Tradies Fight to Protect Their Livelihoods
For the third day in a row, construction workers in Melbourne have taken to the streets, resulting in violent clashes with police. The Tradies are protesting vaccination mandates and the temporary shutdown of their industry, as well as the loss...
Ditch Latham’s Anti-Trans Laws: An Interview With Equality’s Ghassan Kassisieh
Mark Latham seems to be having a very public and paranoid personal crisis about “the family unit”, as the leader of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party in NSW is concerned that “family life is under challenge” and the chief culprits...
The Far-Right Has Infiltrated the Anti-Lockdown Movement
Hundreds of protesters assembled at the Melbourne CBD headquarters of the CFMEU (the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union) on Tuesday morning, following violent clashes between protesters and riot police at the same location the day prior. Those gathered...
NSW Paramedic Launches Legal Challenge to COVID Vaccination Directive
A New South Wales paramedic suspended for refusing to have a COVID-19 vaccination has launched a legal challenge in the Supreme Court of New South Wales. John Larter has been outspoken about his stance against the NSW Government directive that...
Religious Discrimination Laws to be Passed in New South Wales
NSW attorney general Mark Speakman announced earlier this month that the Berejiklian government will be introducing legislation to amend the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW), so that religion will be an attribute protected against discriminatory behaviour. “NSW is a proudly multicultural...
Christian Porter Resigns, But Questions Remain
Under pressure to reveal the names of those who paid his legal fees, the nation’s former chief law officer Christian Porter has chosen to resign from Federal Cabinet, effective yesterday. Prime Minister Scott Morrison ordered an investigation into the ‘blind...
Should Businesses Be Forced to Police Covid Orders?
With Greater Sydney set to open up in the coming weeks, the NSW Government proposes to introduce a ‘vaccine passport’ which will enable entry into a range of venues including restaurants, bars and sporting events for the vaccinated, and leave...
The AUKUS Pact: Morrison Secretly Binds the Nation to a US War on China
The autocratic Morrison government dropped a bombshell on the Australian public on Thursday, as it unveiled that the nation is dramatically stepping up its war footing against China in alliance with the UK and the US. And we’re going to...
Christian Porter Pressured to Reveal Who Paid His Legal Costs
Pressure mounts for the nation’s former chief law officer, Christian Porter, to reveal information about the ‘blind trust’ used to pay his legal fees. Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he is seeking legal advice on how to handle the fact...
“Facing Another Genocide”: Government COVID Neglect of First Nations
The federal and state governments of settler colonial Australia have to some extent agreed to open up from extended periods of pandemic lockdowns and border closures, when 70 and 80 percent adult COVID-19 vaccine rates have been met. With this...
