Berejiklian Abandons NSW as the Public Health Crisis Is About to Peak
At the end of the twelfth week of the Greater Sydney lockdown - a week that ended with the highest number of daily COVID-19 cases ever seen, as well as the release of a divisive roadmap to open up the...
“Moving Too Slow”: Bruce Shillingsworth on the COVID Response in First Nations Towns
Broken Hill-based Maari Ma Aboriginal Health Corporation wrote to the federal government in March 2020 to warn about the potential for COVID-19 to wreak havoc within First Nations communities in north western NSW and the need for emergency plans to...
Constitutional Challenge Launched Against WA’s Discriminatory Indefinite Detention Laws
The McGowan government passed legislation establishing a new high risk offenders regime in the state of Western Australia in June last year. The laws enable the WA Supreme Court to order inmates who’ve been convicted of a serious crime to...
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....
