Australian Imams Call Out Beijing’s Oppression of the Uyghur People
The Australian National Imams Council (ANIC) released a statement last Friday, calling out the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) decades-long persecution of the Uyghur people in their homelands, which has only been intensifying over recent years. The Uyghurs are a Central Asian...
The Offence of Giving False or Misleading Information to a Public Authority in NSW
Now former New South Wales police Commander Michael Rowan has been sentenced to 8 months in prison with a non-parole period of six months after pleading guilty to two counts of knowingly giving false or misleading evidence to a public...
Australian Territories Could Be Given the Right to Introduce Euthanasia Laws
Two Federal Labor backbenchers have introduced a Bill which could end to the Commonwealth’s paternalistic ban on the Territories legalising the right to die within their borders. If passed, the will give the territories greater autonomy in the area of...
Attorney General to Restore Human Rights Commission, After Coalition Destroyed It
Following his decision to drop the prosecution against ACT barrister Bernard Collaery, federal attorney general Mark Dreyfus is continuing to clean up the deplorable condition nine years’ worth of Coalition chief lawmakers left the nation’s legal affairs in. On the...
The Sun Has Quietly Set on the NT Intervention, or Has It?
Considering the Howard government deployed ADF troops to remote Aboriginal communities in June 2007 to implement the NT Intervention, the brief 17 June post on a federal agency website announcing the main legislation facilitating the policy has just expired seems...
Sex Work as Work Is a Feminist Issue, Says Rights Activist Julie Bates AO
Writer/director Victoria Midwinter Pitt’s I’m With Her continues play to sell-out audiences around the country. The piece explores the journeys of resistance taken by eight pioneering women in patriarchal Australia through a #MeToo lens. Amongst the voices of the women that...
UN Prison Inspection Body to Visit Australia, as Nation Stumbles on OPCAT
The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) recently announced that it’s visiting our nation later this year. The trip will mark the first time the team of human rights experts will be inspecting Australian places of detention, with the...
“Changing the National Debate”: Senator David Shoebridge on the Greens Agenda
The 47th Australian parliament sat for the first time on Tuesday. This saw the Albanese government taking the reins in the two chambers, the composition of which has dramatically changed since the country took to the polling booths in late...
Former Deputy NSW Premier Under Investigation Over Scuffle with Cameraman
Police are investigating an incident involving former Deputy Premier John Barilaro after video footage emerged showing that he and his girlfriend launched themselves at media cameramen outside a Sydney bar. It’s reported that a Channel Seven reporter approached Mr Barilaro...
Law Firm Ends Relationship with Catholic Church
A Melbourne-based law firm which employs around 900 lawyers including 145 partners says it will end its relationship with the Catholic Church, after 50 years of representing the organisation in the context of claims of sexual abuse and other forms...
