Chief Minister Dismisses Findings of Institutional Racism in Northern Territory Police Force
Released on 7 July 2025, the 683 page coronial report into the killing of Warlpiri Luritja teenager Kumanjayi Walker by then NT police constable Zachary Rolfe, which was produced by NT coroner Elisabeth Armitage, was so damning in its finding...
Harbour Bridge March for the Starving of Gaza to be Challenged by NSW Police in Court
Following NSW premier Chris Minns’ refusal to permit the Palestine Action Group to lead a massive protest march calling for an end to Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip, across the Sydney Harbour Bridge this Sunday 3 August 2025, the...
NSW Police Use of Drug Dogs and Strip Searches Slammed as Ineffective and Unlawful
Of the 82,471 strip searches NSW police performed over the ten years to 2023, only 11,136, or 13.5 percent turned up an illicit substance. Further, 6,716 of these searches followed a drug dog indication, yet only 2,713 of them, or...
Australia Criticises Israeli War Crimes, But Won’t Do Anything About It
Anthony Albanese finally called out Israel on its close to 22-month-long mass atrocity crimewave in the Gaza Strip. “Quite clearly it is a breach of international law to stop food being delivered” the Australian PM told Insiders host David Speers...
Israel Has Illegally Abducted and Detained Two Australian Citizens in International Waters
The Australian PM and foreign minister have begun taking a harder line on Israel. Anthony Albanese stated on Sunday that the nation is in breach of international law due to its withholding of food from Palestinians in Gaza, while Penny...
No Moral Panic Sparked Over Attack on Islamic Place of Worship
Victoria police apprehended a 43-year-old man wielding a knife and calling out Islamophobic slurs outside the Hume Islamic Youth Centre on Wurundjeri land in the north Melbourne suburb of Coolaroo just before 6 pm on Monday 21 July 2025. Yet...
Labor Sanctions Faruqi for Raising Gaza Genocide, Not Israel for Its Commission of It
Federal Labor has expressed regrets but no real action on the Gaza genocide that Israel has been perpetrating over the last 21 months, yet the moment that marked a step too far was when Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi produced a...
Guilty of Refusing to Disclose Password: Wage Peace’s Margaret Pestorius on Eroding Rights
Police asking civilians for the passwords to access their mobiles has become the norm, but in the vast majority of cases in NSW and in Queensland, officers need a warrant or a court order to require the code to access...
Despite Calls for Reform, NSW Police Officers Are Still Killing Mentally Ill People in Crisis
The NSW Police Force conducted a review of the practice of sending its officers in to deal with people having mental health crisis in public, as the problem is it often results in police killing civilians. And the review ultimately...
“They Can’t Take Your Integrity”: Councillor Rhonda Garad on Falling Prey to the Antisemitism Witch Hunt
The society-wide pressure not to speak out against the genocide Israel launched upon the Gaza Strip in October 2023 in Australia was instantaneous. This pressure required people not to raise the unbridled force Israel was pounding the people of Gaza...
