Let’s “Focus on Relieving Tensions”, Says Chomsky. With a Global War, “We’re Done”
Esteemed political commentator MIT Professor Noam Chomsky has long warned that the two greatest existential threats the globe is facing are climate change and nuclear war. Although for many, the latter used to seem like a throwback fear to the 1980s....
Point-Blank First Nations Custodial Shooting: Killer Cop Walks Free
One man holds down another who’s struggling, but the scissors the captive had struck the first man’s mate in the shoulder with no longer pose a threat. The guy who was hit with the household implement walks across the room...
The Morrison Government’s Targeted Persecution of Transgender People
Morrison’s never attempted to conceal his prejudice against LGBTIQ people. He walked out during the marriage equality vote, he’s said inclusive teen sex education makes his “skin curl”, and just after he swiped the top job, he termed school counsellors who...
Rain Bombs, Megafires, Drought: Morrison Guarantees Worst Yet to Come
The nation’s largest city, Sydney, became the frontline of the climate crisis for the first time ever in recent days, as floods that have been wiping out people’s lives and entire towns right along the eastern seaboard, suddenly gushed through...
Prioritising Social Wealth Over Corporate: An Interview With the NSW Socialist Alliance Candidates
The government can’t control the rain. But what it can do - and what it has been doing - is contribute to its severity. Indeed, the intensity of the climate-driven floods that have just swept through the east coast can...
Palestinian Race Complaint Levelled Against Government: An Interview with Birchgrove Legal and Nasser Mashni
Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) vice president Nasser Mashni has filed a case with the Australian Human Rights Commission, which is being described as landmark as it isn’t against any individual or business, but it’s been raised against the Australian...
Government Seeks to Undermine High Court Ruling that First Nations People Cannot be Deported
The High Court ruled in 2020 that First Nations peoples cannot be deported on character grounds. It specifically found that New Zealand-born Gunggarri man Brendan Thoms and PNG-born Gamilaraay man Daniel Love couldn’t be turfed out of the country, despite minister...
High Court to Determine Constitutionality of WA’s High Risk Offenders Laws
The High Court is hearing a challenge to the constitutionality of the McGowan government’s High Risk Offenders Act 2020 (WA) (the Act), which has been labelled “inherently racist” and is “already impacting vulnerable young Aboriginal men”. The challenge set to go before the...
Home Affairs Is Turning Australia’s Foreign Spies on Our Own
Date first published: 5 March 2022 Traditionally, there’s been a distinction between foreign-focused Australian spying agencies and domestic intelligence bodies. This has served to protect locals on home soil from the range of capabilities that overseas agents have, which locally...
How Good Are Rain Bombs and Megafires? Morrison Damns Us to Climate Hell
“Rain bombs” have been devastating the eastern board of Australia over the last week. These unprecedented downpours, which have destroyed entire towns, taken numerous lives, and are about to pound some of the most heavily devastated areas once more, are obviously climate-driven....
