Rolfe’s Acquittal Highlights Australia’s Well Oiled Settler Colonial Machinery
The not guilty verdict delivered by an all-non-Indigenous jury on 11 March in relation to the trial of former NT police constable Zachary Rolfe for the November 2019 killing of 19-year-old Warlpiri man Kumanjayi Walker was simultaneously shocking and yet...
Forget Closed Court Orders, Now Collaery Can’t Even See Evidence Against Him
The Coalition government’s pursuit of barrister Bernard Collaery has crept up another notch on the Orwellian scale, as, last week, ACT Supreme Court Justice David Mossop ruled that the attorney general can use “court only” evidence against him, meaning he and...
Boycott Elbit Systems: An Interview With Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Australia
A coalition of civil society organisations supporting the rights of Palestinians are calling on the Morrison government and the Andrews government to boycott their involvement with Israeli-based defence intelligence and weapons company Elbit Systems. This campaign was sparked by recent successful...
Legislating the Will of the People: David Shoebridge on the Coming Greens Senate
The catastrophic flooding experienced along the eastern seaboard, and the federal government’s now common attempt to avoid taking viable action whilst trying to shift the blame, seem like the final straw in a series of mounting multiple crises that all...
Extradition Draws Closer for Assange, as Key Appeals Avenue Refused
The UK Supreme Court last week denied an appeal filed by Julian Assange against the 10 December 2021 decision of the UK High Court to extradite the Australian journalist to the United States. The appeal application was based on the suicide...
Fixated Persons Unit Was Monitoring Friendlyjordies Long Before the Langker Arrest
The arrest of Friendlyjordies producer Kristo Langker by the NSW Police Fixated Persons Unit at the front door of his family home one Friday afternoon in mid-2021, is one of the more bizarre incidents over the last few years, which...
“Be Prepared for Ruin When Blowing the Whistle”: Independent Calls for Real Protections
Despite decades of calls for greater whistleblower protections and faux moves by Canberra to provide them, the fire at the base of the stake that those who expose institutional corruption are tied to is only growing stronger. The political prosecution...
Morrison’s Deporting Crime Issues to New Zealand, and It’s Starting to Feel It
They’re commonly known as 501ers, Australian migrant residents who get deported because they fail the character test contained in section 501 of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth). And the overwhelming majority of them are New Zealanders. Since then immigration minister Scott Morrison...
A Constant Erosion of Citizens’ Rights: An Interview With Liberty Victoria’s Michael Stanton
Rights, or our lack thereof them, have become an increasing concern over the last three years of Morrison’s governance. Most overtly we saw the extreme curtailing of freedoms with the lockdowns and restrictions used as a means to prevent COVID-19...
“The Key Decisions Are Being Made in Boardrooms”: Scott Ludlam Talks State Capture
Holding the belief that the climate is changing to the detriment of people and planet, used to be unfashionable. Indeed, NSW premier Dominic Perrottet still seems to think it is. But the shock of the 2019 climate-driven megafires brought most...
