Black Lives Matter at Long Bay Prison: Justice Action’s Brett Collins on the Prison Crackdown
Just days after Black Lives Matter protests swept the nation, reigniting the Aboriginal Deaths in Custody movement in this country, reports started emerging that a similar demonstration was taking place inside Sydney’s Long Bay Gaol. Indeed, aerial footage shows inmates...
NSW Drug Driving Laws Are Unfair and Do Not Deter
This state’s unfair drug driving laws were a major reason why former Lismore magistrate David Heilpern retired. Over the last half decade or so, the judicial officer had built up a reputation across the Northern Rivers region for his just...
The Inherent Racism of Australian Police: An Interview With Policing Academic Amanda Porter
The Aboriginal Deaths in Custody movement has been reignited. Last weekend saw tens of thousands of people gather in capital cities and regional centres to protest the systemic violence in Australian policing and criminal justice systems that targets First Nations...
People Power Can Halt Gas Expansion: An Interview With Stop CSG Sydney’s Pip Hinman
On 3 June, a bill that would have imposed a statewide ban on coal seam gas (CSG) expansion passed in the upper house of NSW parliament. However, the Berejiklian goon squad made sure it appeared prematurely in the lower house...
Can’t Help Themselves: An Eyewitness Account of Police Brutality After the Black Lives Matter Rally
A large protest march against police violence towards First Nations people was never going to be the top of the NSW police commissioner’s wish list. Indeed, some presume that’s why Mick Fuller moved to have the NSW Supreme Court shut...
A United NSW Demands an End to First Nations Custody Deaths and Police Brutality
At 4.33 pm on Saturday 6 June, the 50,000 demonstrators gathered at Central’s Belmore Park knelt to mark the 433 First Nations deaths in custody since 1991. It was a solemn moment, as people from all racial backgrounds united in...
Australian Police: The History of Systemic Brutality Continues to This Day
Citizens have mobilised across the United States to protest the system in that country, which led four Minneapolis police officers to kill African American man George Floyd on 25 May in full view of the public, as if it was...
Legalising Cannabis Is Way Overdue: An Interview With Australian Greens Leader Adam Bandt
As of last Sunday, the personal possession and use of cannabis has been legal in the ACT for four months. In fact, you can even grow a couple of plants at home to consume yourself, and it won’t even raise...
Family of First Nations Teen Subjected to “Brutal Police Assault” Demands Justice
“Our son is a typical teenage boy and he feels more at home with his peers,” said the mother of a First Nations teen, who was thrown face first onto the ground by a police officer on Monday. “He’s got...
Uprising in West Papua: An Interview With Journalist John Martinkus
The construction of the Trans-Papuan Highway is a mammoth project the Indonesian government has had underway since 2013. The 4,325 kilometre road cuts its way through the mountains of occupied West Papua to join the coastal cities of Sorong and...
