Robodebt Report Reveals Federal Government’s Obsessive Demonisation of the Unemployed
Making jibes about welfare recipients, or dole bludgers, in the popular disparaging parlance, has, for decades, been an easy way to score political points, in a practice where those without employment and in need of a helping hand, are often...
A Complete Clusterfuck: Illegal Munitions, North Atlantic Expansion and Vassal States
At the White House last Friday, US national security advisor Jake Sullivan dropped it on the globe that the Biden administration, despite its having held off for a long as it could, will now be supplying the Ukrainians with cluster munitions...
NSW Should Regulate Adult Cannabis Use Immediately, Then Enact a Legalised Market
Cannabis is being legalised the world over. And the reports coming out of those jurisdictions where the plant has been legalised in one form or another speak of nothing but positive results, whether that be in terms of public wellbeing,...
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...
