Dan’s Dictatorship: Victorian Premier May Have Lied About Curfew Advice
Both the Victorian Police Commissioner and the Victorian Chief Health Officer have embarrassed Premier Daniel Andrews this week by admitting on separate occasions to national media that the nightly curfews which have Melburnians locked in their homes between the hours...
Australia Looks the Other Way, as Assange Is Hung Out to Dry
Right now, the substantial extradition hearings involving the US government request that the UK hand over publisher and journalist Julian Assange are underway. The Wikileaks founder has been held in British custody at London’s Belmarsh prison since April 2019. The...
Morrison and Murdoch Scrambled to Hide the Climate Cause of the Bushfires
Most Australians will remember that our supreme leader Scott Morrison disappeared for a Hawaiian holiday last summer as the nation grappled with bushfires on a scale that the government was unprepared for, despite long-term warnings coming from experts. As Greenpeace’s...
Dutton Is Turfing Vulnerable Refugees Out Onto the Street Mid-Pandemic
Dutton and his new acting henchman Alan Tudge have come to the decision that the current pandemic and downturn in the economic climate is a good time to start evicting asylum seekers and refugees out of their long-term accommodation, and...
Berejiklian Short-Sighted on Uranium: An Interview With Uranium Free NSW’s Natalie Wasley
The O’Farrell government attempted to end the state ban on uranium mining and exploration in the early years of last decade. And while it succeeded in lifting the 26 year moratorium on exploring, due to pushback, the ban on mining...
Restore the Right to Protest: An Interview With Democracy Is Essential’s Vinil Kumar
Although there’s been no major announcement, the Berejiklian government has implemented a ban on outdoor protests of more than 20 people. And NSW police has been enforcing this rather underhanded prohibition since late July. After unsuccessfully attempting to have a...
Queensland to Force Priests to Report Child Sexual Abuse
Queensland has just passed news law which makes it a crime for priests to fail to report incidents of child sexual abuse. Under the new laws, religious institutions and their members are no longer able to use the sanctity of...
Criminologists Call for Divestment in Police and Prisons to End First Nations Injustice
The footage of George Floyd being killed by Minneapolis police on 25 May, struck a chord with the global community, as it laid bare the heightened racism in the US system, as well as that the institution of police has...
NSW Police Officer Charged With Possessing Child Abuse Material
A 42-year old police officer based in Coffs Harbour in northern New South Wales has been charged with two counts of possessing child abuse material. Following an investigation by the New South Wales Police Force Professional Standards Command (PSC), detectives...
The Offence of Serious Animal Cruelty in New South Wales
Domestic Violence is on the rise in Australia, along with trends globally as a result of increased stress, anxiety and financial hardship from Covid-19. Both here and around the world, those working at the front line of domestic, family and...
