Biloela Family: Political Pawns in the Upcoming Federal Election
Australia’s poor treatment of a family fighting to stay in Australia has become a Federal election issue, as senior politicians within both major parties pledge to let them stay in the country. Labor Leader Anthony Albanese has publicly criticised the...
Police Officer Sent to Prison Over Fatal Collision
An officer who crashed while speeding to a non-urgent call killing a man and leaving his wife with permanent injuries has been sentenced to three years in prison. Former Tasmanian police officer, Aaron Bonner, was responding to a non-urgent call...
Rights-Based NGO Rates Political Parties on Trade Justice
Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) is a mechanism often incorporated into free trade agreements, which provides corporations with specific rights that allow them to sue governments if their business interests are affected by decisions made by local authorities that are adverse to...
The War Against First Nations Hasn’t Ended, It’s Just Become More Subtle
“I didn’t do it. That was 200 years ago. It’s not my fault” has been a common sentiment expressed amongst Anglo Australians for decades, and, although fading, most continue to abide by it as they concurrently reap the benefits of...
NSW Regional Health Crisis: Emergency Rooms Without Doctors, Cooks Caring for Patients, Systemic Misdiagnoses and Critical Errors
Cooks looking after patients and emergency departments without doctors - this is the current state of parts of the New South Wales Regional Health System, according to a recent parliamentary inquiry. In its final report, the inquiry uncovered woeful inadequacies...
Protecting the Pristine Takayna/Tarkine: An Interview With Bob Brown Foundation’s Scott Jordan
Right now, Chinese mining company MMG is attempting to construct a huge heavy metal waste dump in the middle of the takayna/Tarkine Rainforest: the nation’s largest surviving temperate forest of its kind. This means acid-producing tailings from the nearby Rosebery...
When Can Police Shoot to Kill?
Police in the Northern Territory have been accused of failing to provide important evidence in the criminal prosecution of a young Indigenous man they tasered and repeatedly shot earlier in Darwin on 8 March 2022. The story so far Twenty...
Chris Dawson to Face Judge-Alone Trial for the Alleged Murder of his Wife
The former footballer and high school teacher is facing criminal proceedings for the alleged murder of his wife, who mysteriously disappeared in 1982. Since Lynnette Dawson’s disappearance, there have been two coronial inquests and several police investigations, as well as...
“A Lack of Teachers”: That’s Why NSW Educators Are Striking on Wednesday
A “lack of teachers” is the reason why NSW “teachers and principals have made the difficult decision to go on strike” this Wednesday, the NSW Teachers Federation asserts in a 27 April statement that it adds the NSW Department of Education...
Court Dismisses Application to Halt Brittany Higgins Sexual Assault Trial
The Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) has dismissed an application by Bruce Lehrmann’s criminal defence team for a permanent stay of proceedings on the basis that the intense and prolonged publicity would make it impossible to find...
