Vale Lanz Priestley: The Mayor of Martin Place
“When you come across a situation and you look and think, somebody should do something about this,” Lanz Priestley once said, “remember, you are somebody.” And anyone who knew the unofficial Mayor of Martin Place is well aware that he...
Even With the Leaked Texts, Macron Was Right, Morrison Is a Liar
At the G20 summit in Rome last weekend, an Australian reporter asked president Emmanuel Macron whether he thought prime minister Scott Morrison had lied to him in relation to pulling out of a $90 billion submarine deal. And the French...
Want to Keep Your Jobs and ‘Freedoms’? Get the COVID-19 Booster Shot
For months, the return of ‘freedoms’ to New South Wales residents has been linked to vaccination rate - which started at 70% first shot for adults, moved to 70% double-vaccinated for adults, then 70% double-vaccinated for those 16 years and...
Calls to Depopulate the NSW Prison System, as COVID Claims It First Inmate
NSW Health announced on Monday that the first COVID casualty relating to the Parklea Correctional Centre virus outbreak had occurred, as an unvaccinated man in his 60s, who had underlying health conditions, died at Concord Hospital due to an infection acquired...
Surveillance State Grows Under the Cover of COVID
Just quietly over the past couple of months, with the rest of Australia conveniently distracted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Government has introduced draft legislation with a view to creating what it calls a ‘trusted digital identity’. Perhaps with...
Legalising Hemp Leaf Foods: An Interview With Industry Pioneer Andrew Kavasilas
These days, if you walk down the aisles of any Australian supermarket, whether it be a major outlet or a smaller local store, you’ll come across hempseed food products. And they’ll usually be found in the health food section, as...
Climate Action, Not Global Cop Out: An Interview With Workers for Climate Action’s Caitlin Doyle-Markwick
Scott Morrison just addressed the COP26 in Glasgow. And true to form, the PM blew unintelligible hot air at the crowd attending “the last chance saloon” for climate action, as he ticked the required seen-to-be-doing-something box and maintained business as...
As Australia Cops Out at COP26, Extinction Rebellion Targets Sydney Opera House
“The COP process has failed. Twenty-fifty is too late,” Extinction Rebellion organiser and spokesperson Larissa Payne told those gathered at the entrance to Sydney Opera House at 11 am on Monday morning. “This is climate code red for humanity.” At...
Allocating Funds to Win Seats: Pork Barrelling is Just Politics, says Gladys
‘We throw money at seats to keep them’. During Gladys Berejiklian’s final day of providing testimony before the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption, the practice of ‘pork barrelling’ was front and centre. ICAC is investigating whether the former...
COVID-19 Vaccines: Raising Bars, Booster Shots and Widening the ‘Freedom’ Gap
Sweeping changes to the New South Wales ‘roadmap’ out of the pandemic, announced today, have devastated thousands of New South Wales people who remain unvaccinated. The previous information that residents who are not double-vaccinated would no longer be treated like...
