The Ihumātao Occupation: In Protection of Māori Land
The more than three-year-long occupation at Ihumātao in Māngere, south Auckland, has come to a head over recent weeks, with police numbers stepped up at the Ōtuataua Stonefields Historic Reserve, where the local Māori protectors of the area are camped....
Saving the Rivers from Corporates: An Interview With Water Activist Bruce Shillingsworth
News of the environmental devastation taking place along the Barwon-Darling river system in north western NSW hit the city last summer, when reports of several mass fish kills near the town of Menindee made headlines. Part of the larger Murray-Darling...
“The Best Form of Welfare is a Job”: PM Refuses to Raise Welfare Payments
“The best form of welfare is a job,” prime minister Scott Morrison suggested to the House of Representatives on 29 July, as he was justifying why he wouldn’t be raising the rate of the pittance Newstart allowance. Rather than upping...
Transformation Through Telling: An Interview Ngikalikarra Media’s Alexander Hayes
The Church of England Boys’ Society was an outreach program of the Anglican Church that involved adults running weekly meetings and weekend activities for young members of the faith. The organisation was at its height during the 1970s and 80s....
The Rules for Changing a Plea from Guilty to Not Guilty
On 30 June 2004, Raymond Wong pleaded guilty before a magistrate in the Sydney Local Court to one count of committing an act of indecency, contrary to repealed section 61N of the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW). At the time, Wong...
NSW Police Partially Strip Search 13-Year-Old Boy in Public
Sniff Off posted an image on its Facebook page last Tuesday that shows a NSW police officer partially strip searching a 13-year-old boy on the side of the road in broad daylight. The officer appears to be lifting up the...
Encroachments Upon the Right to Protest: An Interview With RAC’s Dr Nicholas Riemer
There was a large turnout at Sydney’s Town Hall on 20 July to protest the fact that the Australian government has now detained asylum seekers and refugees on Manus and Nauru for six years. Indeed, Morrison and his cronies continue...
Calls to End Laws that Discriminate Against LGBTIQ Teachers
A few years back, high school teacher Craig Campbell received an email from the WA Teacher Registration Board stating that after having worked for two years as a relief teacher at a Baptist college located south of Perth, he’d been...
Government Is Likely Tracking Young Activists: An Interview With Dr Stanley Shanapinda
Alarm bells rang for digital rights advocates in August 2014, when at a joint press conference, then prime minister Tony Abbott and attorney general George Brandis announced that the government was introducing a metadata retention regime to counter the threat...
“It Is Now Time for Civil Disobedience”: How the Rebellion Plans to Bring About Change
The human race has until the end of next year to initiate changes that will allow for a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, so that global temperatures don’t exceed a 1.5 degree rise by the end of the...
