As Australia Cops Out at COP26, Extinction Rebellion Targets Sydney Opera House
“The COP process has failed. Twenty-fifty is too late,” Extinction Rebellion organiser and spokesperson Larissa Payne told those gathered at the entrance to Sydney Opera House at 11 am on Monday morning. “This is climate code red for humanity.” At...
COVID Restriction Breaches Were Driven by Police Enforcement, Report Finds
The measures that were set in place by the Berejiklian government in response to the outbreak of the Delta strain of COVID-19 were extreme. Designed to prevent the mass death that was seen elsewhere across the globe, the key approach...
US and UK Continue to Torture Assange, as Morrison Complaisantly Looks On
Lawyer acting for Washington in the appeal against the decision not to extradite Julian Assange to the US James Lewis this week provided the UK High Court with a written “package of assurances” relating to the Australian journalist’s welfare if...
Police Continue to Use Consorting Laws to Target the Most Vulnerable, Watchdog Finds
If a NSW police officer officially warns a civilian over the age of 14 to stop communicating with at least two convicted criminals, and the individual continues to interact with at least two of the cited past offenders on at...
Settler Colonial Justice: Constable Acquitted of Yamatji Woman JC’s Custodial Killing
Nothing protected Yamatji woman JC from a bullet fired by one of eight police officers who had surrounded the 29-year-old on a suburban street in the WA town of Geraldton on 7 September 2019, but the full force of the...
Protesting Perrottet’s Prejudice: An Interview With CARR’s April
The coming of ultraconservative Dominic Perrottet does not bode well for the progressive and diverse community of the nation’s “premier state”. Indeed, it tends towards the reactionary 1950s vision of a lost Australia that prime minister Scott Morrison conveys. Both...
With No Bill of Rights, Kassam v Hazzard Was Bound to Fail: An Interview With Professor George Williams
NSW Supreme Court Justice Robert Beech-Jones delivered his ruling on the Kassam versus Hazzard case, which raised close to a dozen grounds contesting the validity of public health order restrictions, as well as vaccine mandates, which have recently been imposed...
Legislating to End the Forced Removals of First Nations Children in NSW
The policy of forcibly removing Indigenous children from their families is common to the settler colonial nations that were established by the British Empire, which are today known as the United States, Canada and Australia. In this country, the practice...
Morrison Is Detaining Refugees With Compromised Health Inside COVID Hotspot
As of Sunday evening, 23 of the 46 Medevac refugees currently being held long-term in the Park Hotel in the Melbourne inner city suburb of Carlton have contracted the Delta strain of the COVID-19 virus. Unlike other COVID outbreaks occurring...
Police Routinely Breached Legal Rights During COVID, Reports Confirm
To say COVID policing has been overbearing is an understatement. The reliance upon the police to enforce pandemic restrictions on public movement and assembly in such a draconian manner, only added credence to the claims that lockdowns were a means...
