Australian Billionaires Continue to Rake It In, as Their Influence Over Politics Grows
Much of the coverage of increasingly influential billionaires since the 2025 second coming of the US Trump administration has involved a focus on the US kind. However, a recent Oxfam report reveals that just like US billionaires, those in Australia...
The Offence of Common Assault in NSW
Two women have been charged with common assault and using offensive language after they allegedly attacked a man near a bus stop on Gadigal land in the Sydney CBD. Officers attached to the Sydney City Police Area Command received a...
The Australian Defence Minister’s AI Bonanza Is All About US Sovereignty
Australian defence minister Richard Marles posted to Instagram on 2 September 2026, as he was jogging at Pier 39 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Marles was there meeting with Silicon Valley “tech companies, with frontier companies, about AI”. Yet,...
Thorpe’s Legislating an End to Strip Searching Children and Shackling Birthing Women
Senator Lidia Thorpe has two bills before parliament that seek to prohibit practises that are frankly deplorable. These comprise of shackling incarcerated or detained women during childbirth and the strip searching of children. And as these bills are undergoing the...
Leaked Footage Reveals NSW Police Intentionally Brutalised the Public at Herzog
Abolitionist collective Watch the Cops posted a clip online, which, having been anonymously supplied to it, went viral last weekend. The leaked footage involves a NSW police officer bragging about beating up a civilian, during the policing of the 9...
The NSW Police Drone Surveillance Trial Is Being Expanded Before Any Official Assessment
The Minns government confirmed in a 27 August 2026 press release that it’s continuing with the New South Wales police crime-related drone surveillance on Gomeroi Country in the NSW town of Moree for two more years, as well as looking...
“Another Site for Resistance”: Mparntwe for Falastin Activists on Their Pine Gap Blockade Prosecution
The Mparntwe for Falastin activists arrested as part of the 9 October 2025 blockade of the road into US spy base Pine Gap are about to appear in court. Their direct action aimed at calling out the Pine Gap intel...
Pill Testing Is Finally Being Made Permanent at NSW Music Festivals
The Minns government announced on Wednesday, 2 September 2026, that from October, pill testing, or drug checking, services will be available at select New South Wales music festivals on a permanent basis. And this much-welcomed decision by NSW Labor comprises...
The NSW Offence of Reckless Wounding in Company
Two New South Wales men have been charged with reckless wounding in company, following an incident involving an alleged assault on a 31-year-old man at a licensed premises in on Wiradjuri land on Yapunyah Street in the southwestern NSW town...
Police Need to Combat Racial Profiling and Ditch Race Descriptors, Ombudsman Asserts
On 11 November 2025, three Australian Capital Territory policing officers boarded a bus on Ngunnawal land bound for the Canberra suburb of Tuggeranong and hauled a 17-year-old Aboriginal boy, known as Jay, off it at gunpoint, in a case of...
