West Papuan Provisional Government Formed, as Calls to Allow UN Access Increase
Independence leader Benny Wenda announced the formation of the Provisional Government of West Papua on 1 December 2020. The government-in-exile has declared Indonesia’s presence in its country an illegal occupation and asserted its right to rule over its own nation....
Jailing Is Failing: An Interview With the Justice Reform Initiative’s Dr Mindy Sotiri
With 12,707 adults incarcerated in the NSW prison system last September, this state continues to be the greatest incarcerator in the country. Although, NSW crime rates - especially those involving property - have been dropping since the 1970s, with this...
Mobilising Against the Invasion: An Interview With FISTT’s Tameeka Tighe
The 26 January this year marks 233 years since the first lot of British boat arrivals entered the waters of this continent and began to unleash a colonial project that involved the dispossession of First Nations people from their lands...
Free David Ridgeway: Footage Captures Police Assaulting Aboriginal Man
The camera phone is already capturing footage as the car containing the witnesses filming the 29 December incident pulls up at the corner of a small back street in the southwestern Sydney suburb of Airds, where police officers are wrestling...
Assange’s Momentary Reprieve Opens Way for More Torture and US Extradition on Appeal
For a brief moment, the globe was shocked that a UK court ruled against the extradition of Australian journalist Julian Assange to the US, where he would face an 18 count Virginia District Court indictment, carrying an accumulated maximum penalty...
Morrison’s Proposed Data Sharing Bonanza Involves Your Personal Details
Over recent years, numerous publications have declared data the most valuable resource on the planet, even trumping oil. And when the Coalition government became aware of this, it commenced rubbing its hands together in glee, as it found itself sitting...
Desperate Detainees Riot on Christmas Island Over Indefinite Detention
Two of the three compounds currently in operation at the Christmas Island immigration facility were set ablaze in the early hours of Wednesday morning, as a small number of detainees protested against their unjust and indefinite detention. The demonstrators are...
Where Has All the Legal Medicinal Cannabis Gone?
A patient who uses medicinal cannabis to treat their ailments recently remarked in a social media forum that at present it’s taking their chemist at least two weeks from payment to fill their prescription for cannabis medicine. “They wonder why...
The Indefinite Detention Achilles Heel: An Interview With Human Rights For All’s Alison Battisson
The Magna Carta is a charter of rights that was drafted by the court of King John of England in 1215. And to this day, the eight-century-old document provides the foundational legal principles of our modern Australian democracy, including that...
Improving the Lot of Transgender Inmates: An Interview With NSWCAPP’s Keith Quayle
Part 3.8 of the Custodial Operations Policy and Procedures of Corrective Services NSW (CSNSW) outlines how prison authorities deal with transgender and intersex inmates. It aims to achieve best practice, non-discrimination, safety and security. The policy stipulates that a transgender...
