Morrison’s Voter Suppression Laws Will Provoke US-Style Electoral Paranoia
Over recent months, the increasingly Trumpian Morrison government has introduced a suite of laws relating to partaking and voting in federal elections that not only stink of desperation, but they appear as a solution to electoral issues imported from the...
National Security Law Permitting the Secret Trial of Witness J Is Under Scrutiny
There has been a sustained national debate about whistleblower prosecutions over the last few years, with a chief concern being the national security laws that permit the trials of Witness K, Bernard Collaery and David McBride to be shrouded in...
NSW Parliament to Consider Raising the Age of Criminal Responsibility to 14
NSW continues to lockup children as young as 10 years old. Indeed, the entire nation of Australia does. And rather than term it as imprisonment, it’s sanitised as youth justice. Over 2019-20, this state detained 105 children 13 years or...
Litigating Against Police Misconduct: An Interview With ISUEPOLICE’s Luke Brett Moore
Being approached by police with a sniffer dog as you get off the train, and then being taken behind a screen and ordered to strip naked by armed officers sounds like something that would happen living under an authoritarian regime...
Prime Time for a Federal Bill of Rights: NSWCCL’s Pauline Wright on Protecting Freedoms
Around 90 national security bills have been passed at the federal level since the 2001 twin towers attacks in New York. Draconian in their reach, these laws are said to target terrorists, however they actually encroach upon the rights and...
Animal Justice Party Tables Laws to Prevent Convenience Killings of Dogs
The extended 2021 NSW lockdown saw heightened fears sweep across the community. But the kneejerk decision of Bourke Shire Council to kill 15 dogs in its custody, as something of an attempt to prevent virus transmission, was resoundingly seen as...
Dutton Confirms Blindly Following the US into a “Devastating” War With China
Defence minister Peter Dutton continues to heighten the likelihood of warring on China with the US, as, over the weekend, he told the Australian that Beijing has been clear about taking action against Taiwan, and “it would be inconceivable” not...
The PM Champions Pork Barrelling Over Corruption Watchdog With Teeth
“It’s certainly not a model that we ever consider at a federal level,” said prime minister Scott Morrison in relation to the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption, or ICAC, just days following the resignation of Gladys Berejiklian from the position...
NSW Police Shoot and Kill Gomeroi Man Stanley Russell
Australian police have killed yet another First Nations person. Once again, there was an outstanding arrest warrant involved, and it happened as officers entered the premises where the man was staying, similar to other such killings. Gomeroi man Stanley Russell...
Israeli Pegasus Spyware Gifts Governments Extralegal Surveillance Powers
The powerful software is being used to illegally hack the mobile phones of human rights defenders. The mobile phones of six Palestinian human rights defenders operating in the Israeli-occupied West Bank were hacked using the NSO Groups all-pervasive Pegasus spyware,...
