Victoria Cuts Down Yet Another Sacred Djab Wurrung Tree: Interview with Yaraan Couzens Bundle
Victorian Planning workers cut down another of the sacred Djab Wurrung trees on 19 October 2026. The tree was felled after Victoria police dispersed a group of Djab Wurrung people and their allies, who were onsite to stop the destruction....
Racist Border Force Raids on Sex Worker Workplaces Are Increasing: Interview Scarlet Alliance
In a recent social media post, Scarlet Alliance highlighted that there were 103 raids on sex worker workplaces conducted by the Australian Border Force over the 12 months to June 2026. The national peak body representing sex workers explained that...
Australia Continues to Shackle First Nations Adults and Youths to Hospital Beds
Right now, there is a 16-year-old Aboriginal girl in the state of Western Australia shackled to a hospital bed by the authorities because she is in the custody of corrections. And this means that the settler colonial state of Australia...
Substantial Video Evidence Supports Assertion that Police Brutalised Anti-Herzog Protesters
Despite delays to the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission’s public hearings into Operation Makalu,the first hearing went ahead on the 19 October 2026. This inquiry is into the alleged misconduct of NSW police at the 9 February 2026 protest against Israeli...
Permanent NSW Wanding Laws Give Police More Power to Harass Members of the Public
The Minns government last week made permanent 2024-enacted temporary wanding laws, which empower New South Wales police officers to randomly approach anyone in a declared zone to run a handheld metal detector over the outside of their clothing. And this...
Requiring Government Permission to Protest Is an Erosion of the Fundamental Right
The Australian Democracy Network and Deakin University have released a joint report into the various protest permission frameworks operating in local states and territories, such as the Form 1 process in New South Wales, and the study found that they...
Calls to Remove Religious Schools Exemptions Against LGBTIQA+ Students and Teachers Are Back
Independent MP Allegra Spender has introduced laws to repeal the exemptions that permit religious schools to deny entrance to or to remove teachers, students and contractors from their institutions, due to their diverse sexualities and genders. This proposal originally took...
The NSW Offence of Possess Equipment to Produce Identification Information
New South Wales Police Financial Crimes Squad detectives charged two men with four counts each of possess equipment to produce identification information on Tuesday, 13 October 2026, following Strike Force Dawport being established in April 2026, to investigate a rise...
Australia’s Top Cop’s Priorities: AI Policing, Foreign Interferers and the Dural Caravan Hoaxer
AFP commissioner Krissy Barrett last week gave multiple interviews to mainstream media outlets to mark her one-year anniversary and raise key priorities for the law enforcement agency. The top cop is continuing to prioritise the capture of the mastermind behind...
Two Men Charged with Sexually Assaulting Three Women Over 7 Years
The New South Wales Police Force reports that a second man has been charged over allegations of sexually abusing three women on the Central Coast over a seven-year period. Detectives attached to Tuggerah Lakes Police District established Strike Force Zetter...
