Giving Voice to Migrants and Refugees: An Interview With IMA’s Professor Bruno Di Biase
The start of the COVID-19 pandemic saw the entire nation of Australia go into lockdown. However, when 500 Victoria police officers were deployed to enforce a hard lockdown at nine public housing towers in North Melbourne and Flemington, it was...
Six Years on, Still No Justice for David Dungay Jnr, Says Dunghutti Activist Paul Silva
The footage of five Long Bay prison guards holding David Dungay Jnr facedown in the prone position on a bed, as he screams out that he can’t breathe multiple times, is not only hard to watch, but it begs why it...
Doctors Implore Joyce to Back His Words and See Assange Released
The UK High Court determined on 10 December that Julian Assange could be extradited to the United States to face multiple espionage charges carrying up to 175 years imprisonment. This is even with the Australian journalist having suffered a ministroke during...
The Doctrine of Discovery: The Church Legalised the European Colonial Project
UK Captain James Cook arrived on the east coast of the continent these days referred to as Australia in August 1770, and he claimed the island in the name of King George III, on the basis that it was terra nullius: “that...
NZ and US Pass Laws to Reduce Smoking Harms, While Australia Makes it Harder to Quit
The NZ government launched its Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan on 9 December. A decade in the making, the policy proposes to see less than 5 percent of the population smoking in four years’ time, within a country that sees a...
Have Yourself a Very Perrottet Christmas
As Dominic Perrottet took over the reins of the NSW Liberal Nationals government on 5 October, it was understood that the new premier was going to shift the decade-long conservative governance in this state a trifle further to the right…...
Demerge Mega-Councils: An Interview With Residents for Deamalgamation’s Andrew Chuter
The 4 December elections for Inner West Council were different to the votes held at all other 127 local government areas in NSW, as the constituents in Sydney’s inner west had an extra optional question to deliberate upon, and that was whether...
The Queen Is “Completely Anathema” to Australia: CLA’s Bill Rowlings on a Republic
A first-time visitor on arrival to Australia, might question why Queen Elizabeth II is on the back of all the coins. Truth be told, however, a lot of locals, when catching a glimpse of her head on the back, wonder...
US Votes Against UN Adopted Anti-Nazi Resolution, While Australia Abstains
The 76th session of the UN General Assembly last week adopted a resolution on “combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance”. Initiated by the Russian...
Imagining Prison Abolition Is Not Difficult, Says Sisters Inside’s Debbie Kilroy
When the British arrived by boat to colonise this continent in 1788, it was all about incarceration. The First Fleet brought with it large numbers of inmates, military officers and a foreign law system with carceral punishment as an integral...
