Reigniting the Aboriginal Watch Committees: An Interview With Aunty Susie Dixon
The 15 April this year marked the thirtieth anniversary of the handing down of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody final report. The document was thorough, with most agreeing that the 339 recommendations contained within it provide a...
Taking Political Action in a Time of Mounting Crises
The last few years have been tumultuous to say the least. For Australians, the 2019-20 summer of bushfires brought the understanding that significant change is upon us, while the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has further shattered our expectations that...
Israeli Police Are Arresting Palestinians by the Masses
On the evening of 23 May, the third day of the Gaza ceasefire, Israel police announced that it was continuing with Operation Law and Order, an initiative involving the mass arrest of Palestinian civilian protesters that it had commenced two...
Retrial Ordered Due to Judge’s Failure to Give Fair and Proper Directions to Jury
According to the Crown, David Melia pulled into a service station in the Sydney southwestern suburb of Ruse to buy tobacco on the night of 26 June 2018. After being approached by Frank McGuiness, Melia agreed to drive the stranger...
Federal Government Moves to Silence Protest By Cracking Down on Charities
In an attempt to silence its civil society critics, the Morrison government is continuing the Coalition’s half-decade-long assault on charities and not-for-profits by attempting to make them liable for any involvement in protests that result in minor offences, or for...
Questionable Jurisdiction: Academic Amanda Porter on Policing First Nations
Under the settler colonial state of Australia, the rate of incarceration of First Nations peoples has seen them become the most incarcerated people on the planet. The figures are stark. The 12,344 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people locked up...
As the Cry Against War With China Rises, the Uyghur Crisis Should Not Be Downplayed
The political rhetoric of conservative politicians in Washington and Canberra has been marching us towards war with China for a number of years. Indeed, renowned Australian journalist John Pilger warned of this rising threat of American Empire in his 2017...
Rallying Against COVID Passports: An Interview With No Health Passport’s Ben Lay
The European Parliament voted last week to call on the EU to support the “Indian and South African World Trade Organization (WHO) initiative for a temporary waiver on intellectual property (IP) rights for COVID-19 vaccine”, so that nations of the...
A Warning Against Another Morrison Government: An Interview With Bruce Haigh
Protesters gathered at Sydney Town Hall on 16 May to mark 12 years since the Sri Lankan government perpetrated the 2009 Mullivaikkal massacre, which took the lives of an estimated 70,000 unarmed Tamil civilians. A decades-long conflict between the majority...
The Bombing of Gaza Has Ended for Now, But the Oppression of Palestinians Continues
The eleven day bombardment of the Gaza Strip came to an end early on 21 May, following an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire. The attack on the Palestinian population of Gaza left 248 dead, over a quarter of whom were children. Thousands of...
