The Offence of Aggravated Unlawful Entry on Inclosed Lands in NSW
NSW agriculture minister Adam Marshall announced in a press release on 31 January that the first two people had been charged with the offence aggravated trespass on inclosed lands since the penalties that apply to the crime in relation to...
Good People Break Bad Laws: Animal Rights Activists
Activists around the globe promote 2018’s Dominion as the quintessential animal rights documentary that exposes the cruelty underlying the modern animal agriculture industry. But, it was 2014’s Lucent that landed director Chris Delforce in hot water. For revealing the rampant...
“Built Upon Our Genocide”: An Interview With Wreck the Endeavour’s Lorna Munro
Right now, there’s a replica of Captain Cook’s ship the Endeavour docked at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney, which is set to conduct a circumnavigation of the continent beginning on 28 April - in a re-enactment of a...
Ice Inquiry Makes Recommendations, But Government Has Its Head in the Sand
In its final report, the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry into the Drug “Ice” outlines that the use of methamphetamine and other similar drugs “requires compassionate responses consistent with human rights approaches, rather than punitive responses that can compound the...
A “21st Century Holocaust”: An Interview With Uyghur Activist Talgat Abbas
According to the Torchlight Uyghur Group, when the flights out of Wuhan city - the coronavirus epicentre - were cancelled on 23 January, one set of flights was allowed to continue, and they were those bound for Urumqi, the capital...
“Julian Did Redact”: An Interview With Lawyer-Journalist Mark Davis
The line up of renowned Australian journalists on the stage at the Martin Place Amphitheatre on 24 February was impressive. Gathered for a rally, they included John Pilger, Mary Kostakidis, Quentin Dempster, Wendy Bacon, Andrew Fowler and Mark Davis. They...
Dutton Plans to Set Our International Spy Agency Upon Citizens
Home affairs minister Peter Dutton quietly announced to the ABC a fortnight ago that the Morrison government’s - often denied - push to turn the nation’s international spying agency on its own citizens is close to finalisation. The minister rolled...
Intercepting the Liberals’ Mardi Gras Float: An Interview With the Department of Homo Affairs
At this year’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade, a group of twenty activists from the Department of Homo Affairs (DOHA) located an unauthorised float - that of the Liberal Party - and moved in to turn it back. Not...
Police Prosecutors’ Duty of Disclosure in NSW Local Courts
On 28 April 2018, Harley Bradley bit the finger of Katie O’Connor to the extent that it cut to the bone. And on the advice of a community caseworker she subsequently reported the incident, which had led to the need...
NSW Still Forces Trans People to Undergo Surgery for Legal Recognition
A January 2019 ruling of the Japanese Supreme Court in the case of a 43-year-old transgender man who challenged having to undergo sterilisation in order to gain legal recognition of his gender sparked international condemnation, as it was found the...
