Should Businesses Be Forced to Police Covid Orders?
With Greater Sydney set to open up in the coming weeks, the NSW Government proposes to introduce a ‘vaccine passport’ which will enable entry into a range of venues including restaurants, bars and sporting events for the vaccinated, and leave...
The AUKUS Pact: Morrison Secretly Binds the Nation to a US War on China
The autocratic Morrison government dropped a bombshell on the Australian public on Thursday, as it unveiled that the nation is dramatically stepping up its war footing against China in alliance with the UK and the US. And we’re going to...
Christian Porter Pressured to Reveal Who Paid His Legal Costs
Pressure mounts for the nation’s former chief law officer, Christian Porter, to reveal information about the ‘blind trust’ used to pay his legal fees. Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he is seeking legal advice on how to handle the fact...
“Facing Another Genocide”: Government COVID Neglect of First Nations
The federal and state governments of settler colonial Australia have to some extent agreed to open up from extended periods of pandemic lockdowns and border closures, when 70 and 80 percent adult COVID-19 vaccine rates have been met. With this...
Canberra Abandons West Papua at Jakarta War Talks: An Interview With AWPA’s Joe Collins
Foreign affairs minister Marise Payne and defence minister Peter Dutton set off last week on a “let’s get ready for war with China” diplomatic tour, with the first stop being Jakarta, where they met with their local Indonesian counterparts. The...
Berejiklian Abandons NSW as the Public Health Crisis Is About to Peak
At the end of the twelfth week of the Greater Sydney lockdown - a week that ended with the highest number of daily COVID-19 cases ever seen, as well as the release of a divisive roadmap to open up the...
What Are the Criteria for Obtaining a COVID-19 Medical Exemption in NSW?
New South Wales doctors have had their hands tied by the medical regulators and governments when it comes to granting exemptions for Covid-19 Vaccines. Despite the avalanche of people applying for vaccination exemptions to enable them to enjoy the ‘freedoms’...
“Moving Too Slow”: Bruce Shillingsworth on the COVID Response in First Nations Towns
Broken Hill-based Maari Ma Aboriginal Health Corporation wrote to the federal government in March 2020 to warn about the potential for COVID-19 to wreak havoc within First Nations communities in north western NSW and the need for emergency plans to...
Constitutional Challenge Launched Against WA’s Discriminatory Indefinite Detention Laws
The McGowan government passed legislation establishing a new high risk offenders regime in the state of Western Australia in June last year. The laws enable the WA Supreme Court to order inmates who’ve been convicted of a serious crime to...
NSW Government Cashes in on COVID-19 Fines
New South Wales police officers have issued a whopping 22,000 fines, or nearly 1000 fines every day, since the launch of Operation Stay at Home in mid-August 2021, when the entire state was put into lockdown. Figures released this week...
