Release Frail and Elderly Inmates for COVID: An Interview With Greens MLC David Shoebridge
The latest figures show that there were 13,635 adult inmates being held in NSW correctional facilities last December. This is a population at an increased risk of catching COVID-19 if there’s an outbreak in one of these centres that are...
Rebellion Is Our Moral Duty: An Interview With Extinction Rebellion’s Larissa Payne
In mid-April last year, masses of climate activists shutdown major parts of London for over a week. Those involved in the nonviolent direct actions rallied under the banner of Extinction Rebellion (XR), which is a movement that was then relatively...
Chomsky Declares “Morrison’s Australia” Amongst Top Three Climate Criminals
Amidst the responses to the burgeoning COVID-19 crisis, it’s somewhat easy to forget that just a blink of an eye ago, Australia was ground zero of the global climate emergency, as the nation bore witness to 20 percent of its...
Government Ignores Vital Family Violence Reducing Solutions
Hannah Clarke and her three children were doused in petrol and burnt to death by her ex-partner in a Brisbane suburb on 19 February. She is one of nine women who’ve been violently killed so far this year, according to...
High Court Rules on the Admissibility of Illegally Obtained Evidence
Animal protection organisation, Animals Australia, received an anonymous tip off in November 2014 regarding the illegal practice of live baiting greyhounds being used at a Londonderry property in Sydney’s western suburbs. As a result, the organisation’s chief investigator, Lyn White,...
Dutton’s New Laws Will Allow Governments to Access Your Data Across Borders
It’s three months into the new year and Peter Dutton has come out swinging with a new rights eroding piece of legislation that’s destined to increase the reach of all law enforcement and spying agencies under the home affairs umbrella...
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...
