The Privatising Public Housing Con: An Interview With UNSW City Future’s Dr Alistair Sisson
The Explorer Street public housing estate in inner city South Eveleigh is comprised of 46 one and two storey town houses built in the early 1990s. To stand in front of it, it’s hard to see why the Berejiklian government...
AIVL’s Melanie Walker on Coming Drug Decriminalisation and Treatment Access
ACT Labor MLA Michael Pettersson has yet again set his sights on reforming the Canberra community. This time it’s in the form of just introduced legislation that would see the decriminalisation of the personal possession and use of illicit substances...
Attempted Murder of Refugee on Nauru Highlights the Failure of Government Policy
At around 11 pm on 9 February 2021, a car driven by a local ran down a Tamil refugee as he was riding a motorcycle on Nauru. The vehicle hit the back of the bike, knocking the Australian-held detainee off,...
NSW Police Officers Caught on Camera Assaulting 12-Year-Old Boy
NSW police has - yet again - been caught on camera phone footage administering rough justice. This time the incident involves undercover officers in the Sydney suburb of Parramatta meting out a bit of physical punishment on a First Nations...
The Fear of Terrorism Does Not Justify the Wholesale Removal of Citizens’ Rights
Home affairs minister Peter Dutton slid through his ASIO Bill 2020 with bipartisan approval on the final sitting day of parliament last year. The usual suspect, the fear of terrorism, was cited as justification for the passing of the 90th...
David Shoebridge Runs for Federal Parliament on Platform of Social Justice
Political parties are gearing up for the next federal election. While the Morrison government’s surprise May 2019 win at the ballot seems like only yesterday, rumour is the Coalition is about to announce a spring 2021 vote, hoping to ride...
Should Police Publicly Name Persons Who Are Suspected of Criminal Offences?
The long unsolved mid-1990s Claremont murders are indicative of a much wider crisis of often lethal, violent crimes perpetrated against women in the Australian setting. Over a 15 month period commencing in January 1996, three young women went missing whilst...
The Racialised Violence of Settler Colonialism: An Interview With Deathscapes’ Joseph Pugliese
Speaking of fake news, the nation of Australia was founded upon it. The British staked their claim over the largest island on the planet under the legal fiction of terra nullius: that there were no occupants of the land prior...
Vote to Legalise Cannabis in the WA Election: An Interview With LCWA’s Leo Treasure
The 31st of January this year marked 12 months since the ACT legalised the personal use and possession of cannabis. And to date, the sky is yet to fall in. In fact, by all accounts, nothing has changed except for...
An Australian First: Prison Officer Charged With Manslaughter Over Aboriginal Custodial Death
A 57-year-old Corrective Services NSW officer presented at Lismore police station on 5 February 2021 and was charged with manslaughter over the 15 March 2019 shooting death of Wiradjuri man Dwayne Johnstone, who was a detainee in the custody of...
