UK Refuses to Extradite Assange to the US, For Now
“I find that Mr. Assange’s risk of committing suicide, if an extradition order were to be made, to be substantial,” said UK Judge Vanessa Baraitser in her 4 January-delivered final findings into the US extradition case against Australian journalist Julian...
NSW to Expand the Prison System, Yet Again
As Sisters Inside chief executive Debbie Kilroy put it to Sydney Criminal Lawyers in early 2017, building more prisons doesn’t alleviate overcrowding in the system, rather it simply means that fresh inmates are needed to fill vacant beds, with new...
Independent OPCAT Inspections Will Improve the Plight of Youth Detainees
Situated in the northern NSW town of Grafton, the Acmena Youth Justice Centre is one of six juvenile prisons being operated by Youth Justice NSW. At capacity, it holds 45 boys between the ages of 10 to 21 years. Over...
Why Are Australian Governments Constructing the Surveillance State?
Peter Dutton saw his ASIO Bill passed on the last parliamentary sitting day for 2020. The home affairs minister most likely had a rare smile upon his face whilst exiting the chamber, as the nation’s domestic spying agency had been...
Federal Government’s New IR Laws: Further Weakening Employee Protections
Despite all the horrors and restrictions of the COVD-19 pandemic period, there was a positive moment towards the beginning that saw the federal Coalition displaying concerns about how everyday Australians on the ground were going to cope with the accompanying...
War Resumes in Occupied Western Sahara: An Interview With Polisario’s Kamal Fadel
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) president and Polisario Front leader Brahim Ghali ended the 1991 ceasefire agreement between his Sahrawi independence forces and the Moroccan army, which has occupied most of Western Sahara since 1975. Ghali brought the 29-year-long truce...
Truth-Telling: Activist Stephen Langford on Facing Time Over Craft Gluing a Colonial Statue
The Black Lives Matter-Stop Black Deaths in Custody movement erupted in Sydney last June. Despite COVID lockdown restrictions only just being lifted, thousands took to the streets, as they challenged the tired and wearying official narrative around the British takeover of...
Season’s Greetings: Australia Continues its Inhumane Treatment of Refugees
When Australian Border Force officials called the former offshore refugee detainees - who’d been locked up in Melbourne’s Mantra Hotel for over a year - to a 14 December meeting, the 60-odd men were well aware that five other Medevac...
As the Climate Crisis Accelerates, Morrison Shrugs Off a Future for Short-Term Profit
Due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, the regular UN climate conference - COP26 - was postponed. But rather than simply forget about the ever-intensifying impacts of the climate crisis, the UK, France and the United Nations teamed up to run...
NSW Authorities Are Routinely Strip Searching Youth Inmates as Young as 10
Contained in a recently released NSW Inspector of Custodial Services report, revelations around Sydney’s Mary Wade Correctional Centre routinely strip searching women imprisoned within the state-run facility sparked public outrage. This was especially so as it came on the back...
