With McBride and Boyle Fried, Dreyfus Commits to Whistleblower Protections
Federal attorney general Mark Dreyfus delivered the keynote speech at the Australian Public Sector Anti-Corruption Conference in Sydney on Wednesday, in which he promised to introduce a bill to “make priority amendments” to the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013, by the...
Witch-Hunting Is Gender-Based Violence: Talking Women’s Rights With India’s North East Network
Witch-hunting is a form of communal violence that continues in some parts of the world, including the state of Assam in Northeast India. It almost always targets women, can act as punishment for tragedies with no direct relation to the...
Calls for Inquiry Into Illegal Use of Strip Searches and Efficacy of Drug Dog Operations
A sizable number of Sydneysiders know the experience all too well: it’s early Friday evening, you’ve left work for the week and made your way down to the local, and as you’re sinking a few with some friends, some jokers...
A-G Won’t Explain How ‘The Voice’ Will Affect Acknowledged First Nations Sovereignty
Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe has been repeatedly putting to the government, whether First Nations recognition in the Constitution, along with the insertion of an advisory body with no guaranteed authority, will affect Indigenous sovereignty. The government and the media have been...
Indian Trade Unions Protest in Kolkata Over Teachers Recruitment Scam: In Photos
A coalition of Indian trade unions marched through Kolkata on 1 November 2022 from the Esplanade Tram Depot through to Calcutta University, expressing their solidarity with 500-odd former students who passed the Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET) in 2014 but were...
A Photographic Deliberation Upon Kolkata’s Controversial Hand-Pulled Rickshaws
While NSW remains tightly regulated in terms of transportation, even outlawing e-Scooters on roads and road-related areas, there are a range of options overseas. Kolkata’s hand-pulled rickshaws are something of an institution in the city of joy. Known in Bengali...
“In India, We’re All Advocates”: Photographs of the Legal System in Guwahati, Assam
Lawyers are called ‘advocates’ in India, they’re called ‘attorneys’ in the US, and so-called ‘solicitors’ in Australia are now in the courts daily, so why does there remain a distinction between ‘solicitors’ and ‘barristers’. Sydney Criminal Lawyers bumped into a...
Australian Government Acknowledges First Nations Sovereignty to Senator Thorpe
“First Nations people have been sovereign people of these lands for thousands and thousands of generations. They - we - are sovereign people,” explained Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe to a panel of Attorney General Department representatives, who’d been skirting around...
COP-OUT-27 Albanese: The Flipside to Morrison on the Pro-Fossil Fuel Coin
COP27, or the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, is currently taking place in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh. And guess who’s not going to make it, our prime minister Anthony Albanese. Why? Because he’s got more important matters...
Thugs in Blue Uniforms: Raptor Squad Raid Party, Assault Students and Trash House
The officers making up Raptor Squad, the formerly known as Strike Force Raptor, have long been known to be a bunch of thugs in blue uniforms, equipped with handguns and tasers, who, for some reason, are permitted to run riot, despite...
