World War Three, Anyone? Dutton, Beijing and the Ukraine Flashpoint
Right now, more than half of Russia’s armed forces are amassed along its border with Ukraine. The subject of weeks of speculation, Russian president Vladmir Putin denies he’s planning on invading the small country. However, western governments aren’t buying this assertion....
Australia’s Mounting Mass Surveillance Regime Must Be Reined In
“A creeping surveillance state”, “the world’s most secretive democracy”, “civil liberties in peril”: these types of phrases are increasingly being used to describe our nation in US headlines. The examples listed have all appeared whilst the Coalition government has been in power,...
Officer Allegedly Shot Restrained Warlpiri Teen Twice, Hears Historic Custody Murder Trial
After NT police constable Adam Eberl had restrained Warlpiri teen Kumanjayi Walker upon a mattress on the floor of his grandmother’s home in the remote Aboriginal town of Yuendumu, constable Zachary Rolfe allegedly walked across the room and shot him...
Liberties Council Maintains Ending Indefinite Detention Is a Moral and Legal Obligation
The Novak Djokovic fiasco exposed the Australian government’s practice of detaining “noncitizens” indefinitely to the globe. The sports star was placed in a hotel used as an immigration prison, where 25 of the 32 men inside are processed refugees, who’ve...
Sexual Violence Supports Need Strengthening, Say’s Full Stop Australia’s Hayley Foster
The Australian Bureau of Statistics released data last week outlining that police agencies had recorded 53,570 sexual assault offenders over the ten years ending in June 2020, which included a 13 percent increase in the number of male offenders. This was...
An Australian Criminal Cases Review Commission: An Interview With Former High Court Justice Michael Kirby
Michael Kirby has recently completed a chapter for a Canadian legal publication, in which the esteemed former High Court Justice outlines the need for more thorough safeguards against unjust convictions in this country. Within the chapter Miscarriages of Justice in...
Morrison’s “Kafkaesque” Deportation System Begs a Federal Bill of Rights
“The Migration Act has become a fest of discrimination,” says Social Justice Independent Gerry Georgatos. This is especially so, when considering the series of amendments to the legislation that current prime minister Scott Morrison oversaw the passing of in late 2014....
Protest the Religious Discrimination Bill Before It’s Too Late, Says CARR’s April
Morrison’s term in office has done a lot of harm to this country. However, possibly the greatest setback the current government poses to the nation is yet to come, with its potential to see the Religious Discrimination Act 2021 (RD Bill)...
The Political Climate Being Conjured by Morrison Is Hardly the Way Forward
Earlier this week, it came to light that Brisbane’s Citipointe Christian College had sent out an updated enrolment contract to parents specifying that the religious school reserved the right to expel their children on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity....
Amnesty Declares Israel an Apartheid State
The understanding that Israel is operating as an apartheid state, whereby Palestinian citizens are systematically discriminated against and oppressed has been growing. But there still exists a fierce resistance to asserting this on mainstream media platforms. This is likely to...
