NSW Police Intimidate Student Lunch Meeting: An Interview With Democracy Is Essential’s Chloe Rafferty
Sydney University students Chloe Rafferty and Holly Hayne were making their way over to a lunchtime student organising meeting last Friday that was about to be held at a campus park area, when three NSW police general duty officers approached...
Escalation in Policing Is a Sign of What’s to Come in a Time of Austerity
Friday 25 September 2020 saw the Morrison government begin cutting back JobSeeker unemployment benefits. The increased rate provided to the escalating numbers of unemployed during the pandemic period is being reduced, as treasurer Josh Frydenberg attempts to starve people back...
The Nation Will Pay for Morrison’s Attack on Universities
By cover of COVID, the Morrison government has been carrying out a sustained attack against Australian public universities, which has subsequently spurred on management at these institutions to commence its own series of cuts to higher education. The Coalition denied...
Major NSW Parties Vote Down Law Against Sexual Predators in the Police Force
Released in June last year, The Broderick report found that women are currently underrepresented in leadership roles within the NSW Police Force, and high levels of sexism and sexual harassment within the organisation are hindering women being promoted to senior...
Sydney Uni Students Beat the Ban on Protests
After NSW police closed down three recent COVID safe Sydney University demonstrations, students and staff held another rally against staff cuts and fee hikes on 23 September 2020, in which they successfully overrode the unofficial protest ban to the point...
Protect Trans Kids, Kill Latham’s Bills: An Interview With CARR’s April
Leader of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party in NSW Mark Latham seems to have issues with sexuality. And the 59-year-old cis-gendered heterosexual male member of the NSW Legislative Council seems to have a particular hang up about transgender and gender...
“A Blatant Attempt to Repress Protests”: An Interview With Sydney Uni Arrestee Adam Adelpour
The NSW Liberals and ailing Nationals government announced on 17 September that in a fortnight’s time it would be allowing crowds of up to 40,000 people attend stadium events, as the owners of these venues have provided detailed COVID Safe...
Time to Repeal the Crime of Offensive Language
Members of the group these days known as Community Action for Rainbow Rights (CARR) staged a rally at Sydney’s Belmore Park in September 2015. The purpose of the action was to counter an anti-same sex marriage protest being held by...
Journalists Can’t Be Forced to Reveal Their Sources, or Can They?
Press Freedoms and whistleblower protections have rightly been of concern of late. In June last year, the AFP conducted press raids on ABC and News Corp journalists. While Bernard Collaery and David McBride are both facing prosecution in closed courts...
NSW Police Bust Up Legal Campus Protests: An Interview With Student Activist Kelton Muir
For those who haven’t been following, NSW police has been enforcing an unofficial ban on protests since late July. Under the COVID-19 public health order on gatherings, outdoor meetings or assemblies “for a common purpose” of more than 20 people...
