Seen to Be Taking Action: Sydney Climate Coalition’s James Supple on the Safeguard Mechanism
As soon as the Albanese government took over in May 2022, international media commentators began referring to the new administration as forward-thinking on the issue of climate, in stark contrast to those who’d been voted out. Indeed, under then prime...
“If Not Us, Then Who?”: An Interview With Animal Justice Party Candidate Alison Waters
As Australian animal rights pioneer Linda Stoner remarked at a recent rally in Sydney, back in the 1970s, when she first became a vegetarian after reading academic Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation, trying to find a restaurant that could facilitate her...
“Doing the Bidding of the United States”: Senator Shoebridge on the Dan Duggan Extradition
During the 4th of March Sydney Belmarsh Tribunal into the ongoing incarceration of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in a London prison whilst the United States seeks to extradite the Australian publisher, Greens Senator David Shoebridge raised a case with striking similarities....
Albanese Condemns Refugees Detained Offshore for a Decade to No Future
After a decade of breaching international law by detaining asylum seekers who arrived by boat on poor island nations, the Australian government is continuing to hold around 130-odd refugees offshore: 88 in Papua New Guinea and 51 on Nauru. These...
Get Ready for War With China Kids, as Albo’s Bashing Those Drums for Biden
Crack open your rations, as the countdown to war on China just kicked off at 7.50 am Sydney time today, when, over in California, prime minister Anthony Albanese, US counterpart president Joe Biden and UK PM Rishi Sunak announced the AUKUS...
Sydney Trans Rights Activists Protest UK TERF Kellie-Jay Keen: In Pictures
Sydney trans rights activists and antifascists gathered in Victoria Park on Saturday to rally against an event put on by prominent UK transphobe and far-right figure Kellie-Jay Keen, who’s currently on the Australian Let Women Speak Tour, which involves a...
Sydney Animal Liberationists Call on Government to End Lawful Systemic Abuses
Sydney’s Belmore Park was awash with animal rights activists last Saturday, 4 March, as they gathered, just weeks before the NSW state election, for the Sydney Animal Rights March to protest against the systemic abuse of animals under Australian law....
Stop the Cultural Genocide: Sydney’s Tibetan Community Rallies Against Colonial Schools
Tibetans rallied in Sydney’s Martin Place on Friday, 10 March, marking 64 years since the 1959 Tibetan Uprising, which saw thousands gather in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa to protest China’s consolidating of its control over its neighbouring nation, after...
There’s a Dire Need for a National Forensic Science Authority
Sue Neill-Fraser is currently living in the Tasmanian community under strict parole condtions, including having to wear an ankle bracelet, which will continue on for another decade, in relation to the murder of her de facto partner Bob Chappell on...
Locked Up for Telling the Truth: Activist Stephen Langford on Rising Authoritarianism
Sydney activist Stephen Langford was arrested on 2 March, over having stuck several pieces of A4 paper - each with an 1816 NSW governor Lachlan Macquarie directive printed upon it - on a statue of the same man that’s situated at...
