Rights Infringements Are Likely to Worsen in an Era of Mounting Crises
As the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically revealed, government responses to crises result in the winding back of citizens’ rights. And this unleashing of emergency powers, coupled with the withdrawal of freedoms, exposes the bare bones of the body politic. The...
Morrison Legislates to Enhance the Mass Deportation of Residents
Fortress Australia champion and prime minister of the nation Scott Morrison oversaw the passing of a raft of amendments to the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) in November 2014. These served to strengthen the character test set out in section 501...
How the Overturning of the US Right to Abortion Could Bode for Australia
The 1973 US Supreme Court case Roe v Wade determined that a Texas law preventing abortion unless a women’s life was in danger was unconstitutional. And this finding established a national right to abortion, which prohibits states from banning it prior to foetal...
Doctors Warn Assange’s Health Can’t Take Anymore AUKUS-Sanctioned Torture
The US and the UK governments have been slowly torturing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for the last decade via a range of measures, including the deprivation of liberty, prolonged isolation, medical neglect and an ongoing character assassination campaign. Successive Australian...
Voluntary Assisted Dying Likely to Pass in NSW, Says Dying With Dignity’s Shayne Higson
NSW is now the only Australian state that doesn’t let people undergoing excruciating pain at the end of their lives undergo a process of voluntary assisted dying, in order to ease the pain of their own suffering, which in turn,...
Yet Another Supreme Court Challenge Against COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Has Failed
Days following the lifting of the Sydney lockdown, the NSW Supreme Court handed down its judgment in the case commonly known as Kassam versus Hazzard, which saw plaintiffs challenge aspects of the public health orders issued by NSW health minister...
Grassroots Opposition to the AUKUS Pact and War on China Is Mounting
“We hope to see the biggest coalition of trade unions come together to oppose this drive to war”. “We hope to see the biggest coalition of trade unions come together to oppose this drive to war, and the MUA is...
UK Offers US Assange on a Platter, as PM Washes His Hands Sealing the Australian’s Fate
The UK High Court overturned the Westminster Magistrates’ Court decision not to extradite Julian Assange to the United States last Friday, as the Biden administration continues to seek to prosecute the Australian journalist in relation to a swag of charges...
Neo-Nazis Intimidate Anti-Racist Activist at Home: An Interview With the Jumbunna Institute’s Paddy Gibson
Well respected anti-racism activist, supporter of First Nations rights and prominent trade unionist, Padraic (Paddy) Gibson had three neo-Nazi types, with shaven heads and shirts emblazoned with the Eureka flag, turn up on his front doorstep on the night of...
China is Perpetrating Genocide Against the Uyghurs, Rules Tribunal
The Uyghur Tribunal released its final judgment on Thursday into whether the People’s Republic of China “has been and is attacking with the intent of destroying a part, or parts”, of the Uyghur and other Turkic minority populations living under...
