Crime Lords Aren’t the Only Targets as Governments Profiteer from Asset Seizures
Proceeds of crime and unexplained wealth laws allow government to confiscate what’s deemed property used in or garnered from illegal activities, as well as finances regarded as sourced unlawfully, and, at times, these measures can be applied without any accompanying...
The ABF Is Back to Seizing and Searching Citizens’ Phones at Airports
With the reopening of international borders, the Australian Border Force is back to its old tricks in relation to seizing phones and laptops at airports from seemingly random people exiting and entering the country, demanding passwords, and taking the electronic...
“Quiet Australians” Are Realising Morrison Doesn’t Care About Them
Quiet Australians, as Scott Morrison likes to term them, are currently waking up to the fact that he doesn’t really care. The current prime minister’s form in the top job has consisted of seeking to avoid issues, blaming others for...
QAnon: What Does the Alt-Right Conspiracy Theory Actually Believe?
Besides the throngs of flag-flying Trump supporters storming its entrances, the key images that circulated following the deadly assault on the US Capitol Building on 6 January last year, was the image of the “QAnon Shaman” Jacob Chansley. The central focus...
Australian Billionaires Clean Up Under COVID: The Cost “Human Lives”
Australia’s 47 billionaires have found the COVID-19 pandemic to be a windfall, Oxfam Australia announced on Monday. Indeed, as many regular people struggled to make ends meet, the extremely rich doubled their collective wealth, to see it grow “to $255 billion...
“A Highly Politicised Use of Police”: Shoebridge on COVID Policing, Quotas and Drug Dogs
The NSW Police Force has dropped its controversial policy of providing each area command across the state with a set of personal search and move-on order targets that officers were expected to meet over a financial year. The quotas, or...
March This Invasion Day: NSWALRA’s Clayton Simpson-Pitt on the Sydney Rally
This 26th of January marks 234 years since the British ships arrived at Kamay-Botany Bay to commence a colonial project that involved genocide upon and the dispossession of the hundreds of First Nations that exist right across the continent now...
Morrison Created the Immigration Minister’s “God-Like Powers” When He Held Office
The deportation of the world’s number one tennis player, Novak Djokovic, on the spurious ground that he had the potential to provoke antivaxx sentiment, rather than any stated mission to do so, was political theatre par excellence, as the PM,...
Religious Schools Retain Right to Sack LGBTQ Teachers and Expel Students, For Now
The Attorney General Department’s submission to two parliamentary reviews of the Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 (the RD Bill) confirms that the legislation does not have any effect upon religious exemptions currently contained in federal law. Section 38 of the Sex Discrimination Act...
The Coalition Attacks the Public Health by Cover of COVID Authoritarianism
When the NSW premier wants to remove COVID measures designed to preserve the public health, such as masks requirements, it’s all about “personal responsibility”. But, when it comes to reporting results from non-existent rapid antigen tests, suddenly Dominic Perrottet doesn’t...
