds of First Nations that exist right across the continent now...
Morrison Created the Immigration Minister’s “God-Like Powers” When He Held Office
The deportation of the world’s number one tennis player, Novak Djokovic, on the spurious ground that he had the potential to provoke antivaxx sentiment, rather than any stated mission to do so, was political theatre par excellence, as the PM,...
Religious Schools Retain Right to Sack LGBTQ Teachers and Expel Students, For Now
The Attorney General Department’s submission to two parliamentary reviews of the Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 (the RD Bill) confirms that the legislation does not have any effect upon religious exemptions currently contained in federal law. Section 38 of the Sex Discrimination Act...
The Coalition Attacks the Public Health by Cover of COVID Authoritarianism
When the NSW premier wants to remove COVID measures designed to preserve the public health, such as masks requirements, it’s all about “personal responsibility”. But, when it comes to reporting results from non-existent rapid antigen tests, suddenly Dominic Perrottet doesn’t...
Djokovic Detained With Refugees and Visa Revoked to Make Tough Border Statement
The Novak Djokovic saga raises a lot of questions. The initial one being, would the Morrison government have locked up the world number one tennis champion if he’d been a citizen from a predominantly white English-speaking country? Then there’s, why,...
Coalition Targets Parliament Sex Scandal Whistleblower, Rather Than Its Own
For those who haven’t been watching, early last year federal parliament was rocked by the revelations around the Brittany Higgins sexual assault and its subsequent coverup, as well as the historical rape allegations involving now expired minister Christian Porter. Then, as...
“All Roads Lead to the Aboriginal Tent Embassy”: Gwenda Stanley on the 50th Anniversary
The 26th of January marks 50 years since the Aboriginal Tent Embassy was established on the lawns out the front of the building today known as Old Parliament House. Situated in Canberra, the Embassy operates upon Ngambri-Ngunnawal Country. The Tent Embassy...
Premier Domicron Destroys the Economy, Along With the Public Health
Viruses don’t adhere to political ideologies: this is the lesson newly-incumbent NSW premier Dominic Perrottet has been learning over the Christmas-New Year period. As he took the reins of the state following the demise of predecessor Gladys Berejikilian, Perrottet notoriously...
“Brute Force and Paternalistic Grand Standing”: Sniff Off’s Olivia Barlow on NSW Police Drug Dog Use
After near on two years of the NSW government having relied on local police to heavy-handedly enforce health measures via the threat of monetary penalisation, and, if that didn’t work, brute force, premier Dominic Perrottet has let the COVID Omicron...
