Challenge Everything: An Interview With Extinction Rebellion’s Blue Sandford
The Extinction Rebellion (XR) has again mobilised across London. This time ten days of action culminated on Thursday with 13 topless women locking on outside Westminster Palace, drawing attention to the dangers faced if temperatures rise by 4°C above pre-industrial...
Australia Looks the Other Way, as Assange Is Hung Out to Dry
Right now, the substantial extradition hearings involving the US government request that the UK hand over publisher and journalist Julian Assange are underway. The Wikileaks founder has been held in British custody at London’s Belmarsh prison since April 2019. The...
Morrison and Murdoch Scrambled to Hide the Climate Cause of the Bushfires
Most Australians will remember that our supreme leader Scott Morrison disappeared for a Hawaiian holiday last summer as the nation grappled with bushfires on a scale that the government was unprepared for, despite long-term warnings coming from experts. As Greenpeace’s...
Dutton Is Turfing Vulnerable Refugees Out Onto the Street Mid-Pandemic
Dutton and his new acting henchman Alan Tudge have come to the decision that the current pandemic and downturn in the economic climate is a good time to start evicting asylum seekers and refugees out of their long-term accommodation, and...
Berejiklian Short-Sighted on Uranium: An Interview With Uranium Free NSW’s Natalie Wasley
The O’Farrell government attempted to end the state ban on uranium mining and exploration in the early years of last decade. And while it succeeded in lifting the 26 year moratorium on exploring, due to pushback, the ban on mining...
Restore the Right to Protest: An Interview With Democracy Is Essential’s Vinil Kumar
Although there’s been no major announcement, the Berejiklian government has implemented a ban on outdoor protests of more than 20 people. And NSW police has been enforcing this rather underhanded prohibition since late July. After unsuccessfully attempting to have a...
Criminologists Call for Divestment in Police and Prisons to End First Nations Injustice
The footage of George Floyd being killed by Minneapolis police on 25 May, struck a chord with the global community, as it laid bare the heightened racism in the US system, as well as that the institution of police has...
Quit the Bullshit and Tell the Truth News Corp, Demands Extinction Rebellion
“We are here as Extinction Rebellion asking and demanding that News Corp quits the bullshit and tells the truth,” said XR Sydney spokesperson Larissa Payne out the front of the News Corp offices in Surry Hills at around 8.30 am...
Charged with Drug Driving? Have a Cannabis Prescription? Speak to Former Magistrate David Heilpern
Former NSW Magistrate David Heilpern is on a mission. It entails bringing about substantial reforms to the unjust roadside drug testing regime that’s currently operated by NSW police and only being bolstered by the Berejiklian government. The first change Heilpern...
“Free People Into the Community”: Debbie Kilroy on the Queensland COVID Prison Crisis
Right now, Queensland correctional facilities from Bundaberg down to the NSW border are in hard lockdown following prison officers having tested positive to COVID-19 for a second time in recent weeks. And somewhat unsurprisingly, inmates have been rioting at a...
