Climate Activist Imprisoned Over Successful Blockading of Newcastle Coal Port
The heat is turning up on all climate fronts. Keeping below 1.5°C on preindustrial levels is looking increasingly unlikely, while political leaders globally are growing more cunning at presenting their inaction as movement, and climate activists are becoming far more...
Palmer Champions His Own Freedoms, Not the Peoples: Morrison Instigated Mandates
The Freedom movement continues to grow nationwide, as those opposing lockdowns, border closures and vaccine mandates, rally together on the streets, calling for the upholding of rights and the restoration of freedoms. Tens of thousands of protesters took to the...
The Offence of Providing False Documents or False or Misleading Information Relating to Non-Citizens
Former Federal Labor MP Craig Thomson has been charged over an alleged fraudulent visa scheme worth millions of dollars. The charges follow a joint investigation by the Australian Federal Police (AFP), Australia Border Force (ABF), Australian Taxation Office (ATO), AUSTRAC...
Morrison’s Voter Suppression Laws Will Provoke US-Style Electoral Paranoia
Over recent months, the increasingly Trumpian Morrison government has introduced a suite of laws relating to partaking and voting in federal elections that not only stink of desperation, but they appear as a solution to electoral issues imported from the...
Queensland Border Bureaucracy Endangers Injured Woman
A young New South Wales woman was forced to walk home across the border after being released from hospital disoriented and in pain, when she was abandoned by both Queensland health and taxi drivers. Phoebe Kirk was involved in a...
National Security Law Permitting the Secret Trial of Witness J Is Under Scrutiny
There has been a sustained national debate about whistleblower prosecutions over the last few years, with a chief concern being the national security laws that permit the trials of Witness K, Bernard Collaery and David McBride to be shrouded in...
NSW Parliament to Consider Raising the Age of Criminal Responsibility to 14
NSW continues to lockup children as young as 10 years old. Indeed, the entire nation of Australia does. And rather than term it as imprisonment, it’s sanitised as youth justice. Over 2019-20, this state detained 105 children 13 years or...
Class Action Launched Over Illegal Strip Searches
A class action lawsuit has been launched on behalf of young people who were unlawfully strip searched at the Splendour in the Grass music festival in 2018. In 2019, the New South Wales Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) began an...
Hazzard Seeks to Extend His Pandemic Powers Until 2023
The NSW Health Minister wants to extend emergency powers across the state until as late as October 2023. The proposition has angered a number of coalition MPs who believe that doing so is an unnecessary over-reach. Currently, the emergency powers...
Animal Justice Party Tables Laws to Prevent Convenience Killings of Dogs
The extended 2021 NSW lockdown saw heightened fears sweep across the community. But the kneejerk decision of Bourke Shire Council to kill 15 dogs in its custody, as something of an attempt to prevent virus transmission, was resoundingly seen as...
