Despite Pill Testing Bill, Minns Condemns Festivalgoers to a Summer of Drugtaking Blind
NSW Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann introduced pill testing legislation into state parliament last week, in an effort to save the lives of people who die regularly in drug-related circumstances, because while drugs like MDMA are illegal, they’re available on the black...
Albanese Votes Down Thorpe’s Post Referendum Indigenous Rights Advancing Bill
Prior to the election of the Albanese government in May 2022, which subsequently led to the failed Voice referendum of October 2023, Senator Lidia Thorpe introduced legislation into federal parliament that aimed at upholding the rights of First Peoples across...
“Literally Black Sites”: Dr Julie Macken on a Royal Commission into Immigration Detention
With the High Court ruling last month that the indefinite detention of unlawful noncitizens in immigration centres is illegal, the resulting release of around 140-odd people from a form of detention without an end or a crime, the Albanese government has...
“The Climate Movement Is Back”: Violet CoCo on XR Taking Over the Streets of Naarm
The word over recent weeks is that the local climate movement is back. The People’s Blockade of the World’s Biggest Coal Port saw 3,000 concerned citizens turn up on 25 November to shut down the Newcastle fossil fuel water passage for...
A “Geopolitical Debacle”: ‘Dubious Information and Evidence’ Used Against Extradition Detainee
Australian citizen Dan Duggan has been held in prolonged isolation in the NSW prison system since October 2022. The former US marine fighter pilot is currently detained in Lithgow’s maximum-security facility, as Washington seeks to extradite him over alleged breaches...
Sydney Condemns Israel’s Colonial Crimes, as the Genocide Resumes in Gaza
Israel got back to defending itself last Friday, which euphemism our PM Anthony Albanese likes to use to describe the wholesale massacre of the walled-in Palestinian population of Gaza, which is a tactic that provides the Netanyahu government carte blanche...
The Albanese Government Legislates Away Local Sovereignty to Facilitate US War on China
The currently paused genocide in Gaza has wiped out most noise regarding our nation’s US-led drive toward war on China off the front pages. Indeed, while the mainstream media has been projecting Israeli propaganda into living rooms nationwide, more than...
“You Don’t Betray Your Sources”: DBH’s Gerard Mazza on the ABC Handing Footage to Police
Seemingly bowing to political pressure, the ABC changed its mind on its initial decision not to hand over the footage that Four Corners journalists had taken of Disrupt Burrup Hub activists in July this year, as the group were planning...
Sydney’s Veteran Drug Law Reformists Call for Decriminalisation of Drug Possession
Sydney has a well-established and well-oiled drug law reform/harm reduction community made up of a group of experts, many with lived experience, who, despite the unwillingness of politicians to see the light, have long been pointing to its direction at...
“For Palestinian Liberation”: Unionists for Palestine’s Erima Dall on the Police Protest Crackdown
As NSW police set upon the 500 nonviolent demonstrators at Port Botany on 21 November with unbridled force, it became apparent that pro-Palestinian protesters are facing criminal charges in the same manner as climate defenders have been over recent years. The...
