Proceeds of Crime Laws Are Now Being Used to Target Climate Activists
The November crackdown on Blockade Australia climate activists in Newcastle gained widespread attention after one protester, Sergeio Herbert, was actually sentenced to hard time for his part in nonviolent direct actions that were targeting the world’s largest coal port. Herbert was sent...
Morrison’s Crusade to Re-Christianise the Nation Via Religious Liberties
Berkeley Professor Wendy Brown outlines that the Christian Right in the United States has been attempting to re-Christianise the public sphere since the 1990s, and this campaign has been gaining traction over the last decade, especially with the coming of...
Silence as Closest Allies Continue Extralegal Detention of Assange, 1,000 Days On
Reporters Without Borders marked the thousandth day that Julian Assange has been detained in London’s Belmarsh maximum security prison on Wednesday, with a message highlighting that the Wikileaks founder has been targeted not for any crimes, but for his “contributions to journalism”....
Stop the Dame Phyllis Frost Expansion: An Interview with Homes Not Prisons’ Karen Fletcher
On 19 March last year, the Andrews government announced a $188.9 million expansion for Victoria’s Dame Phyllis Frost Centre - a maximum security prison for women - which proposes the provision of an additional 106 new inmate beds. Increasing the capacity...
NSW Police See In the New Year Having a Field Day Enforcing Antiquated Drug Laws
As COVID-19 cases soar to unprecedented levels statewide and testing measures are withdrawn to almost nonexistence, NSW police has decided it’s an opportune moment to, once again, start cracking down on locals just trying to have a good time. The NSW...
“Adani’s Mine Is Up and Running”: Frontline Action on Coal’s Andy Paine on Disrupting It
As Australia shutdown for the Christmas-New Year period, Indian mining giant Adani announced on 27 December, that it was close to sending its first shipload of coal exports from its Carmichael mine, situated in central Queensland’s Galilee Basin, overseas. The greenlighting...
Far-Right Provocateurs Have Descended Upon Old Parliament House
The symbolism conveyed by the front entrance of Old Parliament House going up in flames on 30 December is clear: Australia is a democracy in trouble. Of course, it’s foundations have always been in dispute, as the nation was created...
Letting COVID Rip Condemns the Vulnerable to Ensure Market Wellbeing
After a year and a half of lockdowns, border closures, mask-wearing and distancing, coupled with the 2021 vaccine rollout, the Morrison and Perrottet governments have championed the “let it rip” pandemic approach, which means late-arriving Omicron is surging at unprecedented...
Morrison’s Divisive Leadership Is Corroding the Nation
Under three years of Scott Morrison’s leadership, Australia has fractured. The Liberal leader’s prioritisation of the needs of corporations over the people and his persistent avoidance of key issues - whether in presence or in rhetoric - has far broadened...
Sydney Festival Boycott Grows Due to Sponsorship from Apartheid Israel
The ever-growing boycott of the coming Sydney Festival over its partnering with the Israeli embassy in Canberra, is hardly surprising given the more than 70 years of oppression Palestinians have faced, which this year saw yet another escalation in unbridled...
