Australian Government Establishes “Enduring Form” of Offshore Detention on Nauru
Home affairs minister Karen Andrews and Nauruan president Lionel Rouwen Aingimea released a joint statement last Friday, outlining that Australia and the South Pacific island nation have signed a memorandum of understanding “to establish an enduring regional processing capability in...
The Quad, AUKUS, and Australia as the US Deputy Patrolling the Indo-Pacific
Exercising the powers to go to war - and all the regalia that comes with it - is something heads of state dream of. And that being the case, our head of state, prime minister Scott Morrison, must be in...
With No Plan, Morrison Implies Committing to Net Zero Is Un-Australian
Prime minister Scott Morrison appeared before a press conference in New York City on Wednesday, with foreign affairs minister Payne and defence minister Dutton in tow. This was following having met with the Biden administration to discuss the AUKUS pact...
Extreme COVID Law Enforcement Has Helped Fuel the Anti-Lockdown Movement
The recent use of non-lethal weapons on anti-lockdown demonstrators in Melbourne are the most extreme examples of the approach Australian government and its law enforcement agencies have taken to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. The onset of what’s now referred to as...
Disparities in Berejiklian’s COVID Response Are Leaving Vulnerable Communities Unprotected
As the state of NSW focuses upon being released from the shackles of lockdown - with those sacred 70 and 80 percent adult vaccination rates as a means of doing so - significant parts of the community are being left...
“We Should Be Outraged”: AWPR’s Dr Alison Broinowski on the AUKUS Pact
“G’day,” said the prime minister as he addressed the nation on 16 September. Scott Morrison then went on to reveal that he’s been busy committing us to a tripartite defence alliance - known as AUKUS - which includes the US...
Ditch Latham’s Anti-Trans Laws: An Interview With Equality’s Ghassan Kassisieh
Mark Latham seems to be having a very public and paranoid personal crisis about “the family unit”, as the leader of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party in NSW is concerned that “family life is under challenge” and the chief culprits...
The Far-Right Has Infiltrated the Anti-Lockdown Movement
Hundreds of protesters assembled at the Melbourne CBD headquarters of the CFMEU (the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union) on Tuesday morning, following violent clashes between protesters and riot police at the same location the day prior. Those gathered...
Religious Discrimination Laws to be Passed in New South Wales
NSW attorney general Mark Speakman announced earlier this month that the Berejiklian government will be introducing legislation to amend the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW), so that religion will be an attribute protected against discriminatory behaviour. “NSW is a proudly multicultural...
The AUKUS Pact: Morrison Secretly Binds the Nation to a US War on China
First published on 17 September 2021 The autocratic Morrison government dropped a bombshell on the Australian public on Thursday, as it unveiled that the nation is dramatically stepping up its war footing against China in alliance with the UK and...
