Continued Legal Hotel Detention Confirms Australia a Human Rights Abuser in Law
Federal Court Justice Bernard Murphy ruled on 6 July that the practice of detaining refugees and those deemed unlawful noncitizens in hotels, which are then referred to as alternative places of detention (APODs), is within the bounds of Australian migration law....
Wong Dashes Last Hopes of Her Government Saving Assange, as US Continues Pursuit
Australian journalist and publisher Julian Assange turned 52 in London’s Belmarsh prison last week. It was his fifth 3rd July birthday that the WikiLeaks founder has spent at the notorious maximum-security facility over having published classified US documents that had...
Welfare Not Warfare: NUS Education Officer Xavier Dupé on Students Rejecting Militarisation Over Society
The Morrison government had already kicked the Australian constituency in the guts in September 2021, when it announced that we were entering a new security arrangement with the US and UK, known as AUKUS, which includes acquiring new submarines that require...
Will New Federal Laws Protect Us From Disinformation or Serve to Silence Political Dissent?
The freedom of expression the internet has brought to the global community has always posed an issue for governments, as the information they disseminate can now more easily and openly be questioned and critiqued. This is especially so in this...
Proposed New Laws Would Make It Legal to Possess and Grow Cannabis at Home
Sparking up a reefer in the privacy of your own living room has been legal in Canberra since 31 January 2020. And residents of the Australian Capital Territory have been able to grow their own cannabis plants lawfully at home as well,...
Proposed Amendments to NSW Anti-Discrimination Act Will Fuel Transphobic Hate
Over the Morrison-era, there were attempts federally and in this state to pass laws to provide religious people with antidiscrimination protections, yet these bills also contained measures that tended toward rights law to the point that those of faith would be empowered...
Albanese Ought to Recognise the State of Palestine, as Wong Put It Firmly on the Agenda
Labor’s 2021 National Platform states that while the party supports the two-state solution in regard to Palestine and Israel, it “calls on the next Labor government to recognise Palestine as a state and expects that this issue will be an...
Citizen Tortured by Australia at Behest of US, Over Offence That Isn’t a Crime Over Here
Saffrine Duggan, wife of Australian citizen Daniel Duggan, detailed in a letter to the NSW Ombudsman in early June that her husband had been held in extreme isolation for 230 days by that point, as he continues to be remanded...
Albanese Abolishes Cashless Welfare, Then Rebrands and Relaunches It With Plans to Expand
Albanese oversaw the passing of legislation on 19 June to facilitate the holding of a referendum this year, which will decide on whether Indigenous people should be recognised in the Constitution, as well as whether a body be established to advise...
PNG Public Service Raises Fears Over Marape Ceding Sovereignty to the US
Increasing disquietude is simmering amongst Papua New Guinea’s public sector, as well as with a growing number of that nation’s intellectuals, as concerns over diplomatic ties Port Moresby is forging with Washington would appear to be triggering further tensions in...
