Morrison Recommits to Legislating Discrimination Against Those Who Don’t Mirror Him
PM Scott Morrison last weekend recommitted to seeing the Religious Discrimination (RD) Bill passed if re-elected. He also underscored that the issue that stalled its passing this session - religious schools discriminating against LGBTQ people - will be separated from...
Minor Parties May Hold the Key to a Legalised and Regulated Cannabis Market
The situation with illegal recreational cannabis in Australia is beyond ridiculous. The 2019 National Drug Strategy Household Survey outlines that 36 percent of locals have used the fairly innocuous plant at some point in time, 11 percent of the population had use...
The Extralegal Christmas Island Brutality Regime: Interview With Refugee Action Coalition’s Ian Rintoul
Victoria police pepper sprayed refugee activists out the front of the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) centre on 3 May, as 12 detainees were hauled off by the Australia Border Force to be transferred to the Christmas Island immigration facility....
Shoebridge on Delivering a Federal ICAC With Teeth Soon After Taking Senate
Over their current terms in office, the federal and NSW Liberal Nationals governments have been rocked by one grants scandal after another. At the state level, NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian resigned, while federally, Senator Bridget McKenzie was provided with a new...
The Majors Claims on Climate Action Are Lies, Time for Progressives to Take the Lead
Australia is an international pariah when it comes to climate inaction. But that’s not of real concern to the majors in relation to the 21 May election. The main issue for the Coalition and Labor is putting across a domestic...
Yuendumu Walpiri Elders Call for Indefinite Police Ceasefire: Karrinjarla Muwajarri
Just two months after NT police constable Zachary Rolfe got off scot-free over the shooting death of Kumanjayi Walker, whilst his partner was on top of the 19-year-old Warlpiri teen, the NT police minister Nicole Manison on 5 May announced the biggest...
The Link Between Rising Authoritarianism and the Protection of Big Business
NSW premier Dominic Perrottet has done quite a good job of presenting himself as something of a “swell guy”, despite the fact he’s an extreme ultraconservative who has just overseen the passing of the most draconian anti-protest laws in any...
Rights-Based NGO Rates Political Parties on Trade Justice
Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) is a mechanism often incorporated into free trade agreements, which provides corporations with specific rights that allow them to sue governments if their business interests are affected by decisions made by local authorities that are adverse to...
The War Against First Nations Hasn’t Ended, It’s Just Become More Subtle
“I didn’t do it. That was 200 years ago. It’s not my fault” has been a common sentiment expressed amongst Anglo Australians for decades, and, although fading, most continue to abide by it as they concurrently reap the benefits of...
“We Have a Conservative Anti-Protest Consensus in Politics”, Says Legal Observers NSW’s Anastasia
Protest is an exceptionally important part of the NSW liberal democracy, especially considering how it works: citizens get to vote every four years, and from there, for the most part, the government tries to ignore their desires and opinions, unless...
