Out There, Settling Scores: The NSW Police Fixated Persons Investigation Unit
A successful motion was passed in state parliament on 24 November, which requires the NSW Police Force, the minister for police, and the LECC to hand over any documentation relating to the wrongful arrest of Luke Brett Moore on 25...
Sentenced to Prison Over Nonviolent Climate Action: An Interview With Activist Sergeio Herbert
Social media platforms have recently lit up with praise for climate activist Sergeio Herbert, who, after being involved in a series of nonviolent direct actions conducted by Blockade Australia, was sentenced to 12 months in prison by a NSW magistrate....
Missing and Murdered First Nations Women: Senator Dorinda Cox on the Parliamentary Inquiry
Greens Senator Dorinda Cox successfully moved a motion on 25 November to establish a government inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children. The Yamatji Noongar woman stated that there over 70 such cases nationwide...
Calls to Reform Flat-Rate Fining Regimes That Paralyse the Poor
The COVID-19 penalty infringement regime that’s prevailed nationwide since the pandemic onset has brought into stark relief the disparities involved in the practice of imposing flat-rate financial penalties across the entire population regardless of socioeconomic circumstances. Hiking COVID infringement notices...
The Long Warned of Far-Right Threat Has Descended
The rise of the far-right has been of increasing concern across western liberal democracies over recent years. The election of Donald Trump, Brexit, and the spike in the right-wing vote throughout Europe have all indicated a drift towards authoritarianism, which...
PM Ignores Calls for a Federal ICAC, While Claiming to be a Champion of Freedom
“The people of NSW know that what was done to Gladys Berejiklian was an absolute disgrace,” Scott Morrison told parliament last Thursday. “The Australian people know that the former premier of NSW was done over by a bad process and...
Chomsky Agrees With Keating and Toohey on the Fallacy of the China Threat
“The worst case is the increasing provocative actions towards China,” MIT Professor Noam Chomsky told Democracy Now host Amy Goodman this week, in response to a question about the Biden administration’s foreign policy. “By now, there is constant talk about...
Morrison Moves to Enshrine the Right to Be a Religious Bigot in Law
The exposure draft of the Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 (RD Bill) was released on Tuesday. And compared to its first two iterations, it’s watered down. Folau’s clause has been dropped, and so too has the provision that permitted health practitioners...
The Climate Crisis Is an Extraordinary Emergency, XR Activist Jane Morton Argues in Court
The 2018 Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene paper first put forth the Hothouse Earth scenario, which outlines that global warming is likely leading to a “planetary threshold that could lock in a continuing rapid pathway toward much...
“Strip Searches Were Never Meant to Be Routine”: RLC’s Sam Lee on the Splendour Class Action
The protocols stipulating when police can carry out strip searches are set out in a piece of legislation commonly known as the LEPRA. Section 31 of this Act requires that when outside of a police station “the seriousness and urgency...
