Stop Cooking the River: SCRAP’s Paddy Gibson on Preventing the Cook River Datacentre
Goolay’yari, or the Cooks River, has weaved its way across Gadigal, Wangal, Bidjigal and Gamegal land for centuries, and today, it’s nestled between Sydney’s inner west suburbs. Indeed, developers Stockland and John Boyd Properties consider the site so ideal, that...
“Bad Faith Lawmaking” in the NT: Justice Not Jails on the CLP Crackdown on Indigenous Youth
Since taking power in the Northern Territory in August 2024, the Country Liberal Finocchiaro government has been progressing a law-and-order drive, with a focus on youth crime. And this drive, which started at apace, has only been accelerating. And to...
Disrupting the Largest Ever Coal Mine Extension Presser: Interview with Rising Tide’s Zack Schofield
Having watched in horror the mudslide tsunami crashing down a valley from Tibet into Nepal on 26 August 2026, it was quite a shock to read the subject line of NSW Greens MLC Sue Higginson’s 30 September email that read,...
Australia to Be a Frontline in US War on China, Warns Australian Greens Leader David Shoebridge
Australian Greens leader David Shoebridge addressed the recent anti-AUKUS peace rally that took place on Gadigal land before Sydney Town Hall. And as he did, he mentioned that a US general had recently suggested that the key aspect to AUKUS...
“A US Military Outpost”: WA Greens MLC Sophie McNeill on Land Forces and AUKUS
Recent months have seen Western Australian Greens MLC Sophie McNeill persistently raising ire in WA parliament over the Cook Labor government not only moving to host the Land Forces 2026 weapons festival, but further, to rollout a tailormade security regime...
Resisting Rising Militarism: WA Anti-War Collective Organisers on Protesting Land Forces 2026
The biannual Land Forces International Land Defence Exposition is about to take place once again. And this year, the nation’s largest weapons festival of its kind, will be taking place on Noongar land at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre...
New Police Phone Scanning Law Could Target Protesters: Interview NSWCCL’s Timothy Roberts
New South Wales parliament is reconvening for its spring session on Tuesday, 15 September 2026, and before it is the Crimes and Other Legislation Amendment (Further Organised Crimes Reforms) Bill 2026, which the NSW Council for Civil Liberties has warned...
“Railroading Community Opposition”: Greens MLC Abigail Boyd on the Emerging Datacentre Crisis
There is a datacentre crisis emerging in this state, as overseas big tech interests are racing down under to build facilities to store foreign owned data. However, most Australians haven’t got a clue about why this is happening and have...
“Another Site for Resistance”: Mparntwe for Falastin Activists on Their Pine Gap Blockade Prosecution
The Mparntwe for Falastin activists arrested as part of the 9 October 2025 blockade of the road into US spy base Pine Gap are about to appear in court. Their direct action aimed at calling out the Pine Gap intel...
Breaking the Wall of Silence: Shoebridge on the Inaugural International Parliamentarians for West Papua Meet in Canberra
Australian Greens Senator David Shoebridge hosted the inaugural meeting of the Australian chapter of International Parliamentarians for West Papua on Ngunnawal and Ngambri land in Australian Parliament House in Canberra on 17 August 2026, with a delegation present that included...
