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...
Unlawful Strip Search Class Action Will Proceed, Despite NSW Government’s Attempt to Stop It
Right before the COVID pandemic shut down Sydney, NSW police use of strip searches was one of the state’s most prominent social justice issues, and coupled with drug dogs, these law enforcement tactics employed to find illicit drugs, are considered...
Melbourne Mass Drug Overdose Provides the “Mandate” to Rollout Pill Testing
Eight festivalgoers were in critical condition following a mass overdose incident at Melbourne’s Hardmission Festival last Saturday night. And so widespread was the negative impact upon those who’d taken the same bad batch of pills that event medics had to...
“Hospitals Are Not Targets”: Sydney Healthcare Workers Continue to Call for Gaza Ceasefire
The ongoing genocide in Gaza is a crime against all humanity as it legitimises the killing of innocent children, civilian women and men, as well as the targeted killing of journalists and healthcare workers, so as to ensure the annihilation...
The Unreported Sea of Pro-Palestinian Humanity Continues to March on Sydney: 13th Week in Photos
No one contemplated the carnage Israel has been perpetrating on Gaza would be ongoing thirteen weeks on, as such was its scale to begin with that the magnitude of the humanitarian crisis that would be occurring right now would be...
“A Slow Burn Ethnic Cleanse”: APAN’s Nasser Mashni on the South African ICJ Genocide Case
South Africa stepped up just before the turning of the new year to lodge an application to initiate proceedings against the Israeli state, charging it with ongoing violations of the Genocide Convention, via the three-month-long wholesale massacre it’s been perpetrating in...
Disrupt Burrup Hub Advisor Criticised for Media Prowess: Interview with Jesse Noakes
Disrupt Burrup Hub arrived on the scene in January last year, capturing the nation’s attention as artist and activist Joana Partyka spray painted the Woodside logo onto the classic Australian painting “Down on His Luck”, in a move that didn’t damage...
Howard’s Greenlighting of Iraq Looms Ominously, So It’s Hardly Surprising Files Are Missing
With the UK troubled at home and unable to maintain its presence in Asia, then Labor PM John Curtin announced to Australia in December 1941 that, in the midst of the Second World War, the nation was turning to the...
UN Anti-Torture Body Condemns Australia, After Local Authorities Ran It Out of Town
Since the mid-2016 revelations around the abuse of First Nations children at the hands of non-Indigenous adult officers in Darwin’s Don Dale youth justice centre, the understanding that torture is a practice that does take place in some deep recesses of...
Importing Any Disposable Vape Into Australia Is Now Banned
As of the 1st January 2024, a nationwide prohibition on the importation of single-use vapes came into effect, which is just the first stage in a crackdown upon this alternative to smoking, and the new year ban applies regardless of...
