NSW Pill Testing Is Welcomed, But No Substitute for Robust Drug Law Reform
A government-sanctioned pill testing trial happened at the two-day Yours and Owls music festival held in Wollongong last weekend. So, for the first time ever in the state of NSW, festivalgoers were able to have their illegal drugs tested for...
Former Magistrate Heilpern Continues to Call for Medicinal Cannabis Driving Defence
Medicinal cannabis became a legally prescribed medicine on 30 October 2016, and despite immense teething issues in terms of the drug initially being legal but unobtainable, the Medical Board of Australia celebrated more than one million patients prescribed by January...
Turns Out the UK AUKUS Submarines Are Just as Unviable as the US Subs
Senator David Shoebridge confirmed with Australian Submarine Agency director general vice admiral Jonathan Mead during Senate estimates on 26 February 2025 that, according to an official United Kingdom report, it’s unviable that the UK Rolls Royce facility charged with the...
Teen Death During High-Speed Chase Highlights Dangers of Police Pursuits
A 17-year-old boy died as the car he was a passenger in crashed and rolled on Weir Road in the northwestern NSW regional town of Bourke at 1.30 am last Friday 28 February, which was caused by a 45-minute-long NSW...
Australian Army Reservist’s Security Clearance Revoked Over Loyalty to Israel
A three-member bench of the Administrative Review Tribunal (ART) determined on 20 February 2025, that the 2 June 2023 decision of ASIO director Mike Burgess to strip a member of the Australia Army, referred to as HWMW, of his security...
Antisemites Under the Bed: Full Blown McCarthyism Hits Australia
The last week suspension of a grant presented to renowned Palestinian academic and author Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah has led commentators to declare that a version of 1950s US McCarthyism has now taken hold in Australia, with the latest iteration targeting...
Dumping Desperate Refugees in Foreign Countries Is Back: Interview with Senator David Shoebridge
The Albanese government came to power in 2022 talking big about ending the limbo of tens of thousands of refugees who’d been stuck on temporary protection visas for a decade, however as Labor ended its last full year of its...
Climate-Friendly, Progressive and Local: Interview with Greens Candidate for Sydney Luc Velez
Current environment minister Tanya Plibersek has held onto the federal electorate of Sydney since 1998. And when the Labor MP initially secured her comfortable seat, her political outlook was considered progressive and representative of the diverse constituency that she’d been...
Despite Judicial Criticism, NSW Government is Determined to Extend Youth Bail Refusal Law
During budget estimates on Wednesday, NSW Greens MLC Sue Higginson put it to the NSW premier that his government’s decision to extend a 12 month temporary youth bail law targeting particular kids living in regional areas, 88 percent of whom...
Dutton Plans to Deport Noncitizens Over Past Antisemitic Conduct
“Dutton has been one of the strongest voices in our country on antisemitism, and he is not ashamed to say that he unequivocally supports Israel,” said Sky News Antisemitism Summit cohost Sharri Markson, as she was about to interview the...
