“A Potential Discrimination Act”: An Interview With Former High Court Justice Michael Kirby
Right now, transgender people in Japan are forced to undertake gender reassignment surgery in order to change the sex on their identity documents. And while some wish to, others don’t want to undergo the procedure, which entails sterilisation. In a...
In Solidarity With Julian: An Interview With People for Assange’s Michelle Wood
There’s an Australian citizen of ailing health currently being detained overseas, who until very recently had been held in prolonged solitary confinement. His liberty has been withdrawn by one of this nation’s closest allies and yet, our government has remained...
Australian-Born Infants in Offshore Detention: An Interview With Biloela Advocate Angela Fredericks
The prime minister announced towards the end of last month that due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, citizens and residents returning to Australia from China would be sent to the recently reopened Christmas Island detention facility for a two...
Kill the Religious Privilege Bill: An Interview With Satanic Australia’s James Sutekh
The implications of the prime minister’s Religious Discrimination Bill, and its accompanying legislation, are so dire that people are turning to the Devil. At three recent Community Action for Rainbow Rights (CARR) rallies held against what’s been dubbed the Bigot’s...
“First Nations People Are Bearing the Brunt”: An Interview With Water Activist Bruce Shillingsworth
Unprecedented is a word that many have applied to the weather conditions this continent has faced over the 2019-20 summer season. It’s been used to refer to the high temperatures. It’s described the scope of the water crisis along the...
Federal ICAC Now: An Interview With Wake the F%cK Up Australia’s Alex Devantier
As thousands of climate protesters gathered out the front of Parliament House in Canberra this week, hovering above them was a 6-metre-high bespectacled effigy of a familiar Australian figure that’s been dubbed Bullshit Boy. As one gazes upon this image...
Tell the Truth: An Interview With the People’s Climate Assembly’s John Wurcker
The People’s Climate Assembly (PCA) is an alliance of action groups that have joined forces to stand against the continued climate denialism that the Liberal Nationals government has been propagating over the last decade. And to coincide with the first...
“They Lie All the Time”: An Interview With the News Corp Lie-In’s Brad Pedersen
As unprecedented bushfires raged across NSW in early January, and the furore over the climate denial stance of government and its mainstream media backers was rising, a photo of Sydneysider Brad Pedersen lying down out the front of the Sydney...
“A Disaster of Water Privatisation”: An Interview With Water for Rivers’ Tracey Carpenter
South Eastern Australia is facing its worst water crisis in living memory. In NSW, rivers that no one remembers having run dry in the past, have ceased to flow. And there are dozens of regional towns staring down the barrel...
It’s Now Legal to Smoke Cannabis in Australia’s Capital: An Interview With HEMP’s Michael Balderstone
As of today, 31 January 2020, it’s legal to smoke a joint in your lounge room in Canberra. Possessing up to 50 grams for personal use is absolutely nothing to worry about. And you can grow up to two plants...
