“I Just Can’t Believe It, Darling”: Gina Minehard on Being Raided by VicPol Terrorism Officers
Victoria police counterterrorism officers raided four activists at around 7 am on 17 April 2026, as the women were allegedly connected to a 5-minute-long theatrical stunt outside the US consulate in Naarm-Melbourne on 26 March, which involved the pouring of...
“Just Too Absurd”: Socialist Alliance’s Alex Bainbridge on His Arrest for Using a Political Slogan
Twenty protesters were arrested by Queensland police at the Not Our Law rally in Magan-djin-Brisbane on 18 April 2026, for the crime of either displaying or speaking the currently illegal phrase “From the River to the Sea”. The outcome was...
Melbourne Council Is Roughing Up Rough Sleepers: Interview with HPUV’s Patrick “Spike” Chiappalone
The City of Melbourne is employing Community Safety Officers (CSOs) to assist Local Law Officers in their duties whilst they patrol the council’s local government area, and these unarmed officers are being encouraged not to be too afraid to apply...
Social Media Giants are Deleting Lifesaving Drug Warnings: Interview with AIVL’s Molly Howes
Social media companies, like Meta and TikTok, have been removing the drug warning alerts that local harm reduction organisations have been posting on their social media pages, despite the fact that these are warnings about bad batches of illicit substances,...
Escalation in Tactics, as VicPol Raid Nonviolent Zelda8 Protesters: Interview with WACA
Victoria Police Port (Public Order Response Team) officers conducted eight raids upon properties around Naarm-Melbourne early morning on Friday, 27 March 2026, in order to apprehend eight women, who’d taken part in a nonviolent protest action involving the statue of...
Ignoring Local Muslim Concerns: Mukhlis Mah on the Heckling of the PM at Lakemba Mosque
Despite it being announced the night prior that they would be in attendance, when prime minister Anthony Albanese and home affairs minister Tony Burke turned up at Lakemba Mosque during the end of Ramadan Eid celebration last Friday, 20 March...
“A Reactionary, Pro-Big Business, Racist Party”: Victorian Socialists Call Out Hanson’s One Nation
On Saturday, 21 March 2026, members of Victorian Socialists went out to speak with communities across four locations in Naarm-Melbourne. And the discussions they engaged in with local community members revolved around why there is a growing need for a...
“Actively Increasing the Divide”: NSWCCL’s Timothy Roberts on the Lack of Apology for Police Violence
The state of New South Wales set 3,000 police officers onto a crowd of 20,000 pro-Palestinians supporters, as they rallied against the official visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog on Gadigal land at Sydney Town Hall. However, the state’s premier...
Join the National Walk for Truth: Travis Lovett on the Need for a National Truth-Telling Process
Kerrupmara, Gunditjmara and Boandik man Travis Lovett is walking from Naarm-Melbourne to Ngunnawal land in Canberra from 19 April to 27 May 2026, and he’s inviting everyone on the continent to join him. As he explains, this is a walk...
The State Set the Scene for Police Brutality: NSWCCL President Timothy Roberts on the Herzog Rally
The 9 February 2026 NSW police assault upon the 20,000 pro-Palestinian Sydneysiders gathered to peacefully protest the official visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog continues to leave much of the constituency stunned. The shock of witnessing NSW police liberally applying...
