With No Plan, Morrison Implies Committing to Net Zero Is Un-Australian
Prime minister Scott Morrison appeared before a press conference in New York City on Wednesday, with foreign affairs minister Payne and defence minister Dutton in tow. This was following having met with the Biden administration to discuss the AUKUS pact...
Extreme COVID Law Enforcement Has Helped Fuel the Anti-Lockdown Movement
The recent use of non-lethal weapons on anti-lockdown demonstrators in Melbourne are the most extreme examples of the approach Australian government and its law enforcement agencies have taken to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. The onset of what’s now referred to as...
Disparities in Berejiklian’s COVID Response Are Leaving Vulnerable Communities Unprotected
As the state of NSW focuses upon being released from the shackles of lockdown - with those sacred 70 and 80 percent adult vaccination rates as a means of doing so - significant parts of the community are being left...
“We Should Be Outraged”: AWPR’s Dr Alison Broinowski on the AUKUS Pact
“G’day,” said the prime minister as he addressed the nation on 16 September. Scott Morrison then went on to reveal that he’s been busy committing us to a tripartite defence alliance - known as AUKUS - which includes the US...
Ditch Latham’s Anti-Trans Laws: An Interview With Equality’s Ghassan Kassisieh
Mark Latham seems to be having a very public and paranoid personal crisis about “the family unit”, as the leader of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party in NSW is concerned that “family life is under challenge” and the chief culprits...
The Far-Right Has Infiltrated the Anti-Lockdown Movement
Hundreds of protesters assembled at the Melbourne CBD headquarters of the CFMEU (the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union) on Tuesday morning, following violent clashes between protesters and riot police at the same location the day prior. Those gathered...
Religious Discrimination Laws to be Passed in New South Wales
NSW attorney general Mark Speakman announced earlier this month that the Berejiklian government will be introducing legislation to amend the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW), so that religion will be an attribute protected against discriminatory behaviour. “NSW is a proudly multicultural...
The AUKUS Pact: Morrison Secretly Binds the Nation to a US War on China
The autocratic Morrison government dropped a bombshell on the Australian public on Thursday, as it unveiled that the nation is dramatically stepping up its war footing against China in alliance with the UK and the US. And we’re going to...
“Facing Another Genocide”: Government COVID Neglect of First Nations
The federal and state governments of settler colonial Australia have to some extent agreed to open up from extended periods of pandemic lockdowns and border closures, when 70 and 80 percent adult COVID-19 vaccine rates have been met. With this...
Canberra Abandons West Papua at Jakarta War Talks: An Interview With AWPA’s Joe Collins
Foreign affairs minister Marise Payne and defence minister Peter Dutton set off last week on a “let’s get ready for war with China” diplomatic tour, with the first stop being Jakarta, where they met with their local Indonesian counterparts. The...
