The Morrison Government Is Not Fit for Purpose
The nation can’t lay the blame for the financial blowout it’s facing solely at the feet of Morrison, Frydenberg and Cormann, as this year, the whole planet is suffering through the COVID-19 pandemic, which has blown the cogs off of...
‘Lawyer X’ Likely to be Struck Off for Professional Misconduct
Disgraced criminal defence barrister Nicola Gobbo is likely to be struck of Victoria’s roll of legal practitioners for gross violations of her professional obligations to clients, including breaching client legal privilege, providing legal services in circumstances where there is a...
Ensuring Aboriginal Affordable Housing in Redfern-Waterloo: An Interview With Warren Roberts
As Professor Gary Foley recalls in his history of the Black Power movement in Redfern, the inner city suburb is of particular significance to First Nations people in Warrang-Sydney. It was the centre for the rising Aboriginal rights movement back...
We Will Stop the “Ludicrous” Narrabri Gas Project, Says Knitting Nannas’ Kathy McKenzie
“It’s not a good look loading little old ladies with osteoporosis into paddy wagons.” The NSW Independent Planning Commission (IPC) gave Santos approval to move ahead with its $3.6 billion Narrabri Gas Project on 30 September. The highly opposed plan...
Australia Opposes the Death Penalty, Which is Why We Fund Those Facing It
China’s Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court announced in writing last June that Australian citizen Karm Gilespie has been sentenced to death by firing squad over allegedly trying to smuggle 7.5 kilograms of methamphetamine out of the country on New Year’s Eve...
The Australian Government “Has to Get Involved”: Greg Barns SC on the Plight of Assange
Last week marked the close of evidence in the current proceedings involving Julian Assange. The United States is attempting to have the Australian journalist and publisher extradited from the UK, under the UK-US Extradition Treaty. This is somewhat suspect as...
The People Win: Dutton Won’t Be Removing Refugee Detainees’ Phones
A significant victory was claimed by the Australian campaign to uphold the rights of wrongly detained refugees in this country, when Senator Jacqui Lambie announced last Friday that she’ll be voting against depriving immigration detainees of contact with the outside...
Man Sent to Prison for Attacking Pregnant Woman
43-year old Stipe Lozina was recorded by CCTV cameras in November 2019 asking 31-year old Muslim woman Rana Elasmar for change in a Parramatta café, before making derogatory comments about her religion. He then leapt across the table and punched...
Veronica Baxter’s Death in Custody: A Trans Woman Neglected in a Male Prison
NSW police raided the Redfern apartment of Veronica Baxter on 10 March 2009, arresting and charging her with several counts of drug supply. The 34-year-old First Nations transgender woman then appeared in Central Local Court, where she was refused bail...
Victorian Government Faces Court Over Lockdowns
The Victorian State Government is facing a number of court battles over the curfew and lockdowns imposed during stage four public health restrictions. A cafe owner has commenced civil proceedings against the state government on the basis that the curfew,...
