Classifying the Houthi Movement as a Terrorist Organisation Is a Disaster for Yemen
Although often ignored internationally, the worst humanitarian crisis unfolding on the globe right now is happening in Yemen. The ongoing war in the Middle Eastern country has left 3.65 million people internally displaced and 24 million - or 80 percent...
Is Fascism on the Rise?: A Conversation With USYD Historian Dr Marco Duranti
At the time of writing, Joe Biden was about to be inaugurated the 46th president of the United States. And tensions were on high in Washington and state capitals over concerns that supporters of outgoing head of state Donald Trump...
UN Nuclear Weapons Ban Enters Into Force: An Interview With Dr Phoebe Wynn-Pope
Following the storming of the US Capitol Building on 6 January, members of congress called for measures to be taken to prevent outgoing president Donald Trump from launching a nuclear attack during his final days in office. Not only does...
NSW Government Refuses to Require Police to Hand Over Body Camera Footage
Just prior to the pilot rollout of police body-worn video (BWV) cameras in November 2015, then NSW police commissioner Andrew Scipione remarked that the devices “will hold everyone to account for their actions, including police”. “A picture is worth a...
Morrison Government’s Refusal to Censure Trump Is Implicit Support
Heads of state around the globe condemned Trump last week, over inciting his supporters to attempt a coup at Capitol Hill. Germany’s Angela Merkel said he’d “prepared the atmosphere” for violence. While the UK’s Boris Johnson described his provocations as...
Why Are Former Long-Term Australian Residents Rioting Inside the Xmas Island Facility?
“This is no surprise what’s happened,” says Les Reilly in footage captured within Christmas Island immigration detention centre following last Saturday night’s riot. It was the second major incident to happen at the facility that week. Breaking out on the...
Michael McCormick: The Bigot You Have When the Real PM Isn’t Around
The image of a buffalo-horned and raccoon-skinned QAnon shaman, surrounded by “Make America Great Again”-capped, far-right insurrectionists, standing in the halls of the US Capitol building on 6 January stunned the globe. Raised on a constant media diet of “America...
West Papuan Provisional Government Formed, as Calls to Allow UN Access Increase
Independence leader Benny Wenda announced the formation of the Provisional Government of West Papua on 1 December 2020. The government-in-exile has declared Indonesia’s presence in its country an illegal occupation and asserted its right to rule over its own nation....
Jailing Is Failing: An Interview With the Justice Reform Initiative’s Dr Mindy Sotiri
With 12,707 adults incarcerated in the NSW prison system last September, this state continues to be the greatest incarcerator in the country. Although, NSW crime rates - especially those involving property - have been dropping since the 1970s, with this...
Mobilising Against the Invasion: An Interview With FISTT’s Tameeka Tighe
The 26 January this year marks 233 years since the first lot of British boat arrivals entered the waters of this continent and began to unleash a colonial project that involved the dispossession of First Nations people from their lands...
