The COVID-19 Delta Variant Has Entered Vulnerable Immigration Facilities
According to Refugee Action Coalition spokesperson Ian Rintoul, seven Villawood Immigration Detention Centre detainees were placed in isolation over the weekend, after they’d been exposed to a guard who tested positive to COVID-19. The news emerging from inside the detention...
The Political Flouting of Pandemic Restrictions Is Anti-Democratic
In case you haven’t noticed, there are fast growing divisions within the community between those in favour of the use of pandemic border closures and lockdowns and those who oppose their imposition. Yet, the prime minister having breached these restrictions...
American Civil Liberties Union Declares that Vaccine Mandates Promote Freedom
Over recent months, there has been a clear and increasing division between sectors of the Australian population who are either pro or anti the COVID-19 vaccination. But what’s an even more divisive topic is the question around vaccine mandates: the...
Berejiklian Ignores COVID “Ticking Timebomb” in NSW Prisons
At the onset of the pandemic in March 2020, it was widely acknowledged that an outbreak in the NSW prison system would be a humanitarian disaster, as crowded, enclosed facilities with a dearth of healthcare are prime environments to become...
Ever-Expanding COVID Rules are Making Criminals Out of Law-Abiding Citizens
Just so we’re all clear, a virus is an infectious agent that only replicates itself within the cells of living organisms. A virus is too small to be seen under a microscope. And it can’t be chased down, arrested, placed...
“A Stain on Our National Record Forever”: McBride on the Withdrawal from Afghanistan
The United States withdrew its remaining troops from its two decade-long war in Afghanistan on 30 August. This came just weeks before the twenty year anniversary of the 9/11 attack in New York, which was the pretext for western allies...
Social Housing Building in Hard Lockdown: An Interview With Common Ground Resident Action Group
At 8am on 2 September 2021, residents living at Camperdown’s Common Ground social housing estate woke to find themselves in hard lockdown. So, from that moment on, they were no longer permitted to leave their units due to COVID-19 concerns....
Banksia Hill Class Action Seeks Justice for Harmed Youth Detainees
Despite having the second highest youth incarceration rate in the country, Western Australia only has one child correctional facility, which is the Banksia Hill Juvenile Detention Centre located in the south Perth suburb of Canning Vale. So, some of the...
Identify and Disrupt Laws Put Nail in the Coffin of Democracy
Dutton’s dirty work as home affairs minister continues to heighten the abilities of intelligence and law enforcement agencies, long after he took over the defence portfolio and commenced spruiking a profit-driven war with China. Passing through both houses of parliament...
Wilcannia’s First Nations COVID Crisis Continues to Escalate
The Berejiklian government has announced thirty motorhomes will arrive in the town of Wilcannia by next Monday. With the highest rate of COVID-19 transmission in the state, the north western NSW town is being sent the mobile enclosures to help...
