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...
It’s Time to End Morrison’s Religious Privilege Crusade
Morrison’s religious discrimination legislation could be brought to federal parliament as early as next week. The Pentecostal PM wants to prevent discrimination against the only institutions in the nation that have the right to discriminate incorporated into both federal and...
Recognition Is a Diversion From Treaty: An Interview With Lidia Thorpe
Recently appointed Indigenous affairs minister Ken Wyatt announced at the National Press Club on 10 July that he’s proposing the country hold a referendum on constitutional change for First Nations peoples during the current parliamentary term. The debate around constitutional...
Legalise Drugs to Reduce Violent Crime: An Interview With LEAP’s Greg Denham
One of the unintended consequences of the war on drugs listed in the 2011 Global Commission on Drug Policy report is “the growth of a ‘huge criminal black market’, financed by the risk-escalated profits of supplying international demand for illicit...
NSW Police Are Using Strip Searches to Intimidate
The NSW coronial inquiry into six drug-related deaths at music festivals heard testimony last week regarding a police officer who threatened to make a strip search “nice and slow”, unless the woman being ordered to take her clothes off, confessed...
