Drop the Collaery Prosecution: An Interview With the Human Rights Law Centre’s Kieran Pender
Bernard Collaery was back before the courts on Wednesday, as attorney general Michaelia Cash had her lawyers arguing that she wants to introduce new “super-secret” evidence that’s so sensitive in nature that the ACT barrister wouldn’t be able to look...
Government Is Stalling on Rights Abuses in Detention: Senator Lidia Thorpe on OPCAT
Following the 2016 revelations involving the abuse and torture of children at Darwin’s Don Dale Youth Detention Centre, then attorney general George Brandis ratified the OPCAT in December 2017. This committed our nation to a UN-governed system to prevent rights...
Rich Nations Are Investing in Militarising Borders to Keep Out Climate Refugees
As the COP26 draws to a close, many climate-conscious citizens of the globe have criticised governments for turning what was seen as “the last chance saloon” to deal with the climate crisis into an international greenwashing event, where nations were...
Morrison’s Diplomacy “Reflex Is Spin”: Wong Casts PM as Global Trump-Lite
“I am simply saying we have seen in recent times, a leader who was prepared to damage alliances and partnerships – and that was Donald Trump,” Labor shadow foreign affairs minister Penny Wong told Fran Kelly on Radio National Breakfast...
Post-Lockdown Strip Searches Are Back, Including the Dreaded Squat and Cough
Sniff Off posted a 5 November warning on its Facebook page, alerting the public that police officers were strip searching Sydney Star Casino patrons at that time. The anti-drug dog campaign did so, as it works on the understanding that...
Vale Lanz Priestley: The Mayor of Martin Place
“When you come across a situation and you look and think, somebody should do something about this,” Lanz Priestley once said, “remember, you are somebody.” And anyone who knew the unofficial Mayor of Martin Place is well aware that he...
Even With the Leaked Texts, Macron Was Right, Morrison Is a Liar
At the G20 summit in Rome last weekend, an Australian reporter asked president Emmanuel Macron whether he thought prime minister Scott Morrison had lied to him in relation to pulling out of a $90 billion submarine deal. And the French...
Calls to Depopulate the NSW Prison System, as COVID Claims It First Inmate
NSW Health announced on Monday that the first COVID casualty relating to the Parklea Correctional Centre virus outbreak had occurred, as an unvaccinated man in his 60s, who had underlying health conditions, died at Concord Hospital due to an infection acquired...
Legalising Hemp Leaf Foods: An Interview With Industry Pioneer Andrew Kavasilas
These days, if you walk down the aisles of any Australian supermarket, whether it be a major outlet or a smaller local store, you’ll come across hempseed food products. And they’ll usually be found in the health food section, as...
Climate Action, Not Global Cop Out: An Interview With Workers for Climate Action’s Caitlin Doyle-Markwick
Scott Morrison just addressed the COP26 in Glasgow. And true to form, the PM blew unintelligible hot air at the crowd attending “the last chance saloon” for climate action, as he ticked the required seen-to-be-doing-something box and maintained business as...
