Civil Disobedience Required: An Interview With Extinction Rebellion’s Miriam Robinson
Hundreds of police officers from other forces were called in last week to back up London’s Metropolitan police, as it tried to clear climate change protests from parts of the city that had successfully brought those areas to a standstill....
Lest We Forget the Futility of Gallipoli
Today, Australia collectively pauses to remember those who died in battle on foreign shores. It’s a day when the legend of the Anzac is celebrated and, as journalist Scott McIntyre and presenter Yassmin Abdel-Magied recently found, a day that can’t...
The Frontier Wars: The First Defence of Country
This Thursday, 25 April, marks the ninth anniversary of the annual Frontier Wars March in Canberra. This parade is a commemoration of First Nations resistance to the British invasion of the continent that began in 1788 and continued on in...
Indiscriminate Slaughter: The Leaks that Led to the Targeting of Assange
Right now, Julian Assange is languishing in south London’s Belmarsh maximum security prison. He’s facing up to 12 months inside for breach of bail. And he’ll appear in Westminster Magistrates Court via video link on 2 May for a hearing...
It’s Time to Regulate Cocaine and MDMA: An Interview with Transform’s Steve Rolles
The debate around legalising recreational cannabis in this country is growing louder. What once seemed to Middle Australia like a far-out idea held by some rural hippies, nowadays, isn’t such a distant concept as the news of successful legalisation in...
Free Assange: Incarcerated for Exposing the Truth
The US government arrested an Australian citizen in a foreign country last week for a crime he allegedly committed on foreign soil. And the response by prime minister Scott Morrison and his cronies was to slap each other on the...
On Legalising and Regulating Cocaine: An Interview With Dr Julian Buchanan
The NSW police drug detection dog program has been widely criticised, as it gets it wrong between two-thirds to three-quarters of the time. And the 2006 Ombudsman report pointed out that when searches are successful, most only turn up small...
Morrison Targets Animal Rights Activists, While Nazis Go Unhindered
A vegan rally against the society-wide exploitation of animals took place in Melbourne’s CBD on 8 April. And it captured the essence of what a protest is supposed to be about. It was unannounced. It surprised people. It caused delays...
Scott Morrison: The Dumbing Down of Kirribilli
Unelected prime minister Scott Morrison announced last Thursday that the next federal election will take place on 18 May. And if the Coalition’s 52nd consecutive Newspoll loss on Sunday is anything to go by, it’ll be his last big announcement...
Protecting the Sacred: An Interview With the Djab Wurrung Embassy’s Zellanach Djab Mara
VicRoads and Major Road Projects Victoria have plans to construct a four lane strip of highway between the towns of Ararat and Buangor in southwestern Victoria, as part of its $672 million Western Highway duplication project. This basically means that...
