“Direct Action Is Serious and Dangerous Work”: Violet Coco on the Whose Future Mobilisations
“The earth is not dying. It is being murdered,” read the banner hanging off the side of the house belonging to the chief executive officer of Viva Energy located on Boon Wurrung land in the south of Melbourne. The activists...
Pine Gap Protest Activists Face Court Over Highlighting US Base’s Role in Gaza Genocide
Peace activists Carmen Escobar Robinson and Tommy Walker are set to appear in Alice Springs Local Court again on 23 and 24 September 2025, in relation to summary offences that they were slapped with in respect of their second direct...
The Entire Palestine Movement on Trial: Dr Nick Riemer on Fighting Antisemitism Lawfare
Sydney University academics Professor John Keane and Dr Nick Riemer are the next Australian pro-Palestinians being made to front up to the Federal Court, as their own colleagues lodged an antisemitism complaint against them, not for anything extreme, but simply...
Rex Patrick on Why National Archives Denials Are Preventing Reconciling with Timor-Leste: Interview
Former Australian Senator Rex Patrick is to appeal a decision of the National Archives of Australia to the Administrative Review Tribunal (ART), as the NAA denied his 1 January 2025 request for 2004 documents “that relate to ASIS intelligence collection...
“We Are Way Out of Time”: Women from XR Victoria Protesting for Two Years Warn Social Collapse Imminent
A group of women from Extinction Rebellion (XR) Victoria marked the two year anniversary of their ongoing weekly protest demonstration last Friday, 8 August 2025, as they continued to call for Australian governments to act on climate. And as usual...
“Everything Is on the Table”, Says Direct Action Group Targeting Toll Holdings for Driving Genocide
An anonymous group behind a series of late night direct actions involving extreme property damage that has been targeting logistics company Toll Holdings at its various premises on Wurundjeri land across Greater Melbourne of late, have been in contact with...
Guilty of Refusing to Disclose Password: Wage Peace’s Margaret Pestorius on Eroding Rights
Police asking civilians for the passwords to access their mobiles has become the norm, but in the vast majority of cases in NSW and in Queensland, officers need a warrant or a court order to require the code to access...
“They Can’t Take Your Integrity”: Councillor Rhonda Garad on Falling Prey to the Antisemitism Witch Hunt
The society-wide pressure not to speak out against the genocide Israel launched upon the Gaza Strip in October 2023 in Australia was instantaneous. This pressure required people not to raise the unbridled force Israel was pounding the people of Gaza...
The National Justice Project Is Calling for Alternative First Responders to Police: An Interview
The case that heightened the long-term calls for the state of NSW to invest in an alternative to NSW police officers being the first responders to people having mental health crises in the community was the fatal tasering of 95-year-old...
NSW’s Illegitimate Hate and Protest Laws Are Creating Social Division, Says NSWCCL President Timothy Roberts
A caravan filled with explosives and a note listing Jewish premises around Sydney was located on a property on Dharug land in the semirural suburb of Dural on 19 January, and following information related to the discovery of it being...
