Trump Is Invoking a New Era of Western Colonialism Inspired by Netanyahu
Regardless of which way the votes are cast this weekend, the resulting 48th Australian parliament is not likely to alter our strong ties to the US, and especially our military ones, which means we’ll remain a vassal of a superpower...
Australia’s Arms Exports System Is a Loose Free-for-All: Interview with Renegade Activists Jacob & Mercedes
Australian arms exports became a front and centre issue in October 2023, on outbreak of the Gaza genocide, and regardless of the fact that former Palestine stalwarts PM Anthony Albanese and foreign minister Penny Wong were reimaging the mass murder...
Challenging the Power to Extinguish Protest Across Sydney: Interview with Palestine Action Group’s Josh Lees
The Palestine Action Group launched a legal challenge against one of the new antiprotest laws that the Minns government rushed through New South Wales parliament as part of a package of bills in February 2025, which were said to be...
Federal Politics Doesn’t Need a Neo-Nazi Party, as Canberra Has Enough Far-Right Actors
The neo-Nazi booing of Bunurong elder Uncle Mark Brown, as he was performing Welcome to Country at the dawn service at the Shrine of Remembrance in Naarm-Melbourne on 25 April 2025, Anzac Day, was a deplorable act of racism that...
Murder Trial Underway Over Alleged Mushroom Poisonings
A woman is currently facing a jury trial over allegations that she caused the deaths of three guests and attempted to cause the death another by way of poisoning. The defendant, 50-year old Erin Patterson, is on trial in the...
Jury Nullification: Could Mangione Be Found Not Guilty Despite the Evidence?
The “frightening, well-planned, targeted… [and] cold blooded” killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan on 4 December 2024 and arrest of Luigi Mangione five days later was met with mixed feelings in the United States. Mr Thompson was a...
ICJ to Decide Whether Israel’s Blocking of Humanitarian Aid to Gaza is Unlawful
In the many years leading up to Hamas’ 7 October 2023 attack on Israel, during which almost 1200 Israeli’s were killed, the Israeli state had subjected Palestinians to what Amnesty International describes as “a cruel system of domination and a...
Under Dutton, an Oz MAGA Would Increase Authoritarianism and US Control
Australian radio waves were in a tither on Monday, as the final leaders debate the night before saw potential next PM Peter Dutton unaware of the price of eggs during a cost-of-living crisis. But if that’s the major gripe against...
NSW Government Uses Knife Crime to Justify Wholesale Random Searches and Surveillance
The first day of the NSW Coroners Court Bondi Junction Inquest, which will inquire into the mass stabbing incident that involved 40-year-old white Australian man Joel Cauchi entering the Bondi Junction Westfield shopping mall on 13 April 2024 to commence...
South Australia’s Plan to Seize the Assets of Low-Level Drug Offenders is Counterproductive
As other jurisdictions both in Australia and abroad are seeing the sense in drug law reform, with interventions like pill testing trials in multiple Australian states and territories, the South Australian government has come to the conclusion that the best...
