Perrottet’s Protest Crackdown Won’t Halt 78-Year-old Scientist Climate Defender
There’s something happening here, and what it is, well, it’s exactly clear. The global climate systems are beginning to collapse before our eyes. The cause is humanity’s fossil fuel use. And yet, in a nation like Australia, the so-called leaders...
Tibetan Independence Rising: An Interview with Tibetan Youth Congress’ Sonam Tsering
Tashi Phuntsok, an 81-year-old Tibetan man self-immolated out the front of the Chinese police station located next to Kirti Monastery in the Tibetan county of Ngaba on 27 March. Also known as Taphun, Phuntsok did this in protest of China’s ongoing...
A Progressive Voice for Change: An Interview With Greens for Page Kashmir Miller
As the May 21 federal election draws closer, Australian politics is perhaps in the gravest state it has ever been. The last three years of the Morrison government has been marked by multiple crises coupled with an inability and outright...
New Surveillance Laws Will Disproportionately Target Australian Muslims
A Home Affairs national security bill that enhances the ability of foreign-focused intelligence agencies to spy on domestic targets, while reducing the need for oversight, sauntered through both federal houses on 30 March as if it wasn’t dramatically expanding the...
NSW Police Officer Found Guilty of Serious Misconduct for Humiliating Child
There must be a question on the NSW police officer application form to ensure that potential employees have a certain lack of humanity that compels them to act in an offensive and often harmful manner that in essence conveys the...
Federal Parties and Independents on How They Plan to Uphold Civil Liberties
The close to a decade that the federal Coalition has been in power has seen an ever-increasing authoritarian creep. The last three years under Morrison have seen this rise to such a level that those “quiet Australians” he posits get...
Coalition Is Undermining Our Human Rights Commission, Global Body Asserts
The Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) is an independent body representing and monitoring national human rights institutions (NHRIs), which are bodies set up within countries to promote and protect rights, especially against government encroachments. The GANHRI Sub-Committee...
The Cocaine Will Flow, Despite Police Parading Latest Seizure
Yet another image of police parading in front of a large haul of drugs appeared in the press last week. Located off the South Australian coast by the Australian Border Force on 18 March, the drugs were detected after intelligence suggested...
“Business as Usual Will Kill Us All”: An Interview With Fireproof Australia’s Danny Noonan
“I sat on the Spit Bridge that morning and I felt it like every other commuter around me. I saw people sitting in their cars with their schoolchildren trying to get to school,” NSW roads minister Natalie Ward told the...
The Death of Protest in NSW: An Interview With Greens MLC Abigail Boyd
Date published: 7 April 2022 The June 2020 Sydney Black Lives Matter protest rocked the city to its foundations, as it had a focus on NSW police brutality towards First Nations peoples, then police commissioner Mick Fuller tried to have it prohibited...
