Despite Rising Rights Awareness, Programs of Cultural Genocide Continue Globally
Around 750,000 Rohingya’s fled across the border from their homelands in Myanmar into neighbouring Bangladesh in the last months of 2017 due to a series of attacks on their communities by government forces. Known locally as the Tatmadaw, the Myanmar...
Political Prejudice Shapes Perceptions of Crime
The political period in which you ‘came of age’ drastically influences your perception of crime decades later, according to a new study in the British Journal of Criminology. While many people alter their perception of crime over time, they are...
Break the Silence: Acknowledge the Frontier Wars
On the first of this month, prime minister Scott Morrison announced the government would be funding a $498 million redevelopment of the Australian War Memorial (AWM), which would include new exhibits acknowledging recent conflicts, such as Afghanistan and the Solomon...
Parking Rules to be Relaxed in NSW
The New South Wales government has announced that a “saving grace period” will be introduced for parking bays which issue physical tickets. The new rules are scheduled to apply from 31 January 2019, and enable motorists parked in a paid...
NSW Police Association Demands Thousands More Officers
Earlier this year, the Police Association of NSW demanded 2,500 extra officers which it claimed was necessary to avoid an “epidemic” of violence. The Association says its members are at a “breaking point”, warning that a failure to dramatically increase...
Test Pills & Save Lives: An Interview With Australian Greens Leader Richard Di Natale
This year’s music festival season began with an avoidable tragedy, as two young Australians died after taking drugs at Sydney’s Defqon.1 festival in September. The saturation policing and drug detection dogs at the event failed to save their lives. A pill...
Man Stabbed While Allegedly Saving 7-Year Old Girl from Sexual Assault
It has been reported that a 46-year old man was stabbed in the abdomen and neck during an altercation which ensued when he allegedly confronted a 54-year old man who was attempting to sexually assault a 7-year old girl in a...
Sydney Police Officer Pleads Guilty to “Vile, Cowardly and Intolerable” Threats
Senior Constable Sean Daniel Murphy, a 57-year-old officer with 30 years in the NSW Police Force and two awards for bravery to his name, has pleaded guilty to ‘using a carriage service to menace, harass or offend’ after calling federal...
Restoring Tibet’s Independence: An Interview With TYC’s Tsewang Dolma
A Tibetan man set himself on fire on 4 November in a peaceful protest in the eastern Tibetan region of Ngawa. The death of 23-year-old Dorbe brings the total number of Tibetans that have self-immolated in order to draw attention to...
Prohibition Causes the Harm: An Interview With Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform
There’s a rising awareness that the century-old system of drug prohibition is failing. It’s evident in the global moves to legalise cannabis, the internationally-lauded Portuguese drug decriminalisation model and the widespread calls to start treating drug use as a health issue, not...
