The Impact of COVID on Sydney’s Homeless: An Interview With Lanz Priestley
The Sydney CBD was almost deserted last Saturday evening. With the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, most locals were already choosing to spend their night at home. And this was even before the stage one coronavirus prevention measures came into...
Release Immigration Detainees for COVID: An Interview With Advocate Margaret Sinclair
Photos displaying the cramped living conditions that immigration detainees are continuing to be held in at Avon Compound within the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) detention facility are currently being shared amongst refugee advocates online. The images reveal rooms packed...
The Next Social Justice Movement: An Interview With the Animal Defenders Office’s Tara Ward
The High Court of Australia ruled in February that footage revealing greyhound trainers illegally using live rabbits as baits was inadmissible in court, as it had been obtained unlawfully. However, subsequent resulting evidence could be permitted, so those trainers will...
Release Frail and Elderly Inmates for COVID: An Interview With Greens MLC David Shoebridge
The latest figures show that there were 13,635 adult inmates being held in NSW correctional facilities last December. This is a population at an increased risk of catching COVID-19 if there’s an outbreak in one of these centres that are...
Rebellion Is Our Moral Duty: An Interview With Extinction Rebellion’s Larissa Payne
In mid-April last year, masses of climate activists shutdown major parts of London for over a week. Those involved in the nonviolent direct actions rallied under the banner of Extinction Rebellion (XR), which is a movement that was then relatively...
A Holistic Approach to Defending Women: An Interview With the LACW’s Elena Pappas
Although the number of women behind bars is still relatively small compared to men inside, women’s numbers in prison have been on a dramatic increase over recent years. Last September, there were 3,505 women inmates in Australian facilities compared with...
A Just Transition: An Interview With NSW Greens MLC Abigail Boyd
The 2019-20 bushfire catastrophe saw Australia become ground zero of the climate crisis. A recent study found that more than 20 percent of forest on the mainland was engulfed by the flames, which is in a scope that’s never been...
“Built Upon Our Genocide”: An Interview With Wreck the Endeavour’s Lorna Munro
Right now, there’s a replica of Captain Cook’s ship the Endeavour docked at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney, which is set to conduct a circumnavigation of the continent beginning on 28 April - in a re-enactment of a...
A “21st Century Holocaust”: An Interview With Uyghur Activist Talgat Abbas
According to the Torchlight Uyghur Group, when the flights out of Wuhan city - the coronavirus epicentre - were cancelled on 23 January, one set of flights was allowed to continue, and they were those bound for Urumqi, the capital...
“Julian Did Redact”: An Interview With Lawyer-Journalist Mark Davis
The line up of renowned Australian journalists on the stage at the Martin Place Amphitheatre on 24 February was impressive. Gathered for a rally, they included John Pilger, Mary Kostakidis, Quentin Dempster, Wendy Bacon, Andrew Fowler and Mark Davis. They...
