Heavy-Handed Climate Arrests: An Interview With Extinction Rebellion Arrestee Lily Campbell
The Spring Rebellion climate demonstration blocked Sydney’s Broadway disrupting business as usual on Monday afternoon for over an hour. And, unsurprisingly, the NSW Police Public Order and Riot Squad was called in. Around 500 Extinction Rebellion (XR) protesters were gathered...
Suing Police Over Unlawful Strip Search: An Interview With Luke Moore
Luke Moore was exiting Goulburn’s Hibernian Hotel on a Saturday evening, when a group of four police officers asked to speak with him. After conducting an initial pat down search that found nothing, the officers went on to strip search...
The Law on Assault Occasioning Actual Bodily Harm
A 22-year old Western Australian man accused of burning a toddler with a cigarette lighter and boiling water has told Perth Magistrates Court the little girl tripped over and poured a pot of boiling noodles on herself. Jaycob Yarran, a...
NSW Police Strip Search Toddler
A 16-month old baby and his 17-year old aunt are taking civil proceedings against the New South Wales Government after police allegedly unlawfully strip searched them last year on a visit to see the toddler’s father in a correctional centre....
Police Are Now Arresting Our Elderly for Protesting
In recent years, both our federal government and state and territory governments have passed sweeping laws to ensure those who speak against them or protest about their activities are silenced and criminalised. These laws come in many forms, imposing lengthy...
Bring Jock Palfreeman Home
Sydney man Jock Palfreeman should be on his way home to Australia, instead he will remain in a Bulgarian immigration detention for at least another two months, awaiting a legal decision on his fate. Parole granted and then suspended Jock...
Sydney’s Rebellion Heats Up: An Interview With Extinction Rebellion’s Elly Baxter
A week-long series of protests calling for effective action on the climate crisis, Spring Rebellion kicked off on Monday. Led by climate activist group Extinction Rebellion, a coordinated series of demonstrations will utilise nonviolent direct action to get the message...
Who Does Scott Morrison Represent, Anyway?
Around 350,000 Australians took to the streets in the nation’s major cities and centres on 20 September, as part of the global School Strike for Climate, to demand that the Morrison government take action on the climate emergency and begin...
CBA Faces Criminal Charges for ‘Hawking’
The Commonwealth Bank is facing 87 criminal charges relating to the sale of life insurance policies through its insurance arm, CommInsure. The charges relate to practices and sale techniques used in 2014, and the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC)...
NSW Government’s Relentless Attack on Our Right to Protest
The language used by NSW agriculture minister Adam Marshall as he introduced the Right to Farm Bill 2019 was somewhat suspect when he asserted that the legislation would “enshrine in law a farmer’s right to farm their land, to grow...
