Dristi Nepal’s Parina Subba Limbu on the Rights of Women Who Use Drugs
Established in 2006, Dristi Nepal is a peer-led harm reduction organisation for women who use drugs, those living with HIV and sex workers. Since April 2018, the organisation has been running a needle and syringe program for women who inject drugs in...
Australia’s Focus on Punishing Rather Than Diverting Youths is Counter-Productive
A Queensland Children’s Court recently heard that a girl who was arrested in Innisfail in Queensland was not able to be transferred to Cleveland Youth Detention Centre in Townsville as the centre was at capacity and could not accept any...
Kids Continue to be Locked-Up with Hardened Adult Criminals in Queensland
In early May 2019, the ABC’s Four Corners Program aired The Watch House Files - an expose of Queensland’s practise of detaining children as young as ten years old with hardened and often dangerous adult prisoners in the state’s police...
Labor Says “F#*K Off We’re Full” to Medevac Refugees, After a Decade of Torture
The Liberal Nationals government tortured and imprisoned thousands of the planet’s most desperate people in facilities built on the soil of poorer nations for years because they arrived in Australian waters by boat seeking asylum, which is completely legal under...
Privacy Watchdog and Media Regulator Launch Investigations into Optus
Many Australians feel that large corporations and their executives have gotten away with flouting the law without sufficient consequences for far too long. And the recent Optus data breach has certainly added to that sentiment - with 10 million current...
Failing to Stop and Assist After an Impact Causing Injury, GBH or Death in NSW
A teenager has been charged with a string of driving offences following a car crash in Wollongong that police believe caused the death of a 12-year old boy. According to police, the 17-year old male was driving a stolen Holden...
Victoria Police Set to Become Less Accountable Than Ever
The Police Accountability Project (PAP) in Victoria has had to severely cut its services, due to a lack of funding. The project has, until recently, been servicing about 400 people a year, but now, due to funding shortfalls and future...
NSW Labor Considers Revoking Draconian Anti-Protest Laws
Another wave of extreme rainfall and flooding is only just beginning in NSW. This seems inconceivable after the deluge of March was already repeated in July. Yet, NSW premier Dominic Perrottet’s “one-in-a-thousand-year” flood event is now happening for a third time...
Beyond the Material: Capturing Thai Spirituality in Photos
Thailand is renowned for its Buddhism. With around 95 percent of the population adherents, temples, or wats, pepper the landscape, and bright, orange-robed monks stroll the streets. There are two strains of Buddhism: Theravada and Mahayana. In Thailand, the former is practiced....
Diplomacy is Needed to Prevent the Possibility of World War III
Joe Biden warned last week that the world is the closest it’s been to nuclear war in the last 60 years. The US president made these remarks in relation to Russian head of state Vladimir Putin having repeatedly made threats to...
