It’s Time to Reform Vaping Laws Through a “Harm Reduction Lens”
Right now, in NSW, an adult can buy some cigarettes at a shop and puff away to their ailing heart’s content. But if they’d prefer legal nicotine vaping liquid, a much healthier alternative, they need to obtain a doctor’s prescription....
Political Voices Unite Against Four-Year-Long Detention of Assange
Independent member for Clark Andrew Wilkie has been leading the Australian parliamentary campaign to see the persecution of Australian publisher Julian Assange brought to an end, even before his slow torture remanding in Belmarsh prison commenced four years ago. The Bring...
Under the NSW Antiprotest Regime, Oppressive Bail Conditions Are the True Punishment
After having been charged under the then recently enacted NSW antiprotest regime last June, ten Blockade Australia activists appeared before NSW Magistrate Christine Haskett at Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court on 5 April. The extreme antiprotest regime was a Perrottet government response to...
With Increasing Interoperability Between Australian and US Forces, Just Who’s in Control?
In his 2019 treatise on the Australian security state titled Secret, veteran journalist Brian Toohey sets out that the CIA was extremely concerned with Gough Whitlam holding the position of PM in the early 1970s, as the Labor leader questioned the...
As Protests Grow Globally, Police Are Increasingly Using Nonlethal Weapons on Civilians
The use of pepper ball rounds on anti-lockdown demonstrators by Victoria police in downtown Melbourne on several occasions over August 2021, marked an escalation in the law enforcement approach to public protest in this country. Released on 22 March, Lethal in Disguise...
Senator Shoebridge Is Consulting the Community on Legalising Cannabis This Year
Based on the model Greens Senator David Shoebridge has put on the table, legal cannabis could initially be sold at as little as $13 a gram, and even with GST, this could dip to $7 a gram within 5 years...
Australia Card Mark II: NSWCCL’s Michelle Falstein on Labor’s Proposed Digital Identity System
A meeting of the nation’s various data and digital ministers early this year, resulted in the release of a 24th February communique, which asserts an urgency around implementing a national digital identification system, which would make it easier for “citizens to...
“Enough Is Enough” Is Not a Policy Position, as Wong Doubles Down on Burying Assange
The Albanese government’s politicking on Assange has done many things. It’s provided attention, where they’d been a lack under Morrison. It’s given hope to supporters, even if that’s fast dwindling. And it’s bestowed the PM and cabinet with a justice-seeking,...
McBride’s Criminal Trial Date Set Next Week, as the ADF Whistleblower Faces Hard Time
Due to his whistleblowing efforts, which exposed Australian special forces officers having committed war crimes in Afghanistan, former Australian Defence Force lawyer David McBride is a hero to many in this country. So, it’s difficult to have heard him say...
NSW Police Turned Their Body Cameras Off Before Fatally Shooting Mentally Ill Man
NSW police tactical operations officers didn’t have to shoot Todd McKenzie dead on a July evening in 2019. Yet, following a nine-hour siege, five officers stormed his Taree home, where he was alone, and shot the 40-year-old man, having a mental...
