Police Claim to Have Identified Medibank Cyber-Criminals
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) claims to have identified the group responsible for the Medibank cyber-attack and subsequent data leaks to the dark web, and is promising the suspects will face the full force of the law. But this is cold...
The Evolution of Responses to Domestic Violence in Modern Society
The term domestic violence commonly refers to abuse by one spouse, or de-facto or intimate partner, against another, but also encompasses such conduct against a person’s child, parent, grandparent or sibling. Historically, such violence has been characterised by verbal, physical...
Australian Government Acknowledges First Nations Sovereignty to Senator Thorpe
“First Nations people have been sovereign people of these lands for thousands and thousands of generations. They - we - are sovereign people,” explained Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe to a panel of Attorney General Department representatives, who’d been skirting around...
COP-OUT-27 Albanese: The Flipside to Morrison on the Pro-Fossil Fuel Coin
COP27, or the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, is currently taking place in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh. And guess who’s not going to make it, our prime minister Anthony Albanese. Why? Because he’s got more important matters...
Queensland Police to Get Random Stop and Search Powers
Subject to limited exceptions such as at airports and during certain events, Australian law enforcement agencies are required to have a suspicion on reasonable grounds that a person has committed, or is committing, an offence, or that other dangerous circumstances...
Thugs in Blue Uniforms: Raptor Squad Raid Party, Assault Students and Trash House
The officers making up Raptor Squad, the formerly known as Strike Force Raptor, have long been known to be a bunch of thugs in blue uniforms, equipped with handguns and tasers, who, for some reason, are permitted to run riot, despite...
Tibetans Storm Delhi’s Chinese Embassy Over COVID Abuses: An Interview With TYC’s Tenzin Dhonden
Seventy three members of the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) stormed the Chinese Embassy in the Indian capital of Delhi on 1 October to demand that Beijing stop using its Zero COVID policy as a means to further repress those living in occupied...
Dr Tim Anderson on His Intellectual Freedom Court Victory and “Slow Genocide” in Palestine
Dr Tim Anderson was victorious on 27 October, after having raised multiple court challenges, which appealed the decision to dismiss him from his position of Sydney University senior lecturer in political economy on the basis of a series of intellectual points...
Capturing Tibetan Culture in Photos as it Flourishes at Nepal’s Boudhanath Stupa
As you fly into Kathmandu airport, you might note at the last minute just before landing, a huge white circular structure with a golden triangular tower adorning it, which soars above all other buildings in the surrounding area. That’s the...
The History of Drug Criminalisation in the Western World
The first importers and suppliers of what are now classed as illegal drugs were not your typical criminals, but a group of nations, called Great Britain, Portugal, France and the United States of America. The Opium war Britain actually started...
