“A Watershed Moment for Drug Policy”: Dr David Caldicott on the ACT Fixed Pill Testing Site
The greenlighting of a six-months trial of a fixed pill testing site in Australia’s capital is a “watershed moment” in terms of how the nation treats illicit substances, according to Dr David Caldicott, a long-term advocate for the nationwide rollout of...
Authorities Continue Crackdown on Climate Activism With Extralegal NSW Police Raid
NSW authorities continue their crackdown on climate protests, as those raising the alarm about the climate emergency escalate their response to the unwillingness of those holding the reins of government to take adequate action in regard to mounting crisis. Blockade...
Bungled Unwarranted Police Stakeout Results in Premature Raid, Says Climate Arrestee Nick Weaver
Last Sunday morning at around 8:30 am, two NSW police officers dressed in camouflage were surveilling a group of climate defenders from some bushes on a property in the town of Colo, northwest of Sydney, when they were spotted by some...
Victorian Government Backtracks on Promise to Decriminalise Public Intoxication
The government headed by Daniel Andrews in Victoria promised to decriminalise the crime of public intoxication following the tragic death of Yorta Yorta woman Tanya Day in 2017, but now says the offence won’t be repealed until at least next...
NSW Considers Medical Cannabis Driving Defence: Interview With Former Magistrate David Heilpern
The Turnbull government legalised medicinal cannabis use in 2016, along with the lawful cultivation, manufacture and distribution of it. But, six years on, and drivers who use the medicine continue to be penalised for having traces of it in their...
Calls for Police Guns Out of First Nations Communities and an End to the Intervention
Karrinjarla Muwajarri-Ceasefire protesters gathered out front of Sydney Town Hall on 18 June, as part of a National Day of Action calling for guns out of remote First Nations communities and an end to the imposed settler colonial police state...
Children Vandalise Detention Centre After Being Subjected to ‘Cruel and Degrading’ Treatment
Australia’s harsh youth detention regime is in the spotlight once again this week, after reports that mistreated children in Banksia Hill juvenile detention centre in Perth damaged around 100 of the 250 cells in the facility. The conduct follows a...
Albanese Must Step Up and Fight for Assange, as UK Greenlights Extradition
UK home secretary Priti Patel has done what those who were aware of her political leanings expected. Last Friday she greenlighted the extradition of Julian Assange, so that the White House can continue its assault on the Australian journalist, who...
The Law, Defences and Penalties for Kidnapping in New South Wales
Two teenagers who lured a Canberra-based businessman via the dating app Grindr to bushland on the New South Wales South Coast have been found not guilty of his murder. Peter Keely’s body was found gagged, bound and battered in bushland...
NSW Police Accused of Covering Up Killing of Mentally Ill Man
In 2019, 40-year old Todd McKenzie was fatally shot by police while he was having a psychotic episode. He was alone and armed with a knife when officers forced their way into his home in Taree on the New South...
