Good People Break Bad Laws: Illicit Drugs
Not a lot of people who’ve grown up under drug prohibition consider that going back a little over a hundred years ago, the substances we commonly associate with being outlawed were for the most part legally available. The first rumblings...
Drug Alerts: Warning the Public About Toxic Batches of Illicit Drugs
According to ex-Victoria police sergeant Greg Denham when a dodgy batch of ecstasy caps - which ultimately resulted in the deaths of three people - were being distributed around Melbourne’s Chapel Street in early 2017, the police were aware of...
Australia Moves to Block an Investigation into War Crimes in Palestine
On Wednesday, Israeli president Reuven Rivlin paid a visit to Australian parliament in Canberra. And to greet him was a vigil for Palestinian human rights, which involved a number of federal parliamentarians, including Andrew Wilkie, Mehreen Faruqi and Adam Bandt....
“A Local Solution to a Local Problem”: An Interview With Uniting MSIC’s Dr Marianne Jauncey
UNSW criminology lecturer Dr George Dertadian released his findings last week from a study that utilised national coronial overdose death data, which pointed to southwestern Sydney as an ideal candidate for a second safe injecting facility. Dertadian found that between...
Offshore Political Prisoners: An Interview With Social Activist Stephen Langford
At around 9.15 am on 14th of August 2019, a couple of NSW police officers were sitting at the lights on the corner of New South Head Road and McLachlan Avenue in Darlinghurst, when they observed an individual defacing a...
Pilger on Assange at the Sydney Extradition Rally
“When I first visited Julian in Belmarsh - not long after he was dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy - I was shocked by his appearance,” John Pilger told the crowd at the rally in Sydney’s CBD on Monday. “His...
Waanyi Nation Declares Its Independence to Run its Own Economy
Yet another Aboriginal Nation has declared independence from the Commonwealth of Australia. Fed up with the raw deal that its people have been subjected to since the colonial masters arrived on country back in the 1880s, the Waanyi Nation declared...
“A Potential Discrimination Act”: An Interview With Former High Court Justice Michael Kirby
Right now, transgender people in Japan are forced to undertake gender reassignment surgery in order to change the sex on their identity documents. And while some wish to, others don’t want to undergo the procedure, which entails sterilisation. In a...
As the Climate Ails, Fossil Fuel-Addled Politicians Call for More Coal and Gas
In the wake of this summer’s wildfires, which burnt an unprecedented area of bushland and saw over a billion animals perish, the Morrison government has seen fit to appoint a new resources minister, who seems to have misread the implications...
New South Wales: The Strip Search State
Over this financial year, 2019-20, NSW police officers are in the midst of carrying out at least 3,899 personal searches in Parramatta. This is known because it’s set out in the business plan for that area command. And if you...
