“The Weakest Proposal for the Advancement of Aboriginal People”: Michael Mansell on the Voice
According to the PM, the Voice to Parliament referendum is set to be put to the Australian constituency in the second half of next year. And the results of a poll released this week, show that 50 percent of the population...
Sydney Demands the Criminal Charges Against Climate Defenders Be Dropped
Recent weeks have shone a light on the outcomes of the NSW Liberal National government’s crackdown on climate defenders, which commenced with the establishment of NSW Police Strike Force Guard in March and further saw the enactment of a new...
Climate Defender Emma Dorge Will Be Sentenced Tomorrow Over Port Botany Action
Climate defender Emma Dorge is to return to the Downing Centre Local Court tomorrow, after having secured a plea deal on 14 December, which involved her two most serious charges being dropped, whilst she pleaded guilty to four lesser charges. ...
Sovereign Citizens: A Burgeoning Breed of Domestic Terrorist
Last week’s massacre at Wieambilla in the Queensland Western Downs region reveals that the schism that developed in Australian society during the pandemic lockdown period has produced a small but dangerous group of new extremist actors. This outcome was similar...
Climate Defender Emma Dorge Takes Plea Deal Over Nonviolent Direct Action
Climate defender Emma Dorge went before the Downing Centre Local Court on Wednesday, 14 December 2022 over charges relating to her having suspended herself by a bipod to the side of a Port Botany freight bridge blocking all rail coming...
Violet Coco Speaks: We’re in Disaster Alley on Climate and Emergency Transition Is Needed
Violet Coco has put herself on the line in taking protest actions aimed at saving the planet from climate collapse. And in having been arrested on numerous occasions over the last few years, the ardent climate defender has shown determination...
Andrews Protest Crackdown Is Growing the Movement, Says GECO’s Tuffy Morwitzer
In the aftermath of the 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires, which saw two-thirds of protected East Gippsland forest burnt to the ground, the Andrews government immediately determined to greenlight the ongoing logging of the region without making any accommodation for loss. Needless...
Over 230 Civil Society Groups Condemn NSW Government’s Anti-Protest Regime
More than 230 civil society organisations have joined together to condemn the sentencing of local climate defender Violet Coco to 15 months imprisonment for staging a nonviolent direct action that involved the blocking of one lane of the Sydney Harbour...
Disrupting Roads Is for Planet Not for Kicks, Says Stop Fossil Fuel Subsidies’ Danny Noonan
Right now, governments across the country are cracking down on climate defenders and the nonviolent direct actions that they’ve been taking via the enactment and enforcement of oppressive laws that threaten hefty prison time for protests that involve disrupting business...
A Mounting Climate Movement Unites, as Coco Receives Bail
A huge crowd gathered before the Downing Centre courts on Tuesday morning at 9 am in support of Violet Coco, who is the first climate defender to have been convicted and imprisoned under the Perrottet government’s recently established authoritarian anti-protest regime....
