Victoria Police Ramps Up Offensive Against Protests
There’s something very disturbing about scenes from the anti-lockdown protest at the Queen Victoria Market in Melbourne over the weekend. There’s a series of video footage posted online which shows scores of heavily armed and riot squad police far outnumbering...
Australian Police Officers Continue Signalling Their White Supremacist Allegiance
The Queensland Police Service is currently investigating a matter that involves a photo of one of its officers that appears to show him wearing a patch associated with white supremacist groups as he was policing a Black Lives Matter (BLM)...
NSW Police to Crackdown on House Parties
Spring is here, and with it comes sunshine, warmer weather and people looking to have a good time – especially given the restrictions we’ve all faced over the past six months or so. But police are warning that attending a...
Dan’s Dictatorship: Victorian Premier May Have Lied About Curfew Advice
Both the Victorian Police Commissioner and the Victorian Chief Health Officer have embarrassed Premier Daniel Andrews this week by admitting on separate occasions to national media that the nightly curfews which have Melburnians locked in their homes between the hours...
Morrison and Murdoch Scrambled to Hide the Climate Cause of the Bushfires
Most Australians will remember that our supreme leader Scott Morrison disappeared for a Hawaiian holiday last summer as the nation grappled with bushfires on a scale that the government was unprepared for, despite long-term warnings coming from experts. As Greenpeace’s...
Dutton Is Turfing Vulnerable Refugees Out Onto the Street Mid-Pandemic
Dutton and his new acting henchman Alan Tudge have come to the decision that the current pandemic and downturn in the economic climate is a good time to start evicting asylum seekers and refugees out of their long-term accommodation, and...
Berejiklian Short-Sighted on Uranium: An Interview With Uranium Free NSW’s Natalie Wasley
The O’Farrell government attempted to end the state ban on uranium mining and exploration in the early years of last decade. And while it succeeded in lifting the 26 year moratorium on exploring, due to pushback, the ban on mining...
Restore the Right to Protest: An Interview With Democracy Is Essential’s Vinil Kumar
Although there’s been no major announcement, the Berejiklian government has implemented a ban on outdoor protests of more than 20 people. And NSW police has been enforcing this rather underhanded prohibition since late July. After unsuccessfully attempting to have a...
Queensland to Force Priests to Report Child Sexual Abuse
Queensland has just passed news law which makes it a crime for priests to fail to report incidents of child sexual abuse. Under the new laws, religious institutions and their members are no longer able to use the sanctity of...
Criminologists Call for Divestment in Police and Prisons to End First Nations Injustice
The footage of George Floyd being killed by Minneapolis police on 25 May, struck a chord with the global community, as it laid bare the heightened racism in the US system, as well as that the institution of police has...
