China’s All-Pervasive Eyes of Surveillance in the Uyghur Homeland
Right now, there are over a million mainly Muslim Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities being arbitrary detained in political indoctrination camps in the Chinese far western province of Xinjiang - or the country of East Turkestan, as the locals know...
Outrage as Morrison Continues Inaction on Violence Towards Women
The horrific quadruple murder of Hannah Clarke and her three young children by ex-partner Rowan Baxter on 19 February, drew national attention to the ongoing crisis of violence against women and their children, which annually takes the lives of many...
COVID-19 May Trigger Use of Liberty-Restricting Laws
At 11 am on 12 March, there were 126 confirmed coronavirus cases in Australia, and three people had died as a result of the disease. While attorney general Christian Porter had warned the week prior that in response to the...
A Holistic Approach to Defending Women: An Interview With the LACW’s Elena Pappas
Although the number of women behind bars is still relatively small compared to men inside, women’s numbers in prison have been on a dramatic increase over recent years. Last September, there were 3,505 women inmates in Australian facilities compared with...
A Just Transition: An Interview With NSW Greens MLC Abigail Boyd
The 2019-20 bushfire catastrophe saw Australia become ground zero of the climate crisis. A recent study found that more than 20 percent of forest on the mainland was engulfed by the flames, which is in a scope that’s never been...
Good People Break Bad Laws: Rough Sleepers
In terms of the law, people who are forced to sleep out on the streets are already on the wrong side of it, seemingly because they have no fixed address. Indeed, the 334 rough sleepers counted in the City of...
The Offence of Aggravated Unlawful Entry on Inclosed Lands in NSW
NSW agriculture minister Adam Marshall announced in a press release on 31 January that the first two people had been charged with the offence aggravated trespass on inclosed lands since the penalties that apply to the crime in relation to...
Good People Break Bad Laws: Animal Rights Activists
Activists around the globe promote 2018’s Dominion as the quintessential animal rights documentary that exposes the cruelty underlying the modern animal agriculture industry. But, it was 2014’s Lucent that landed director Chris Delforce in hot water. For revealing the rampant...
“Built Upon Our Genocide”: An Interview With Wreck the Endeavour’s Lorna Munro
Right now, there’s a replica of Captain Cook’s ship the Endeavour docked at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney, which is set to conduct a circumnavigation of the continent beginning on 28 April - in a re-enactment of a...
Ice Inquiry Makes Recommendations, But Government Has Its Head in the Sand
In its final report, the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry into the Drug “Ice” outlines that the use of methamphetamine and other similar drugs “requires compassionate responses consistent with human rights approaches, rather than punitive responses that can compound the...
