Canadian Activists Hand Out Free Drugs to Highlight Overdose Crisis
Drug User Liberation Front members appeared at an intersection in the Canadian city of Vancouver on 24 June and handed out free clean cocaine and opiates to highlight the issue of rising overdoses during the COVID-19 pandemic, as a result...
NSW Police Detectives Accused of Illegally Manufacturing Prohibited Drugs
Detectives from the NSW Drug Squad were raided early last week, according to News Corp. This was in relation to allegations that members of the squad had formed their own drug syndicate, which was manufacturing illicit substances to use to...
It’s High Time: An Interview With Legalise Cannabis Queensland’s Deb Lynch
The Turnbull government passed legislation in February 2016 that allowed for the establishment of a legal supply chain of cannabis medicines. This showed a willingness amongst the highest levels of authority in this country to publicly acknowledge that cannabis is...
When It Comes to Punishing Refugees, Dutton Is the New Morrison
After refusing to make a decision on an Iranian asylum seeker’s visa application for the past 20 months, home affairs minister Peter Dutton decided to reject the claim last Friday morning. The foreign national had been waiting for a final...
Justice for Wayne Fella Morrison: An Interview with Caroline Andersen
Descending from Wiradjuri, Caroline Andersen has resided on Kaurna land, Adelaide, for most of her life. And on 23 September 2016, she was waiting for her son Wayne “Fella” Morrison to appear at an Adelaide court. The 29-year-old had been...
Melbourne’s Public Housing Hard Lockdown: An Interview With Victorian Socialists’ Kath Larkin
Around 500 Victoria police officers were deployed to nine public housing towers in North Melbourne and Flemington on Saturday to enforce a “hard lockdown”, which means 3,000-odd residents are now confined to their flats for at least five days –...
Reignited Calls for a Dubbo Rehabilitation Centre, Reflect a Wider Regional Issue
Dubbo Country Labor Deputy Mayor Stephen Lawrence has reinvigorated calls for the establishment of a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre in the central western NSW town he represents, signalling an issue that’s symptomatic of many regional and rural areas in...
Coalition Continues Assault on Universities
Prime minister Scott Morrison and his Canberra cronies have taken the moment afforded by the COVID crisis to continue the Coalition’s long-term assault on universities, especially those departments that are producing academics that don’t toe the Liberal Party line. In...
Beijing Imposes Draconian Laws to Stamp Out Dissent in Hong Kong
At 11 pm on 30 June, Beijing revealed its secretly-drafted National Security Law to the citizenry of Hong Kong, the city where the new legislation applies. The suite of anti-sedition laws took effect at that same time, and they’re already...
“Reclaiming and Changing Laws”: An Interview With Gumbaynggirr Conservation Group’s Sandy Greenwood
The anti-logging campaign the Gumbaynggirr Conservation Group has recently launched in northern NSW is doing exceedingly well. And the word is that the model it’s using to gain all the traction may soon be mirrored across the continent. Back in...
