One Nation Senator Referred to High Court
Australian attorney-general George Brandis announced on Wednesday that the Coalition plans to refer One Nation senator Rod Culleton to a High Court probe on Monday. The investigation will consider whether the Western Australian senator was eligible to be elected to...
Guy Fawkes, Anonymous and the Million Mask March
In more than 700 locations around the world, people gathered this past Saturday the 5th of November in a protest organised by social movement ‘Anonymous’. Most wore Guy Fawkes masks as a symbol of standing up against oppression. The Guy...
Prison is the Punishment. Not a Place for Further Punishment
Last week, we reported on the case of Bassam Hamzy, founder of Brothers 4 Life and convicted murderer, who is currently incarcerated at Goulburn’s “Supermax” prison. Hamzy is prohibited from speaking Arabic in gaol. Muslim inmates are also barred from...
Should it be legal to insult and offend people due to their race?
Many hailed Malcolm Turnbull as progressive when he took over as Liberal party leader in September last year. But over recent days, the Australian Prime Minister has shown that his views aren’t that different from those of his predecessor, Tony...
Cambodian Children’s Fund and Chab Dai: Helping Impoverished Kids
Cambodia is one of south-east Asia’s most impoverished countries. The nation still recovering from the effects of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, during which dictator Pol Pot ordered the deaths of hundreds of thousands of his own people. Despite their...
Australia Has Started Microchipping People
In 1946, a senior executive at film studio 20th Century Fox famously predicted that television wouldn’t take off. “People will soon get tired of staring into a plywood box every night,” he thought. Then in the late 1970s, as computers...
Casino Mike Cops a Social Media Battering
NSW premier Mike Baird is a “new breed of urban redneck,” according to one of over 4,500 Facebook users that have commented on a post published on his social media page on Sunday morning. The “obnoxious” post featured a photo...
Queensland Moves Towards a Bill of Rights
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced the state will be moving towards a human rights charter, with a view to creating a bill of rights. The Labor Party leader did not explain the finer points of the proposal, but said...
Mullet Man Sues for Defamation
A western Sydney teenager whose photo went viral is suing several media outlets for defamation. Ali Mosslmani, known as Ziggy, was photographed at a friend’s 18th birthday last year and was soon made into a meme reproduced by the Daily...
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Inmates with Mental Health Conditions
Recent decades have seen a growing recognition of the need to provide support services to those suffering from mental health conditions. Sadly, prison inmates are often left out of the discussion, despite rates of mental illness amongst those behind bars...
