Letting COVID Rip Condemns the Vulnerable to Ensure Market Wellbeing
After a year and a half of lockdowns, border closures, mask-wearing and distancing, coupled with the 2021 vaccine rollout, the Morrison and Perrottet governments have championed the “let it rip” pandemic approach, which means late-arriving Omicron is surging at unprecedented...
Morrison’s Divisive Leadership Is Corroding the Nation
Under three years of Scott Morrison’s leadership, Australia has fractured. The Liberal leader’s prioritisation of the needs of corporations over the people and his persistent avoidance of key issues - whether in presence or in rhetoric - has far broadened...
Sydney Festival Boycott Grows Due to Sponsorship from Apartheid Israel
The ever-growing boycott of the coming Sydney Festival over its partnering with the Israeli embassy in Canberra, is hardly surprising given the more than 70 years of oppression Palestinians have faced, which this year saw yet another escalation in unbridled...
Six Years on, Still No Justice for David Dungay Jnr, Says Dunghutti Activist Paul Silva
The footage of five Long Bay prison guards holding David Dungay Jnr facedown in the prone position on a bed, as he screams out that he can’t breathe multiple times, is not only hard to watch, but it begs why it...
Doctors Implore Joyce to Back His Words and See Assange Released
The UK High Court determined on 10 December that Julian Assange could be extradited to the United States to face multiple espionage charges carrying up to 175 years imprisonment. This is even with the Australian journalist having suffered a ministroke during...
NZ and US Pass Laws to Reduce Smoking Harms, While Australia Makes it Harder to Quit
The NZ government launched its Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan on 9 December. A decade in the making, the policy proposes to see less than 5 percent of the population smoking in four years’ time, within a country that sees a...
Have Yourself a Very Perrottet Christmas
As Dominic Perrottet took over the reins of the NSW Liberal Nationals government on 5 October, it was understood that the new premier was going to shift the decade-long conservative governance in this state a trifle further to the right…...
Road Fatalities on the Rise Despite COVID Lockdowns
Despite Covid lockdowns right across the country for large chunks of last year and the year before, road fatalities are on the rise. The pressure is now on governments at both the state and federal level to reassess road safety...
Calls to Legalise eScooters and to Increase Power and Speed Caps for eBikes in NSW
The New South Wales Productivity Commission has long urged a review of laws regulating eBikes and eScooters, citing economic, environmental, and public health benefits. Now, in 2025, these calls are being answered – with the NSW Government moving closer to...
US Votes Against UN Adopted Anti-Nazi Resolution, While Australia Abstains
The 76th session of the UN General Assembly last week adopted a resolution on “combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance”. Initiated by the Russian...
