Drug Driving in NSW: Lawful Cannabis Use and Honest Mistake Are No Defence
The medicinal cannabis industry in Australia was long criticised for its slow laborious movement towards accessible product. However, over recent years, the snail pace has developed into a gallop, as the nation, it was announced in January, has now one...
Another Australian Father Slated for Deportation, as Labor Continues Morrison’s Harsh Regime
Australia has always had a nasty policy of deporting people from the continent. And this has been ever-increasingly so since former prime minister Scott Morrison oversaw the passing a suite of immigration character test and deportation amendments when immigration minister...
NSW Police Officers Assault and Arrest Pro-Palestinian Protesters in Sydney
Sydney pro-Palestinian unionists and activists blocked off the road leading into Port Botany’s Patrick Terminal on Sunday night, targeting the Ganges container ship, which docked early that morning to unload goods bound for Australia, as the boat belongs to Israeli...
Gomeroi Victory Over Santos: An Interview With Gomeroi Elder Aunty Maria “Polly” Cutmore
A three justice bench of the Federal Court of Australia ruled on 6 March that the decision of the National Native Title Tribunal to greenlight the Santos Narrabri gas project to proceed on Gomeroi Country on 19 December 2022, does...
The Horrors of Gaza Soar, as the US-Backed Israeli Genocide Continues Six Months On
The next stage of the Gaza genocide that the Israeli military has its sights on is a ground invasion of Rafah, where more than one million Palestinians are gathered after the Netanyahu government has killed close to 32,000 people, with...
Court’s Tripling of Climate Defending Duo’s Prison Sentence Is a Sign of Things to Come
Victorian County Court Judge David Sexton outlined on Tuesday that Violet CoCo and Brad Homewood might have been “well-intentioned” in raising the climate alarm, but their method of blocking lanes of a bridge to do so, “caused a significant risk...
Howard’s Duping the Public on Iraq Should Stand as Warning to the Present
Australia following the US into a foreign war is pertinent at present. The slow understanding that China was starting to be framed as an adversary in the media commenced circa 2017 and, since last March’s San Diego AUKUS announcement, it’s...
“A Kick in the Guts”: Higginson on Minn’s “Retrograde” Crackdown on Youth Crime
The major parties are fast losing touch with their respective constituencies. And no matters reveal this more clearly at the federal level of late than the genocide in Gaza and the AUKUS submarine deal. But state governments are too failing...
A Year in It’s Certain, Chris Minns Is a Liberal Premier Dressed in Labor Trappings
The last NSW election, as usual, had Labor and the Liberals pitted against each other for governance. But the difference in the pre-election campaign, it was often remarked, was the seeming interchangeability between the leaders of each major both in...
New South Wales Introduces Fining Scheme for All Prohibited Drugs
The Minns government launched the Early Drug Diversion Initiative (EDDI) on 29 February 2024 with little fanfare, which is a shame because it does mark a long-pushed-for improvement on the zero-tolerance law enforcement approach to personal drug possession that had...
