Attempting a Hat-Trick of Successfully Suing Police: An Interview With ISUEPolice’s Luke Brett Moore
Prior to the onset of the pandemic and its accompanying COVID policing, issues around the use of strip searches by the NSW Police Force were front and centre, whether that was for their ever-increasing application, or the common breaching of...
Release Nonviolent Inmates Before the Prison COVID Outbreak Explodes
“What happens in prison will ultimately spill out into the community,” said NSW Greens MLC David Shoebridge, as he was referring to the fast-growing COVID-19 outbreak in the state prison system, which sees close to 1 percent of inmates infected....
Morrison-Berejiklian COVID Plan Equals Mass Death, Says Lockdown to Zero’s Josh Lees
Almost by sleight of hand, the COVID agenda of Liberal Party leaders changed last week. For the initial two months of the lockdown, Berejiklian reiterated that the most important figure being announced during the 11 am daily pandemic press conference...
Public Health Order Offences in New South Wales
According to a NSW police spokesperson, last week, Anthony Karam was “public health enemy number one”. After having been told by state health officials that he had contracted COVID-19 on 14 August, instead of self-isolating as ordered, the 27-year-old western...
“Never the Solution”: Emma Hurst on Council Euthanising Dogs Over COVID Concerns
Bourke Shire Council’s decision to kill a group of impounded dogs due to COVID-19 concerns grabbed global headlines. Occurring a fortnight ago, the sixteen dogs appear to have been put down via the use of barbiturates, despite initial reports citing...
NSW Prisons Lockdown as Avoidable COVID Crisis Unfolds
The warnings about the threat COVID-19 poses to prison settings have been sustained over the last 18 months. And despite the current Delta variant having a heightened ability to spread and harm, NSW authorities have all but ignored correctional facilities...
Deepening Lockdown Divisions, Pending COVID Deaths and the Pandemic Election
“If not at 70 percent and 80 percent, then when?” Scott Morrison rhetorically asked Australians at a press conference on Monday. The PM was referring to the percentage of the adult population to be fully vaxxed that will warrant those...
Kumanjayi Walker Murder Trial Stayed as High Court Considers “Good Faith” Defence
NT police constable Zachary Rolfe entered the family home of Kumanjayi Walker in Yuendumu on 9 November 2019, in an attempt to arrest the 19-year-old Warlpiri man over having breached the conditions of a suspended sentence. Despite the local police...
As They Go Before a Sympathetic Judiciary, Climate Rebels Push for Prison Time
The position of Extinction Rebellion has been clear since the global environmental movement hit the international stage, when it occupied large sections of London in April 2019. XR advocates taking nonviolent civil disobedience - the breaking of the law -...
Unfolding Catastrophe: Journalist John Stapleton on the Government’s COVID Response
Tensions are high in the Sydney region as the population looks towards its tenth week in lockdown, without any clear understanding of when it will be coming out of the home confinement it’s enduring as cases of COVID-19 continue to...
