Climate Activists Bring Sydney Traffic to a Standstill
On Friday morning, the prime minister apologised to the nation for going on holiday whilst half the country was burning and promised he’d return. However, “fair go” Scomo forgot to mention that he was already here. At 7.15 am on...
Australians Are Losing Their Basic Freedoms, Global Monitor Warns
In the Pacific region over 2019, “the most alarming deterioration in civic space is occurring in Australia” stated the CIVICUS Monitor in a early December press release. Indeed, our country has been downgraded from a classification of an “open” society,...
NSW Justice Amendment Package Part 3: Police Given Greater Powers to Access Personal Information Without a Warrant
As the holiday period drew nearer, the NSW attorney general thought he’d deliver an amendment bill that didn’t simply fill the stocking of one Act that needed changing. Instead, with festive cheer, Mark Speakman delivered one that, in his words,...
Thousands of Drivers Allegedly Caught by Mobile Phone Detection Cameras
Just over a week ago, the New South Wales Government introduced new mobile phone detection cameras across the state. During that period, more than 3,000 drivers have allegedly been caught illegally using their phones while driving. Around 45 fixed and...
Aussies Launch Petition to Oust Morrison
More than 47,000 Australians have signed a petition in recent weeks, calling on the Governor General to dissolve parliament. The change.org petition asserts that the federal government has exhibited a ‘disregard’ for the rules governing the conduct of its own...
“The Coal Industry is Dead”: An Interview With Miner Turned Activist Micah Weekes
At around 6 am on 13 September last year, anti-coal protester Micah Weekes climbed on top of a 13,000 tonne freight train on Sandgate Bridge, Newcastle, with the aim of preventing it and other coal trains from making it to...
Empowering First Nations Kids to Hold Police Accountable: An Interview With ALS’ Jeremy Styles
NSW authorities had 237 youths detained in state juvenile justice centres in September this year, according to NSW Bureau of Crimes Statistics and Research figures. And of these young inmates, 105 were First Nations youths, which accounts for 44 percent...
The Wild Horses Sting? Police Breath and Drug Test Patrons Evacuating Festival
At around 9.30 am on Monday 9 December, word went around punters camped out at the Wild Horses festival in Victoria’s Marysville that an announcement had been made regarding an alleged police order that the site be immediately evacuated due...
The Law, Defences and Penalties for Larceny as a Clerk or Servant in NSW
It has been alleged that a bank employee in the US city of Charlotte, North Carolina stole US$88,000 (approx. AUD$128,000) from the bank’s vault between July and August, 2019, and flaunted his new-found wealth on several social media posts. Arlando...
Get Your Priorities Right, Scott Morrison
While the eastern side of the country was burning like never before, some of the old boys’ club were sitting in the backroom of parliament house inhaling some refined pure white Christian prejudice in legislative form. It was the best...
