Australians Demand a Real Political Alternative
Preselections for the next federal election are underway. And as the Herald has reported, despite PM Scott Morrison suggesting the nation won’t be voting until 2022, Liberal Party officials have been telling their electorates to get ready for a potential...
COVID-19 and the Global Shift Towards Authoritarian Governance
Despite recurring lockdowns globally, COVID-19 continues to plague the planet. The pandemic toll on 29 January 2021 stands at 101 million cases worldwide, 56 million recoveries, and 2.19 million deaths as a result of the virus. On 31 December 2019,...
Camera Phones Are the “Single Best” Tool for Police Accountability
A few weeks back, the brutality involved in the western Sydney arrest of David Ridgeway on 29 December 2020 was being called out, and questions were raised as to why the Aboriginal man is now being remanded for assaulting police,...
The Invasion Day Rally Was About Much More Than Changing the Date
“Australia was founded on terra nullius. Terra nullius means that this country was uninhabited. Our people were declassified. Our humanity refused,” said FISTT spokesperson Lynda-June Coe, as she addressed the demonstrators gathered on Gadigal land at Djarrbarrgalli-the Sydney Domain. “We...
The Threat of Climate-Caused Societal Collapse: An Interview With ANU Professor Will Steffen
Once confined to scientists, environmental activists and those brave enough to voice opinions countering the socially acceptable, concerns over the climate crisis have slipped into the mainstream, so that the majority now readily admit that humans are on a very...
“Who Celebrates Genocide?”: An Interview With FISTT’s Gwenda Stanley
Around 10,000 protesters gathered on Gadigal land at Djarrbarrgalli-Sydney Domain on 26 January, making clear that celebrating the nation on a day that marks the dispossession of and genocide against the First Nations peoples of this continent is not only...
Free Them All: The Government Is Finally Releasing the Medevac Detainees
The former offshore asylum-seeking detainees that were brought to this country almost two years ago under the now revoked Medevac laws - and have since been locked up in hotels and immigration facilities - are slowly being released into the...
Berejiklian Illegally Shredded Documents Detailing Pork Barrelling, Report Finds
Berejiklian’s late 2020 pork barrelling-record shredding scandal continues to develop from strength to strength, as, on Friday, the NSW State Archives and Records (SARA) released its report into the Alleged Non-Compliant Disposal of Records Relating to the Stronger Communities Fund....
Australian Extremists Aren’t That Different to Capitol Hill Rioters
As the scope of the storming of Washington’s Capitol Building became clearer with further footage being released, along with a broadening of reports, many Australians remarked that there was no way that sort of scene could transpire in this country....
The PM Has Overseen the Mass Deportation of Kiwis
“Entry and stay in Australia by noncitizens is a privilege, not a right, and the Australian community expects that the Australian government can and should refuse entry to noncitizens, or cancel their visas, if they do not abide by Australian...
