In Solidarity With Julian: An Interview With People for Assange’s Michelle Wood
There’s an Australian citizen of ailing health currently being detained overseas, who until very recently had been held in prolonged solitary confinement. His liberty has been withdrawn by one of this nation’s closest allies and yet, our government has remained...
Coronavirus: A Convenient Distraction From the Real Issues
Authorities in China reported on Sunday that there were 2,009 new cases of coronavirus, along with 142 deaths, which marked a drop in fresh cases for the third consecutive day in a row. Meanwhile, in Australia, prime minister Scott Morrison...
Police Surveillance Policy Targets First Nations Youth
The NSW Police Force has been operating a secretive surveillance list since February 2000, which targets both youth and adult offenders - as well as individuals with no priors deemed to have the potential to commit future crimes - known...
Public Demands Cannabis Legalisation, But Government and Big Pharma Have Other Ideas
The overwhelming majority of Australian patients who use cannabis medicines and have come into contact with this country’s medicinal cannabis licensing system – which commenced on 30 October 2016 – will tell you it completely disregards their interests. The Turnbull...
Australian-Born Infants in Offshore Detention: An Interview With Biloela Advocate Angela Fredericks
The prime minister announced towards the end of last month that due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, citizens and residents returning to Australia from China would be sent to the recently reopened Christmas Island detention facility for a two...
The Rights of the Elderly Are Ignored in Australia
Australian places of detention will soon come under much greater scrutiny, as local independent oversight bodies will begin randomly inspecting these facilities, with the aim of upholding the human rights of detainees. Inspectors will operate under the provisions of the...
Kill the Religious Privilege Bill: An Interview With Satanic Australia’s James Sutekh
The implications of the prime minister’s Religious Discrimination Bill, and its accompanying legislation, are so dire that people are turning to the Devil. At three recent Community Action for Rainbow Rights (CARR) rallies held against what’s been dubbed the Bigot’s...
“First Nations People Are Bearing the Brunt”: An Interview With Water Activist Bruce Shillingsworth
Unprecedented is a word that many have applied to the weather conditions this continent has faced over the 2019-20 summer season. It’s been used to refer to the high temperatures. It’s described the scope of the water crisis along the...
NSW Government Shuts Down Police Watchdog’s Strip Search Inquiry
When the Berejiklian government announced in late December that it would not be renewing the contract of the head of the state’s sole police watchdog, there was widespread speculation it was to do with his strip search inquiry. As the...
Calls for a Parliamentary Inquiry Into TJ Hickey’s Death, Sixteen Years On
This Friday, 14 February 2020, marks sixteen years since Thomas (TJ) Hickey was thrown from his push bike and impaled upon on a fence in inner city Sydney, whilst being chased by two NSW police paddy wagons: Redfern 16 and...
