A Million Uyghur Civilians Arbitrarily Detained: An Interview with the WUC’s Shahrezad Ghayrat
Right now, the Chinese government is carrying out a coordinated and intensified assault upon the Uyghurs: a mainly Muslim Turkic people, who live in a Central Asian region they recognise as East Turkistan, and which under China’s occupation is referred...
AFP to Demand Anyone’s ID and Move Them On at Airports
As an example of when Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers would use proposed new powers that would allow them to demand any individual’s ID for any reason at major Australian airports, Home Affairs first secretary Hamish Hansford said they would...
Morrison’s Jerusalem Moment: The Damage Done
Australian prime minister Scott Morrison announced on 16 October that his government is considering moving the Australian embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and recognising the latter as the capital city of Israel. The beleaguered government’s suggested policy shift was seen...
‘It’s OK to Be White’: Coalition Senators Briefly Admit Their Allegiance
For a brief moment last week, members of the Coalition government came clean on the racist sentiments which are simmering so close to the surface amongst their ranks that it’s hard to claim they’re even trying to conceal them. A...
White Nationalists Plan to Infiltrate Mainstream Australian Politics
A group of 25 white nationalists covertly joined the NSW Young Nationals just before the party’s state conference in May this year. As the meeting transpired, regular members of the Nationals youth division found that motions were being introduced involving...
Kids Off Nauru: An Interview With World Vision Australia’s Andrew White
The tide is turning over the issue of removing the close to 80 children still being held in offshore detention off Nauru. Indeed, events over recent days reveal that the Morrison government is going to find it increasingly untenable to...
First Nation Economic Independence: An Interview With the Treaty Council’s Alex Wymarra
Australia is the only settler colonial nation not to have entered into treaties with the First Nations of the continent. Indeed, it wasn’t until the 1992 High Court of Australia Mabo decision that the nation actually recognised Indigenous peoples’ prior claim...
Death Count Soars as Epidemic of Violence Against Women Continues
Since the beginning of this month a total of eight women have been killed violently in Australia. In at least seven of the cases, the victims knew the men who murdered them. And yet, no national outcry has occurred, and...
Authorising the Unlawful: The Powers of Undercover Police in NSW
An unidentified man was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison last February for his part in the robbery of an Armaguard truck outside a Sydney shopping centre back in March 2013. However, police were initially concerned they didn’t have...
Religious Freedom Laws: PM Proposes Schools Can Sack Teachers, but Not Expel Students
Following the leaking of a section of the Ruddock religious freedoms review last week, Scott Morrison spoke out in support of recommended strengthening and clarification of federal laws that allow religious schools to discriminate against students and teachers on the basis...
