Facebook Censorship: Silencing Anarchist and Anti-Fascist Groups
Facebook announced in a 19 August statement that it’s commenced erasing antifascist and anarchist content from its platform, as it claims that while these groups don’t directly organise violence, they “have celebrated violent acts” and have weapons they’ve suggested using....
History Will Condemn the Heartless Morrison Regime
Sitting on a table in prime minister Scott Morrison’s office is a metal trophy in the shape of an asylum seeker boat, with a statement proudly printed on its side, which reads, “I Stopped These.” It speaks of a white...
White Australia Continues to Hijack Television News, Report Finds
Flipping through Australian free-to-air television channels on a weeknight during the 6 to 7.30 pm timeslot, a viewer is confronted by news and current affairs programming that involves an overwhelming majority of white talking heads. Australia is a nation that’s...
Call Minister Tudge to Save Refugees’ Phones: An Interview With Mostafa Azimitabar
Refugees and their advocates are organising a calling party for 1 September that will involve members of the public phoning the office of acting immigration minister Alan Tudge to let him know that proposed laws allowing for the confiscation of...
Latham Targets Trans Children for Political Gain, Regardless of the Harm
It seems Mark Latham has been standing too close to the solvents yet again. This time the NSW One Nation MLC has introduced a bill that would erase trans children from the education system. And while it has next to...
Enhanced COVID Policing Is Fast Becoming the New Norm
“What we have seen in the last six months, in particular, is a ramping up of police hostility towards peaceful assemblies that goes far beyond anything I’ve seen in the last ten years,” Brisbane City councillor for the Gabba Ward...
“This Is Indefinite Detention”: Councillor Jonathan Sri on the Kangaroo Point Standoff
Right now, there’s around 120 former Manus and Nauru asylum-seeking detainees being held in Brisbane’s Kangaroo Point Central Hotel. This is after they were flown to Australia under the now revoked Medevac laws, as medical professionals assessed it was necessary due...
Lawyers Condemn UK Over Assange Extradition, as US Submits New Indictment
Australian legal adviser to Julian Assange Greg Barns SC asserts that “one of the most dangerous features of” the journalist’s “case is the idea that the US can seek to extradite any person, anywhere in the world, if they upset...
Defending Black Lives Matter: An Interview With Barrister Felicity Graham
“Felicity Graham is a gun,” declared Black Lives Matter rally organiser Paddy Gibson, as he stood out the front of the NSW Supreme Court on 24 July. At that moment, Gibson had just left the courtroom, where the Sydney barrister...
NSW Greens Push for Laws to Prevent Discrimination Against Sex Workers
NSW became the first jurisdiction on the planet to decriminalise sex work back in 1995. And since that time, the local industry has been lauded around the globe as a best practice model that upholds the rights of workers, promotes...
