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...
Preaching “Just Say No” Endangers Lives: Informed Decision-Making Protects Them
We live in a state where the head of government continues to spout rhetoric about drug use in line with former US first lady Nancy Reagan. The “just say no” to drugs approach remains as simple and ineffective as it...
Australia’s Future Is Nationwide Facial Recognition Surveillance
Date first published 26 July 2019 Around one million Uyghur people are being detained right now in political re-education camps in China. This mass incarceration program of the majority Muslim people is being carried out in their homeland, which is...
NSW Government Criminalises Animal Rights Activism
The Berejiklian government announced last Monday that it’s about to make amendments to NSW biosecurity laws, which are designed to prevent “vegan vigilantes” trespassing upon farms and slaughterhouse properties. Taking effect on 1 August, these new ag-gag measures will allow...
Truth-Telling Before Treaty-Making: An Interview With Ken Canning
In late May, fourteen Australian organisations came out in support of the constitutionally-enshrined Indigenous voice to parliament. This was the proposal contained within the Referendum Council’s May 2017 Statement from the Heart. Amongst the organisations that issued the response of...
Dutton Argues Against Calls for Drug Decriminalisation
NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian has granted the ice inquiry commissioner Professor Dan Howard SC the extension he requested for the tabling of his report, so as to allow more time to consider the decriminalisation of the personal possession and use...
Preventing Evictions: An Interview With The First Nations Homelessness Project’s Jennifer Kaeshagen
Western Australia has the highest rate of public housing evictions in the country. Over the period July 2016 to April 2018, 1,242 households were ordered to vacate their public housing property, with extreme poverty being the major driver behind these...
Baxter Youth Detainee Riot Reveals Failures in Juvenile Justice System
Sunday night’s riot and the subsequent standoff at the Frank Baxter Juvenile Justice Centre has drawn keen attention towards the broken NSW youth justice system, which sees highly disadvantaged children and youths locked away in under resourced facilities. The riot...
