Criminal Justice Policy is Key to Addressing Overincarceration of First Nations Kids
A recently released NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) report outlines that over the five years ending in December 2019, there was a pronounced decline in the average number of First Nations youths in custody - down from...
New Government Laws Permit Indefinite Detention and Reversal of Refugee Status
In introducing the Coalition’s latest piece of migration law reform, current immigration minister Alex Hawke noted the changes clarify that the removal power in the Migration Act 1958 (the Act) doesn’t require the return of refugees to their country of...
Inmates Continue to Be Denied Medicare: An Interview With NSPTRP’s Connie Georgatos
Australian state and territory governments love to invest in building further prison capacity, but they tend to draw the line at funding adequate on-site healthcare for prisoners. This means that those being denied their liberty at order of the courts,...
Australia Is Complicit in Israel’s Atrocity Crimes: An Interview With ACIJ’s Rawan Arraf
As the violence in Palestine-Israel continues to escalate, so too does the mainstream media’s focus on the rockets Hamas is launching out of Gaza, despite their impact being dwarfed by the force of the sophisticated weaponry being unleashed upon civilians...
The International Crime of Genocide Continues to Be Perpetrated Globally
“I do want to wish Eid Mubarak to millions of Muslims across the world,” said Australian Greens Senator Dr Mehreen Faruqi, as she addressed those gathered at the Sydney Free Palestine rally on 15 May. “But I do so with...
Apartheid Israel Destroys Gaza Press Tower in Attempt to Silence Journalists
Israeli defence forces destroyed the 12 storey al-Jalaa apartment and office tower building in Gaza on Saturday afternoon. Along with five stories of offices and floors containing residential apartments, the building just happened to house the offices of the Associated...
The Number of Prison Inmates is Rising as Crimes Rates are Falling
Since the turn of the century, there’s been a dramatic surge in the number of women being incarcerated in Australia. Between 2000 and 2020, the amount of women in our nation’s prisons grew by 127 percent: up from 1,385 inmates...
“We Just Need to Be Freed”, Says Detained Medevac Refugee Hamid Reza Yousefi
As the entire nation was in lockdown this time last year, there was widespread focus on the plight of the refugees who were being confined in close proximity within Melbourne’s Mantra Hotel and Brisbane’s Kangaroo Point Central during the outbreak...
Trans Is a Gift, Not a Threat: AusPATH’s Teddy Cook on Latham’s Anti-Trans Laws
Currently, there’s a very dangerous bill under review of a NSW parliamentary committee that seeks to effectively erase the identity of trans kids within the education system, as it would ban all staff from mentioning gender fluidity at schools via...
Apartheid Israel Unleashes Terror Campaign Upon Palestinians in Gaza
Israeli forces are punishing Palestinians living in the open-air prison that is Gaza with airstrikes. Since fighting commenced on 10 May, the much smaller Hamas forces have responded with rocket fire. Sixty five Palestinians and six Israelis have been killed....
