Most Want Separate Church and State: Sydney Atheists’ Steve Marton on Minns’ Faith Council
The last years of federal Coalition rule were marked by an attempt by prime minister Scott Morrison to advance the religious freedoms debate, in a manner that saw him dress up laws attempting to prioritise Christian liberties over all other, under...
The Right To Silence Across Australian Jurisdictions
The right to silence is not protected by the Australian Constitution, unlike in the United States where is is guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to that nation’s constitution and reflected in what are commonly known as ‘Miranda rights’, also known...
Hiding Australia’s Complicity: Shoebridge on Wong’s Trumpian Denial of Weapons Export Probing
An Israeli-perpetrated genocide has been underway in Gaza for the last two and a half months, which has resulted in around 18,000 Palestinians having been slaughtered. And more than 7,000 of the overwhelmingly civilian dead have been made up of children. The...
“A Sense of Complicity in Genocide”: UniMelb for Palestine’s Dana Alshaer on the Lockheed Martin Partnership
“Why does our university have a partnership with a weapons manufacturer in the first place?” UniMelb for Palestine organising member Dana Alshaer asked Melbourne University vice chancellor Duncan Maskell, which was a recorded confrontation that has since gone viral across social media....
“Literally Black Sites”: Dr Julie Macken on a Royal Commission into Immigration Detention
With the High Court ruling last month that the indefinite detention of unlawful noncitizens in immigration centres is illegal, the resulting release of around 140-odd people from a form of detention without an end or a crime, the Albanese government has...
“The Climate Movement Is Back”: Violet CoCo on XR Taking Over the Streets of Naarm
The word over recent weeks is that the local climate movement is back. The People’s Blockade of the World’s Biggest Coal Port saw 3,000 concerned citizens turn up on 25 November to shut down the Newcastle fossil fuel water passage for...
“For Palestinian Liberation”: Unionists for Palestine’s Erima Dall on the Police Protest Crackdown
As NSW police set upon the 500 nonviolent demonstrators at Port Botany on 21 November with unbridled force, it became apparent that pro-Palestinian protesters are facing criminal charges in the same manner as climate defenders have been over recent years. The...
“Ongoing Nakba. Ongoing Ethnic Cleansing”: APAN’s Noura Mansour on Gazan Atrocities
The wholesale massacre of 2.3 million Palestinians held captive within the borders of the 40-odd kilometre strip of land that is Gaza has continued for over 40 days now. And there are no signs of Israel slowing down its all-out...
Arrested Over Protesting Gaza: Wage Peace’s Margaret Pestorius on the NSW Antiprotest Regime
Friends of protest group Wage Peace converged on Sydney’s King Street Wharf on 6 November, the eve of the three-day long Indo Pacific Naval Expo, to highlight that it’s the arms traders at events such as these that profit from atrocities...
“Ultimate Goal of Genocide”: Palestinian Action Group’s Josh Lees on Israel’s Gaza Massacre
As thousands gathered in major urban centres across every continent over the last weekend, the overwhelming groundswell of global support for the Palestinian people was something we’ve never witnessed before in regard to the apartheid state of Israel and its...
