NSW Is Incarcerating First Nations People for Fishing in Their Own Waters
“They’ve been prosecuting our people down here for cultural fishing,” said Wally Stewart. “There is a law that gives us a right to fish, which is section 211 of the Native Title Act. And it’s been Commonwealth law that fisheries have...
Sydney Condemns Morrison’s Attempt to Enshrine Religious Bigotry in Law
Before a crowd of protesters gathered at Sydney’s Taylor Square on Sunday, well known drag queen Etcetera Etcetera recalled spending 13 years in “incredibly religious, conservative school systems”, where they were taught that the way that they are is wrong....
Thorpe Calls for a First Nations Legal Defence Fund to Battle Miners
The Coalition’s neoliberal approach to governing involves the passing of flimsy regulations - dressed up as palatable laws - that, in the case of mining and development, charge corporations with progressing the Australian colonising project via the further dispossession of...
As NSW Refuses to Save Teenage Lives, NZ Legalises Pill Testing Nationwide
New Zealand became the first nation to officially legalise pill testing, or drug checking services, on 1 December, as the government passed a bill enshrining the harm reduction intervention in law. The move comes just a week after a bill...
Out There, Settling Scores: The NSW Police Fixated Persons Investigation Unit
A successful motion was passed in state parliament on 24 November, which requires the NSW Police Force, the minister for police, and the LECC to hand over any documentation relating to the wrongful arrest of Luke Brett Moore on 25...
Sentenced to Prison Over Nonviolent Climate Action: An Interview With Activist Sergeio Herbert
Social media platforms have recently lit up with praise for climate activist Sergeio Herbert, who, after being involved in a series of nonviolent direct actions conducted by Blockade Australia, was sentenced to 12 months in prison by a NSW magistrate....
Missing and Murdered First Nations Women: Senator Dorinda Cox on the Parliamentary Inquiry
Greens Senator Dorinda Cox successfully moved a motion on 25 November to establish a government inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children. The Yamatji Noongar woman stated that there over 70 such cases nationwide...
Calls to Reform Flat-Rate Fining Regimes That Paralyse the Poor
The COVID-19 penalty infringement regime that’s prevailed nationwide since the pandemic onset has brought into stark relief the disparities involved in the practice of imposing flat-rate financial penalties across the entire population regardless of socioeconomic circumstances. Hiking COVID infringement notices...
The Long Warned of Far-Right Threat Has Descended
The rise of the far-right has been of increasing concern across western liberal democracies over recent years. The election of Donald Trump, Brexit, and the spike in the right-wing vote throughout Europe have all indicated a drift towards authoritarianism, which...
PM Ignores Calls for a Federal ICAC, While Claiming to be a Champion of Freedom
“The people of NSW know that what was done to Gladys Berejiklian was an absolute disgrace,” Scott Morrison told parliament last Thursday. “The Australian people know that the former premier of NSW was done over by a bad process and...
