“Censorship by Omission”: Megan Krakouer on the Suppression of Black Opposition to the Voice
For anyone who’s been paying attention, it comes as no surprise that there’s a strong First Nations resistance to the Indigenous Voice to parliament that began as the Uluru Statement from the Heart, which contains the proposal, was being unveiled at...
Nauru Hunger Strikers Medevaced to Australia, After a Decade Detained Offshore
Two offshore detainees in Nauru were lying on a blanket outdoors last Friday, after having spent four days without eating or even taking water. These men were hunger striking in protest against our government having held them on the island...
NSW Police with Drug Dogs Saturate Global Mardi Gras: An Interview With Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann
The Australian prime minister marching in the Sydney Mardi Gras this year marked a stark shift in societal values as compared with the first time the event was staged in 1978, which saw the NSW police violently set upon the...
Government’s Press Freedom Roundtable is Futile if Assange’s Persecution is Ignored
The “elephant in the room” at attorney general Mark Dreyfus’ press freedoms roundtable this Monday is going to be Julian Assange, as any discussion on countering the erosion of local media protections will be left wanting without addressing his plight, the Assange...
UN Detainee Torture Prevention Committee Cancels Recalcitrant Australia
The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) announced on Monday that it’s terminated its trip to Australia, which it already attempted and had to pull out of midway last October, after NSW and Queensland had refused the delegation access to...
“We’re Seeing No Substantial Change”: School Strike 4 Climate’s Ethan Lyons on a Viable Future
Students across NSW, across the continent and further, across the planet are walking out of their classrooms next Friday, 3 March 2023, to take part in a global strike, calling on governments worldwide to take the action drastically needed to...
Nonreligious Marginalised as NSW Privileges Religious Voice, Warns Rationalist Society’s Meredith Doig
At a dinner of state faith leaders on 7 November, NSW Labor leader Chris Minns announced that if his party takes out the March state election, it will establish the NSW Faith Affairs Council, which will act as an advisory body...
Midnight House Arrest Politically Motivated, Says Student Housing Activist Cherish Kuehlmann
UNSW SRC education officer Cherish Kuehlmann had four NSW police officers bash on the front door of her Eastlakes apartment at midnight last Saturday and arrest her in relation to a housing crisis protest directed at major banks in Sydney’s...
The US Can Secretly Rotate Nuclear Warheads Through Australia
After a midmorning break on budget estimate proceedings, defence secretary Greg Moriarty delivered a response to a question put by Greens Senator Jordan Steele-John earlier in the day, which has since escalated the current debate over Australia relinquishing sovereignty to...
NSW Police Searches Target the Vulnerable, Report Confirms
The NSW Police Force has a predilection for searching members of the public, so much so that a recently released report has found that officers are annually conducting more than 150,000 personal searches: those that involve a body, or pat...
