Calls to Depopulate the NSW Prison System, as COVID Claims It First Inmate
NSW Health announced on Monday that the first COVID casualty relating to the Parklea Correctional Centre virus outbreak had occurred, as an unvaccinated man in his 60s, who had underlying health conditions, died at Concord Hospital due to an infection acquired...
Surveillance State Grows Under the Cover of COVID
Just quietly over the past couple of months, with the rest of Australia conveniently distracted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Government has introduced draft legislation with a view to creating what it calls a ‘trusted digital identity’. Perhaps with...
Climate Action, Not Global Cop Out: An Interview With Workers for Climate Action’s Caitlin Doyle-Markwick
Scott Morrison just addressed the COP26 in Glasgow. And true to form, the PM blew unintelligible hot air at the crowd attending “the last chance saloon” for climate action, as he ticked the required seen-to-be-doing-something box and maintained business as...
As Australia Cops Out at COP26, Extinction Rebellion Targets Sydney Opera House
“The COP process has failed. Twenty-fifty is too late,” Extinction Rebellion organiser and spokesperson Larissa Payne told those gathered at the entrance to Sydney Opera House at 11 am on Monday morning. “This is climate code red for humanity.” At...
Allocating Funds to Win Seats: Pork Barrelling is Just Politics, says Gladys
‘We throw money at seats to keep them’. During Gladys Berejiklian’s final day of providing testimony before the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption, the practice of ‘pork barrelling’ was front and centre. ICAC is investigating whether the former...
COVID-19 Vaccines: Raising Bars, Booster Shots and Widening the ‘Freedom’ Gap
Sweeping changes to the New South Wales ‘roadmap’ out of the pandemic, announced today, have devastated thousands of New South Wales people who remain unvaccinated. The previous information that residents who are not double-vaccinated would no longer be treated like...
COVID Restriction Breaches Were Driven by Police Enforcement, Report Finds
The measures that were set in place by the Berejiklian government in response to the outbreak of the Delta strain of COVID-19 were extreme. Designed to prevent the mass death that was seen elsewhere across the globe, the key approach...
US and UK Continue to Torture Assange, as Morrison Complaisantly Looks On
Lawyer acting for Washington in the appeal against the decision not to extradite Julian Assange to the US James Lewis this week provided the UK High Court with a written “package of assurances” relating to the Australian journalist’s welfare if...
Vaccination Discrimination: Medically Exempted Waiter Shut Out of Hospitality Industry
Over the weekend, the published story of a Melbourne waiter shut out of the hospitality industry despite having a valid exemption for the Covid-19 vaccine has highlighted the serious issues created by mandated vaccinations. After having a meningococcal immunisation some...
Gladys Grilled Over Gun Club Grant
Telephone intercepts between former New South Wale Premier Gladys Berejiklian and her former partner, disgraced state MP Daryl Maguire have proved to be critical to the ICAC hearing over whether Ms Berejiklian engaged in misconduct by improperly intervening to approve...
