Labor Must Act on Permanent Protection for All, Says Refugee Action Coalition’s Ian Rintoul
The Albanese government announced via the Herald early last week, that it will be granting 19,000 refugees, currently living within the community under temporary protection, permanent visas sometime in the new year. The 19,000 refugees in question are currently on temporary...
NZ High Court Rules that Supervising Deportees On Arrival is a Rights Violation
New Zealand High Court Justice Cheryl Gwyn, on 19 December, released her ruling relating to an NZ born man who was deported from Australia, under the terms of the character test contained in section 501 of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth). The...
Failure to Label the Wieambilla Far Right Killings as Terrorism is Unacceptable
The decision of Queensland police not to classify the Wieambilla killings as terrorist in nature strays from the evidence already available to the public, although it does follow the habit of Australian authorities not to classify anything but nonwhite Islamic-related...
Mick Fuller’s Failure to Disclose Horse Ownership Amounted to Wrongdoing, Police Watchdog Finds
Former NSW police commissioner Mick Fuller announced in February this year that following his resignation from the position of top cop the month prior, he was amongst the frontrunners for a seat on the board of Racing NSW. But the ABC put...
The National Native Title Tribunal Has Greenlighted the Narrabri Gas Project
The National Native Title Tribunal last Monday gave the greenlight to Australian fossil fuel company Santos to move forward with its Narrabri gas project in north western NSW, removing one of the final barriers to commencing the $3.5 billion enterprise that’s...
We’re Going to Swing Between Increasingly Deadly Mass Fires and Floods, Warns Violet Coco
When Violet Coco returned to the Downing Centre Court on 13 December 2022 for a further bail application after initially having her bail refused, a huge crowd of representatives from various civil society groups galvanised into one movement, spurred on...
Calls for an Australian Criminal Cases Review Commission: An Interview With Former High Court Justice Michael Kirby
From Februrary 2022: Michael Kirby has recently completed a chapter for a Canadian legal publication, in which the esteemed former High Court Justice outlines the need for more thorough safeguards against unjust convictions in this country. Within the chapter Miscarriages...
Decriminalising Drugs Would Enable Police to Focus on Serious Crime
As anti-drug dog campaign Sniff Off posted an image of NSW police at Central Station in March 2019, it was clear that law enforcement were taking matters to an extreme, as not only were officers accompanied by dogs, but they were further...
Have a Very Perrottet Christmas, Let’s Make Sure It’s Our Last
As a Christian fundamentalist and ultraconservative neocon, NSW premier Dominic Perrottet has done a fine job of maintaining an outward appearance in the public sphere that conveys a regular Aussie guy, whilst he holds viewpoints and social values that border on...
“I Am Proud of the Position I Have Taken”: ADF Whistleblower David McBride on Standing Up for Truth
The 17th recommendation made in the May 2021 report of the Senate inquiry into press freedom was that the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions reconsider continuing the case against ADF whistleblower David McBride “on strong public interest grounds”. The inquiry was...
