Police Viciously Assault Naked Boy in Byron Bay
Four NSW police offers are facing a police investigation after dramatic video footage has emerged of them beating a naked 16-year old boy in the world-renowned holiday town of Byron Bay. The video shows the boy crying out for help...
Hands Off Our Charities: An Interview With Pew Charitable Trusts’ Dr Barry Traill
On the same day, the House of Representatives was passing a law to legalise same-sex marriage in Australia, the Turnbull government was introducing a bill before the Senate that will stifle the advocacy work that Australian charities and not-for-profit organisations...
Police Officer’s Gut Instinct Solves Murder Mystery
For the past eight years, Sergeant Gerry Thornton has never swayed from his view that “nothing seemed right” about the 2009 death of Lainie Coldwell in Charleville, south-eastern Queensland. Now, almost a decade after her death, the officer has finally...
Wealth Inequality and the Calls for a Universal Basic Income
The world’s eight richest people have accumulated more wealth than the poorest four billion, an Oxfam report released 12 months ago revealed. And since 2015, the richest 1 percent has owned more than the rest of the globe’s 99 percent. This...
Turnbull Plans for Australia to Become a Top Arms Dealer
The Turnbull government announced last week that it’s decided to invest heavily in the misery of foreigners, while moving down the war economy path. The plan is to ramp up investment in arms exports, with the aim of Australia becoming one...
Victoria Bans Pet Shops from Selling Puppies
In what many are calling a bold and compassionate move, the Victorian government has passed legislation to ban puppy farming in the state. Animal welfare groups see the new legislation as a significant step forward, one which seeks to prevent...
NSW Greyhound Racing Industry Fails to Reform
Greens MP Mehreen Faruqi has obtained figures through freedom of information laws which suggest that the greyhound racing industry has failed to fulfil its undertaking to significantly reduce the euthanasia rates of dogs. The pledge was one of many the...
Defendant Unleashes on Police, Magistrate and Lawyer
It has been reported that just after 6am on 1 February 2018, detectives raided a heavily fortified industrial unit at Northpoint Trade Centre in North Wollongong, suspecting it was in the process of becoming a clubhouse for the Finks Motorcycle...
Fighting for the Right to Die: An Interview with Dr Philip Nitschke
The Victorian parliament passed voluntary assisted dying legislation on November 29 last year. When the new laws come into effect in mid-2019, local residents over the age of 18, who have less than six months to live, and are suffering...
The Ongoing Stolen Generations: An Interview With Grandmothers Against Removals
This February 13 marks ten years since then prime minister Kevin Rudd issued an apology to First Nations peoples, acknowledging the tens of thousands of children who were forcibly removed from their families in what became known as the Stolen...
