Surveillance State Laws That Enabled the Encryption-Busting Anom App Affect Us All
Home affairs minister Karen Andrews called Operation Ironside the “most significant operation in policing history” at an 8 June press conference, while AFP commissioner Reece Kershaw outlined that the crime sting had resulted in 224 arrests, had shut down six...
Youth Detainees Continue to Be Routinely Strip Searched in NSW
The NSW Ombudsman has just released a report into the contentious full body strip searching of three youth detainees at Frank Baxter Youth Justice Centre in November 2019 by Corrective Services NSW (CSNSW) officers, who’d been called in to deal...
No War With China: An Interview With Sydney Peace and Justice Coalition’s Peter Murphy
The pace at which war with China talk has been emerging from Canberra of late is alarming. Last year there were rumblings coming from PM Scott Morrison around sophisticated cyberattacks, but since Peter Dutton took on the role of defence...
A More Inclusive City of Sydney: An Interview With Greens Council Candidate Sylvie Ellsmore
Since the 2016 City of Sydney council elections, the political climate has changed dramatically, as multiple crises have swept through NSW, which have included the years-long drought, the 2019-20 bushfires and the COVID-19 pandemic. These crises have led to dramatic...
Dutton Puts Aussies at Risk Through His Rhetoric and Actions Towards China
The newly minted Australian defence minister has further turned up the volume on the war with China rhetoric. This time Peter Dutton’s backing a plan to rotate larger numbers of US troops through the Northern Territory, as well as for...
Extinction Rebellion Shuts Down Nation’s Largest Port, With Union Approval
A cadre of Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists braved the pelting rain on 10 June to successfully shut down the transport of liquid fuel coming out of Port Botany for over four hours. It was the coldest NSW day for 37...
Dungays Take NSW Government to the United Nations, Backed by Legal Heavyweights
Aunty Leetona Dungay has resolved to take both the Australian and the NSW governments to the United Nations to seek justice in relation to the killing of her son David Dungay Junior at the hands of Long Bay Gaol prison...
PM’s Continuing ‘War on Drugs’ Rhetoric Ignores That There’s a Better Way
During an 8 June press conference, PM Scott Morrison called on Australians to reject illicit drug use, as “it fuels organised crime in this country, as well as “human misery” here and in many “parts of the world”. The prime...
Stop-the-Boats Morrison Continues to Brutalise Sick Australian-Born Infant
Right now, 3-year-old Australian-born girl Tharnicaa Murugappan is undergoing treatment for a blood condition in a Perth hospital, because our Pentecostal PM and some of his underlings have been slowly torturing and depriving her in immigration detention for more than...
Disrupting Weapons Suppliers: An Interview With Make West Papua Safe’s Jason MacLeod
Professor Jason MacLeod and several other antiwar activists staged a peaceful demonstration on the doorstep of the Brisbane offices of transnational weapons manufacturer Thales on 31 May, to draw attention to the company supplying weapons that are used to kill...
