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...
The Racism in Australia’s Response to the Coronavirus
There’s no denying the seriousness of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, which recently originated in the city of Wuhan in China. As of 6 February, there had been an estimated 24,557 confirmed cases worldwide, while it had taken the...
Time to Overhaul Unfair Criminal Confiscation Laws Nationally
Criminal confiscation laws allow government to seize wealth derived - or suspected to be obtained - from criminal activities. In place in all Australian jurisdictions, these types of laws are often said to be draconian in their application, with none...
Trump’s Israeli “Deal of the Century” Shafts Palestinians
Donald Trump released his administration’s Middle East “peace plan” - dubbed “the deal of the century” - on 28 January. And as Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu stood beside the US president, it was apparent that no Palestinian representation was there...
Federal ICAC Now: An Interview With Wake the F%cK Up Australia’s Alex Devantier
As thousands of climate protesters gathered out the front of Parliament House in Canberra this week, hovering above them was a 6-metre-high bespectacled effigy of a familiar Australian figure that’s been dubbed Bullshit Boy. As one gazes upon this image...
Tell the Truth: An Interview With the People’s Climate Assembly’s John Wurcker
The People’s Climate Assembly (PCA) is an alliance of action groups that have joined forces to stand against the continued climate denialism that the Liberal Nationals government has been propagating over the last decade. And to coincide with the first...
The Australian Constitution Does Not Protect Our Rights
The AFP raids last year brought the issue of press freedoms front and centre. The bushfires led to heated debate over the potential for a class action against the government’s climate inaction. And concerns over the right to privacy have...
“They Lie All the Time”: An Interview With the News Corp Lie-In’s Brad Pedersen
As unprecedented bushfires raged across NSW in early January, and the furore over the climate denial stance of government and its mainstream media backers was rising, a photo of Sydneysider Brad Pedersen lying down out the front of the Sydney...
What Are State of Emergency Powers In New South Wales?
As of last Friday, there were still over 50 bushfires raging in NSW and Victoria. Properties were lost to the Clear Range bushfire on the south coast of NSW over the weekend. And the ACT declared a state of emergency...
“A Disaster of Water Privatisation”: An Interview With Water for Rivers’ Tracey Carpenter
South Eastern Australia is facing its worst water crisis in living memory. In NSW, rivers that no one remembers having run dry in the past, have ceased to flow. And there are dozens of regional towns staring down the barrel...
