Tougher Bail Laws Have Led to a Sharp Rise in Refusals
The number of adults being detained in the NSW prison system is at an all-time high. As of March this year, the prisoner population stood at 13,494, according to NSW Bureau of Crimes Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) figures. This represented...
Premier Wants Sniffer Dogs in Schools
The present heavy-handed approach to illicit drug use has been widely been discredited by former police commissioners, politicians and health professionals. Instead of curbing the use of the illegal drugs, it’s accepted it increases the harms associated with substance use. However,...
Live Facial Recognition Surveillance: Next on Our Government’s Agenda?
Currently, a parliamentary committee is reviewing a bill introduced into federal parliament in February that would establish a national facial recognition system allowing federal and state police access to a hub linking all identification photo databases that could be matched with...
End Forced Organ Harvesting: An Interview With DAFOH’s Sophia Bryskine
An exhibition of actual human corpses that’s currently being shown at the Moore Park Byron Kennedy Hall is causing public outrage. Real Bodies: The Exhibition features the display of 20 cadavers and over 200 human organs preserved through plastination in...
Dutton Considers Increasing Government’s Surveillance Powers
A proposal was recently floated by two government department officials to enhance the powers of Australia’s cyber spying agency, to enable it to digitally surveil Australian citizens from right here without a warrant. The proposal, if adopted, would add to the...
Church of Ubuntu Secretary Challenges Suppression Charges
This Saturday marks a year since a boy who suffers from spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy was taken from the care of his parents. On May 19 last year, NSW police and Family and Community Services (FACS) removed the boy from...
The Rights of People Who Use Drugs: An Interview With INPUD’s Judy Chang
The war on drugs has failed. This is a reality that’s increasingly being acknowledged around the globe, as communities start to realise that the outcomes produced by this intensification of drug law enforcement have been overwhelmingly destructive. The close to...
Victorian Liberals Push for Harmful Anti-Sex Work Laws
The Victorian Liberal Party recently passed a motion to support the Nordic model of sex work regulation. This is a sex work policy that criminalises clients and support structures of sex workers, rather than the workers themselves. Passed at the April...
The Five Eyes Alliance Is Watching You
Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull met with his Canadian, UK and New Zealand counterparts for a security briefing at the UK National Cyber Security Centre on April 18. Along with the US, the four countries represented at the meeting make up...
Stop the Mass Detentions: An Interview With World Uyghur Congress President Dolkun Isa
Date first published: 5 May 2018 Thousands of Uyghur people rallied outside the European Commission in Brussels on April 27, calling on foreign governments to take a stand against the detention of hundreds of thousands of their people in re-education...
