Dutton Is Turfing Vulnerable Refugees Out Onto the Street Mid-Pandemic
Dutton and his new acting henchman Alan Tudge have come to the decision that the current pandemic and downturn in the economic climate is a good time to start evicting asylum seekers and refugees out of their long-term accommodation, and...
Berejiklian Short-Sighted on Uranium: An Interview With Uranium Free NSW’s Natalie Wasley
The O’Farrell government attempted to end the state ban on uranium mining and exploration in the early years of last decade. And while it succeeded in lifting the 26 year moratorium on exploring, due to pushback, the ban on mining...
Restore the Right to Protest: An Interview With Democracy Is Essential’s Vinil Kumar
Although there’s been no major announcement, the Berejiklian government has implemented a ban on outdoor protests of more than 20 people. And NSW police has been enforcing this rather underhanded prohibition since late July. After unsuccessfully attempting to have a...
Criminologists Call for Divestment in Police and Prisons to End First Nations Injustice
The footage of George Floyd being killed by Minneapolis police on 25 May, struck a chord with the global community, as it laid bare the heightened racism in the US system, as well as that the institution of police has...
Quit the Bullshit and Tell the Truth News Corp, Demands Extinction Rebellion
“We are here as Extinction Rebellion asking and demanding that News Corp quits the bullshit and tells the truth,” said XR Sydney spokesperson Larissa Payne out the front of the News Corp offices in Surry Hills at around 8.30 am...
Charged with Drug Driving? Have a Cannabis Prescription? Speak to Former Magistrate David Heilpern
Former NSW Magistrate David Heilpern is on a mission. It entails bringing about substantial reforms to the unjust roadside drug testing regime that’s currently operated by NSW police and only being bolstered by the Berejiklian government. The first change Heilpern...
“Free People Into the Community”: Debbie Kilroy on the Queensland COVID Prison Crisis
Right now, Queensland correctional facilities from Bundaberg down to the NSW border are in hard lockdown following prison officers having tested positive to COVID-19 for a second time in recent weeks. And somewhat unsurprisingly, inmates have been rioting at a...
Failure to Press Criminal Charges over Tanya Day’s Custody Death Reflects Wider Injustice for First Nations
The decision not to charge two Victoria police officers that the state coroner suggested could potentially be found criminally negligent in relation to the ultimately fatal treatment that Tanya Day received whilst being held in police custody has left a...
Challenging WA’s Solitary Confinement Regime: An Interview With Dr Hannah McGlade
On 29 July, a WA Supreme Court challenge was lodged against that state’s practice of subjecting inmates to prolonged solitary confinement, which the main UN standards on prisoner treatment considers to be torture. The challenge was on behalf of three...
Adani Sets Its Legal “Attack Dog” on Civilian Activist
Date published: 1 September 2020 Adani announced on 26 August that it’s planning to sue long-term environmental activist Ben Pennings for the alleged damages he’s caused due to his part in the ongoing campaign to prevent the Indian mining giant’s...
