Australia Opposes the Death Penalty, Which is Why We Fund Those Facing It
China’s Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court announced in writing last June that Australian citizen Karm Gilespie has been sentenced to death by firing squad over allegedly trying to smuggle 7.5 kilograms of methamphetamine out of the country on New Year’s Eve...
The Australian Government “Has to Get Involved”: Greg Barns SC on the Plight of Assange
Last week marked the close of evidence in the current proceedings involving Julian Assange. The United States is attempting to have the Australian journalist and publisher extradited from the UK, under the UK-US Extradition Treaty. This is somewhat suspect as...
The People Win: Dutton Won’t Be Removing Refugee Detainees’ Phones
A significant victory was claimed by the Australian campaign to uphold the rights of wrongly detained refugees in this country, when Senator Jacqui Lambie announced last Friday that she’ll be voting against depriving immigration detainees of contact with the outside...
Veronica Baxter’s Death in Custody: A Trans Woman Neglected in a Male Prison
NSW police raided the Redfern apartment of Veronica Baxter on 10 March 2009, arresting and charging her with several counts of drug supply. The 34-year-old First Nations transgender woman then appeared in Central Local Court, where she was refused bail...
NSW LGBTIQ Laws Have Come a Long Way, But More Reforms Are Needed
On the evening of 2 March 1996, the news that John Howard had been elected prime minister swept across the crowds celebrating at the 19th Annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade, which lead to a haze of disappointment...
SA Police Advertise That Drug Driving Laws Target the Unimpaired
Random breath testing (RBT) for alcohol was introduced across Australian jurisdictions in the 70s and 80s. These laws succeeded in not only significantly reducing road fatalities, but, as a 2017 paper put it, they turned “a common practice” into a...
The Unholy Alliance Between One Nation’s Mark Latham and the Berejiklian Coalition
Playing the race card was how John Howard politicked, David Marr recalled in a 2017 essay. And as Howard took on the prime ministership in 1996, he didn’t seem too opposed to Pauline Hanson entering parliament at the same time,...
China Rolls Out Forced Labour Camps in Tibet: An Interview With ATC’s Gemima Harvey
Seventy one years after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) first sent in troops to begin its takeover of the free and independent nation of Tibet, Beijing is again escalating its project of decimating the culture and society of the sovereign...
“It Should Put all Australians on Notice”: Wilkie on the Unjust Assange Extradition Trial
The judge presiding over Julian Assange’s extradition case, Judge Vanessa Baraitser, indicated last week that she wouldn’t be making a decision on whether the Australian journalist and publisher will be sent to the United States, until after the November election....
The Authorities Fear the Movement to Stop Atrocities on First Nations People
NSW police permitted the Indigenous Social Justice Association (ISJA) to hold a silent march through the Sydney CBD last Saturday to mark the anniversaries of the deaths in custody of John Pat and Wayne Fella Morrison. The granting of permission...
