Get the Hell Out of Bed With Santos, Gladys, Warns Extinction Rebellion
Traffic on Sydney’s Macquarie Street was brought to a standstill at 4 pm on 14 October, as a bed appeared high on the barricades out the front of state parliament, and upon it was the embodiment of the NSW government...
Sydney University Students Heighten Protest Campaign, As Police Escalate Use of Force
Sydney University continues to be the frontline of the battle for the right to protest, and the clash to push back attacks on higher education and critical thought. Although the excessive policing that’s causing it to be the epicentre, is...
Sydney University Caught Colluding With NSW Police Over Protests: The SRC’s Jack Mansell Speaks Out
Since late July, reports on the overpolicing of COVID safe student and staff demonstrations at Sydney University have been doing the rounds of both social and mainstream media. Riot squad, mounted and general duties officers have all been deployed in...
Trans Rights Activists Triumph Over Protest Ban, Police Respond With Force
At a couple of minutes to 1pm on Saturday, there was a heavy police presence at Sydney’s Taylor Square, which was disproportionate to the number of civilians in the area. It led one shop owner to approach a group of...
The Morrison Government Is Not Fit for Purpose
The nation can’t lay the blame for the financial blowout it’s facing solely at the feet of Morrison, Frydenberg and Cormann, as this year, the whole planet is suffering through the COVID-19 pandemic, which has blown the cogs off of...
Ensuring Aboriginal Affordable Housing in Redfern-Waterloo: An Interview With Warren Roberts
As Professor Gary Foley recalls in his history of the Black Power movement in Redfern, the inner city suburb is of particular significance to First Nations people in Warrang-Sydney. It was the centre for the rising Aboriginal rights movement back...
We Will Stop the “Ludicrous” Narrabri Gas Project, Says Knitting Nannas’ Kathy McKenzie
“It’s not a good look loading little old ladies with osteoporosis into paddy wagons.” The NSW Independent Planning Commission (IPC) gave Santos approval to move ahead with its $3.6 billion Narrabri Gas Project on 30 September. The highly opposed plan...
Australia Opposes the Death Penalty, Which is Why We Fund Those Facing It
China’s Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court announced in writing last June that Australian citizen Karm Gilespie has been sentenced to death by firing squad over allegedly trying to smuggle 7.5 kilograms of methamphetamine out of the country on New Year’s Eve...
The Australian Government “Has to Get Involved”: Greg Barns SC on the Plight of Assange
Last week marked the close of evidence in the current proceedings involving Julian Assange. The United States is attempting to have the Australian journalist and publisher extradited from the UK, under the UK-US Extradition Treaty. This is somewhat suspect as...
The People Win: Dutton Won’t Be Removing Refugee Detainees’ Phones
A significant victory was claimed by the Australian campaign to uphold the rights of wrongly detained refugees in this country, when Senator Jacqui Lambie announced last Friday that she’ll be voting against depriving immigration detainees of contact with the outside...
