Dozens of Festival Deaths “Potentially Preventable” With Pill Testing, Study Finds
A just released research paper inquiring into the circumstances of drug-related deaths at music festivals in this country, has found that 64 such fatalities transpired at events across Australia over the period from July 2000 until the end of 2019. Produced...
Religious Freedoms Revisited: Attorney-General to Spruik Discrimination Laws for Those of Faith
As the next round of federal parliament kicks off in weeks, it’s expected that attorney general Mark Dreyfus is set to reignite the debate around religious discrimination laws, and the prejudicial measures that serve to discriminate against LGBTIQ persons in relation...
“Open Justice Is Essential But Not Absolute”: The Decision to Withold Collaery’s Secrets
The crux of the issue regarding court transcripts relating to barrister Bernard Collaery’s 2021 attempt to remove secrecy provisions covering “six identified matters” in his since-dropped prosecution has been set out by ACT Chief Justice Lucy McCallum in her 9 January...
The Majors to Crackdown on Internet Freedoms, as Mainstream Disinformation Peaks
The catastrophe in Gaza has brought the issue of mis- and dis-information into stark relief, as major media players in this country, and right across the western world, have been producing a sanitised version of events that convey a false...
March on Invasion Day for First Nations Justice: An Interview With Dunghutti Activist Paul Silva
The 12 months since last year’s Invasion Day protest and next week’s have been tumultuous in regard to Indigenous affairs, to say that least. Not only did the government stage an unsuccessful Indigenous Voice referendum, but it’s been supporting genocide...
“Uncle Rob is Right. Israel, Australia: What is the Difference?”: Senator Lidia Thorpe on Gaza
The Albanese government having thrown itself into the US-led defence of Israel as it perpetrates genocide on the Palestinians within the walled-in region of the Gaza Strip reveals one settler colonial nation supporting another in its subjugation of Indigenous peoples...
Dan Duggan Won’t Be Released During US Attempts to Extradite Him, Despite Not Having Been Charged
Australian citizen Dan Duggan continues to be held in prolonged solitary confinement at Lithgow Correctional Centre, as the former US marine pilot has spent the last 15 months initially at Silverwater and now a regional maximum-security facility, as he awaits...
Albanese Involves Australia in Yet Another Military Attack on a Foreign Nation
The US and the UK launched 73 airstrikes against Houthis forces in Yemen early last Friday, in an attempt to stop the militia continuing attacks upon commercial ships in the Red Sea. And as the US military outlines, 60 targets were...
Pro-Palestinians Praise South Africa as Sydney Rallies for the 14th Week: In Photos
On the 99th day of the Israeli perpetrated genocide in Gaza, thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered in Hyde Park North for the 14th week in a row. And the statement can yet again be made that the support for the...
Participants in the Nation’s Largest Civil Disobedience Action for Climate Get Off Lightly
Climate defence group Rising Tide staged The People’s Blockade of the World’s Biggest Coal Port over a weekend in November, which involved a 30-hour sanctioned on-water obstruction of the Nobbys Headland entrance to Newcastle Port, at the point where the Tasman and...
