Mardi Gras Police Accords Voted Down: Pride in Protest’s Luc Velez on the Progressive Shift
Pride in Protest’s Luc Velez picked up the second highest primary vote at this year’s Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras board election, which showed a marked shift in the political leanings of those attending the annual general meeting that...
Sydney’s Pro-Palestinians Drown Out Albanese’s Zionist-Sponsored Speech
As he delivered the 2023 Lowy Lecture at Sydney Town Hall on 19 December, prime minister Anthony Albanese told those before him that Australia is not just an observer “of the interplay of others’ ambitions” and the nation’s “foreign policy is...
Most Want Separate Church and State: Sydney Atheists’ Steve Marton on Minns’ Faith Council
The last years of federal Coalition rule were marked by an attempt by prime minister Scott Morrison to advance the religious freedoms debate, in a manner that saw him dress up laws attempting to prioritise Christian liberties over all other, under...
Sydney’s Healthcare Workers Rally for Murdered Palestinian Colleagues
For those who’ve travelled further than the western mainstream media version of the multiple war crimes transpiring in Gaza, they know that the Netanyahu government has forged a new low for humanity, in terms of making targeting hospitals a norm of...
Sydney’s Free Palestine Rallies Continue With No Sign of Stopping: Sunday’s Messaging in Photos
Masses of Sydney’s pro-Palestinians gathered again in Hyde Park to call for an end to the genocide that’s taking place in the Gaza Strip, as apartheid Israel’s far-right Netanyahu government continues to perpetrate the carnage, with around 18,000 Palestinians killed, 7,000 of...
US Summons Australia to the Middle East, as Congress Approves AUKUS Bill
US Congress passed the National Defence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, which authorises the transfer of three US Virginia class nuclear-powered submarines to Australia that, in turn, will serve to strengthen US posture in the Indo Pacific region. The bill also...
True to Form: Victoria Police Continues to Permit Nazis to March in Public Unannounced
Victoria police has, yet again, reminded the public that when it comes to law enforcement bodies the nation over, officers have a tendency to sympathise with far-right on-the-street agitators, whereas when leftwingers get out there doing it for Palestine or...
Hiding Australia’s Complicity: Shoebridge on Wong’s Trumpian Denial of Weapons Export Probing
An Israeli-perpetrated genocide has been underway in Gaza for the last two and a half months, which has resulted in around 18,000 Palestinians having been slaughtered. And more than 7,000 of the overwhelmingly civilian dead have been made up of children. The...
“A Sense of Complicity in Genocide”: UniMelb for Palestine’s Dana Alshaer on the Lockheed Martin Partnership
“Why does our university have a partnership with a weapons manufacturer in the first place?” UniMelb for Palestine organising member Dana Alshaer asked Melbourne University vice chancellor Duncan Maskell, which was a recorded confrontation that has since gone viral across social media....
Albanese Has Thrown Open the Doors to Unquestioned US Military Presence and Control
Hawkish defence minister Richard Marles, in the second last sitting week of federal parliament this year, tabled a bill to amend defence trade control law, which seeks to streamline the financial exchange of defence and strategic goods between the AUKUS powers:...
