Another Teen Death in Custody, Despite 30-Year-Old First Nations Advice to Parliament
The recent death in custody of 16-year-old First Nations boy Cleveland Dodd has yet again highlighted the barbarity the Australian prison system metes out towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander detainees, especially Indigenous youths. For his part, Dodd was on...
The ABC’s Decision to Disclose its Sources Marks a Dark Day for Democracy
Airing on 9 October 2023, the Four Corners documentary Escalation involved ABC journalists engaging with several Perth-based climate defence groups in regard to the rising pushback by WA police against nonviolent protests aimed at defending the climate against human-caused global heating. ...
Israel’s Right to Self Defence Does Not Extend to Genocide
Standing next to Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese in the White House Rose Garden on 25 October, US president Joe Biden reiterated that “Israel has the right, and I would add responsibility” to “defend itself against these terrorists”. By “terrorists”...
The Flaccid Diplomacy of Vassal State PM Anthony Albanese in the US
PM Anthony Albanese has again been in the United States standing side-by-side his local counterpart Joe Biden on podiums just like he did in March, when he and the American president laid out the details of the AUKUS pact, which...
NSW Premier Won’t Introduce Pill Testing, Despite Continuing Deaths and Calls From His Own Party
“Politics often presents the choice between the unpalatable and the disastrous,” said former NSW Labor premier Bob Carr, during a speech he gave to a 2022 Sydney drug law reform conference last year. Indeed, Carr’s alternates sum up exactly the...
Strip Searches: Minns Probes Whether Sexual Assault by the State Is Right for Kids
Redfern Legal Centre released figures on 17 October, outlining how many children - 10- to 17-year-olds - NSW police officers have strip searched over the 24 months to June this year, which revealed that 107 kids had been made to...
“Ultimate Goal of Genocide”: Palestinian Action Group’s Josh Lees on Israel’s Gaza Massacre
As thousands gathered in major urban centres across every continent over the last weekend, the overwhelming groundswell of global support for the Palestinian people was something we’ve never witnessed before in regard to the apartheid state of Israel and its...
The Gaza Crisis Reveals Why Our Government Wants More Laws to Police Truth on the Net
US president Joe Biden stood before the global press last week and said he’d “confirmed pictures of terrorists beheading children”. These comments were in regard to reports claiming that Hamas troops had beheaded 40 kids during the incursions it made into...
US Further Heightens Military Presence, With Plans to Station Land Forces in Australia
One might have expected that this year’s ongoing revelations relating to the United States’ militarisation of this continent might have started to slow down. This is especially as the onslaught began on 14 March with PM Anthony Albanese telling the nation that...
If Not Then, Now: First Nations Justice Must Be Wrought via Treaties Based on Truth
Racism is a foundational pillar of so-called Australia. Following its commencement in 1901, the first act of Australian parliament was to pass a series of white supremacist laws that together became known as the White Australia Policy. The “fair go” notion...
