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...
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...
