Sydney Trans Community Remains Visible in Defiance of Local and US Existential Threats
Much of Sydney’s transgender community and its supporters gathered on Gadigal land in Newtown’s Pride Square last Sunday, for the Pride in Protest hosted Trans Day of Visibility rally 2025. And as speaker after speaker took the microphone, the message...
Trump Proposes to Deport Pro-Palestinians to Appease Israel. Could It Happen Here?
In amongst its authoritarian grab for power, its drive to disempower minorities and to establish white supremacy, the US Trump administration has commenced a targeted campaign against foreign pro-Palestinian students and academics, who had been outspoken against Israel’s genocide in...
Sydney Pro-Palestinians Call Out Pitiful Major Party Form on Ongoing Gaza Genocide
As they have so many times over the last 18 months, pro-Palestinians from across Greater Sydney gathered on Gadigal land in the city’s Hyde Park to call for an end to the Israeli-perpetrated genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza, and...
Sentence for Officer Who Killed Great-Grandmother by Taser Is Manifestly Inadequate
The former police officer convicted of manslaughter for fatally tasering 95-year-old great-grandmother Clare Nowland at an aged care facility in southern New South Wales has been given a non-custodial sentence, with many expressing the view that the penalty is far...
The Dangers of Criminalising Criticism of Israel: Interview with Muslim Legal Network’s Dr Oz Susler
Universities Australia announced on 27 February that all of its 39 member universities nationwide have agreed to adopt a definition of antisemitism “that aligns closely with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition”, which has a controversial reputation as it...
NSW Greens to Introduce Human Rights Act for NSW
New South Wales Greens human rights spokesperson Jenny Leong gave notice on 19 March that she’ll soon be introducing a Human Rights Bill into NSW parliament, which will seek to uphold the rights of NSW citizens and residents under state...
Schoolyard Assault Highlights Trend Towards Violence in Youth Culture
A recent case involving the arrest of a woman and two young girls over the alleged attempted assault of a student and brutal assault of two staff members at a school in Northern New South Wales exemplifies a disturbing trend...
Political Block on Atrocity Prosecutions Remains, As Major Parties Reject Genocide Reforms
The Labor-Liberal ruling duopoly voted down Senator Lidia Thorpe’s Genocide Bill in the Senate on Wednesday, which meant the major parties agreed that a political veto afforded the attorney general in respect progressing atrocity crime prosecutions, that ensures inequality before...
Will Australian Leaders Extradite Dan Duggan to an Authoritarian USA?
Experts are describing the assault on the democratic institution of the separation of powers the newly incumbent Trump administration has embarked upon, via its executive order issuing bonanza over the last two months, as a “blitzkrieg on the rule of...
New South Wales Launches Yet Another Crackdown on Youth Crime
The New South Wales Police Force launched yet another regional youth crime crackdown on 19 March 2025, as deputy commissioner Paul Pisanos told Nine’s Today that the new Operation Soteria has been put into effect to address what police see...
