A “21st Century Holocaust”: An Interview With Uyghur Activist Talgat Abbas
According to the Torchlight Uyghur Group, when the flights out of Wuhan city - the coronavirus epicentre - were cancelled on 23 January, one set of flights was allowed to continue, and they were those bound for Urumqi, the capital...
“Julian Did Redact”: An Interview With Lawyer-Journalist Mark Davis
The line up of renowned Australian journalists on the stage at the Martin Place Amphitheatre on 24 February was impressive. Gathered for a rally, they included John Pilger, Mary Kostakidis, Quentin Dempster, Wendy Bacon, Andrew Fowler and Mark Davis. They...
Dutton Plans to Set Our International Spy Agency Upon Citizens
Home affairs minister Peter Dutton quietly announced to the ABC a fortnight ago that the Morrison government’s - often denied - push to turn the nation’s international spying agency on its own citizens is close to finalisation. The minister rolled...
Intercepting the Liberals’ Mardi Gras Float: An Interview With the Department of Homo Affairs
At this year’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade, a group of twenty activists from the Department of Homo Affairs (DOHA) located an unauthorised float - that of the Liberal Party - and moved in to turn it back. Not...
Police Prosecutors’ Duty of Disclosure in NSW Local Courts
On 28 April 2018, Harley Bradley bit the finger of Katie O’Connor to the extent that it cut to the bone. And on the advice of a community caseworker she subsequently reported the incident, which had led to the need...
NSW Still Forces Trans People to Undergo Surgery for Legal Recognition
A January 2019 ruling of the Japanese Supreme Court in the case of a 43-year-old transgender man who challenged having to undergo sterilisation in order to gain legal recognition of his gender sparked international condemnation, as it was found the...
Good People Break Bad Laws: Illicit Drugs
Not a lot of people who’ve grown up under drug prohibition consider that going back a little over a hundred years ago, the substances we commonly associate with being outlawed were for the most part legally available. The first rumblings...
Drug Alerts: Warning the Public About Toxic Batches of Illicit Drugs
According to ex-Victoria police sergeant Greg Denham when a dodgy batch of ecstasy caps - which ultimately resulted in the deaths of three people - were being distributed around Melbourne’s Chapel Street in early 2017, the police were aware of...
Australia Moves to Block an Investigation into War Crimes in Palestine
On Wednesday, Israeli president Reuven Rivlin paid a visit to Australian parliament in Canberra. And to greet him was a vigil for Palestinian human rights, which involved a number of federal parliamentarians, including Andrew Wilkie, Mehreen Faruqi and Adam Bandt....
“A Local Solution to a Local Problem”: An Interview With Uniting MSIC’s Dr Marianne Jauncey
UNSW criminology lecturer Dr George Dertadian released his findings last week from a study that utilised national coronial overdose death data, which pointed to southwestern Sydney as an ideal candidate for a second safe injecting facility. Dertadian found that between...
