Morrison and the Prosperity Gospel: License to Torture Refugees and Damn the Poor
During his 2008 maiden speech in parliament, our PM Scott Morrison repeatedly referenced his Christian faith, even going as far as to invoke Jeremiah chapter 9:24: “I am the Lord who exercises loving-kindness, justice and righteousness on Earth for I...
The Increasing Militarisation of the NSW Police Force
Most of us have noticed it, the ever-increasing beefing up of NSW police. There’s the fortified appearance, the enhanced weaponry and the broadening of powers to the point that those on the beat look more like members of an occupying...
Identify and Disrupt: Dutton to Further Extend Surveillance State Reach
Home affairs minister Peter Dutton and department secretary Mike Pezzullo have again been tinkering away at the legislative framework governing the nation’s internal security apparatus to produce yet more legislation containing laws designed to further empower police and intelligence. Introduced...
Just Another Day in the Colony: State Violence Towards First Nations Continues
Just released by the ABC, March 2018 CCTV footage showing NT police assaulting and abusing young First Nations boys in the Alice Springs lockup is not only sickening, but it’s yet more proof that while many consider the colonial project...
So, This Is Xmas: Refugee Rights Rally at the PM’s Horizon Church
The Biloela family - Nades, Priya, and their daughters: 5-year-old Kopika and 3-year-old Tharunicaa - are about to spend their third Christmas locked up in immigration detention. And this is despite them having lived amongst the community in central Queensland...
No Longer a Taboo: Psychologist Carly Schrever on Judicial Stress and Wellbeing
In a 1995 speech delivered in Hawaii, former High Court of Australia Justice Michael Kirby set out that “the general deference formerly paid to judges has been eroded” and “attacks on judges have now become commonplace”. He added that much...
War Powers Should Rest With Parliament: An Interview With Senator Jordon Steele-John
Then PM Tony Abbott withdrew Australia’s last combat troops from Afghanistan in late 2013. It marked the end of our nation’s longest engagement in a specific conflict. However, Australian troops were still deployed to the country in a training capacity...
NSW Police Officer Criticises the Use of Excessive Force Against Protesters
In a widely-distributed open letter to NSW police commissioner Mick Fuller, a senior member of the NSW Police Force Public Order and Riot Squad has drawn attention to a situation that’s seen “excessive force” being deployed by state police with...
No More Drug War Demands Sydney, as Berejiklian Drags Her Feet on Solutions
The 17th of June next year marks the 50th anniversary of the day on which US president Richard Nixon declared the war on drugs. Marking an intensification of then half-a-century-old global drug prohibition, this gung-ho approach to a health issue...
Boycott Global Brands With Forced Uyghur Labour in Their Supply Chains
Since April 2017, the Chinese government has been operating a network of extrajudicial political re-education camps involving the incarceration of at least one million Uyghur people in the far western province of Xinjiang. Reports of the mass detention of Uyghurs,...
