Watchdogs Under Fire for Accepting Gifts
The Australian Investment and Securities Commission (ASIC) and Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) are under fire for failing to declare gifts from the businesses they’re supposed to be regulating. ASIC is an Australian government body that is empowered to...
QVB Rough Sleepers’ Camp Shines a Light on Sydney’s Homeless Crisis
Last Saturday, evidence of the homeless camp that had sprung up on George Street beside the Queen Victoria Building was all but gone. Where there had once been numerous makeshift beds and furniture earlier in the week, there was only...
Saving Aboriginal Mothers From Prison: An Interview With Free the People’s Debbie Kilroy
In Western Australia, the authorities still incarcerate people for unpaid fines. It’s the only jurisdiction in the country that continues to do so. If an individual can’t otherwise pay off their debt, this system sees it reduced by $250 each day...
Doctor Reports Being Assaulted by Police While Trying to Help Injured Man
It seems that nearly every day across Australia, we hear reports of police officers engaging in acts of brutality against members of the public. And while reports are rife of heavy-handed tactics against vulnerable people such as the poor, homeless...
Prison for Police Officer who Groomed Vulnerable Teen
A Victorian Police officer who groomed a vulnerable teenager for sexual relations has spent his first night in prison, after a Victorian Judge sentenced him to 10 months behind bars. Officer Vikram Gopinath met the teen when she was just...
Youths Demand Pill Testing to Stop Deaths: An Interview With SSDP’s Sofia Devetak
Decades ago, the Just Say No campaign was launched by Nancy Reagan, wife of then US president Ronald Reagan. Comprised of the simple idea that telling children to say no to illicit substances would somehow stop drug use, the campaign...
Peter Dutton Tops Hard-Right Hitlist
The fact that home affairs minister Peter Dutton was voted number one on a list of Coalition MPs the public would like to see ousted in the next federal election would be no surprise to much of the community. But,...
Defence Chief Calls for Greater Government Control of the Internet
Australia’s military chief claims that the prevalence of cyber-espionage and computer hacking justifies moves to give Western governments greater control over cyber-space. Defence Force Chief, General Angus Campbell, says he has observed an “extraordinary uptick” in international espionage and opportunistic...
NSW Police Officer Pleads Guilty to Sharing Arrested Woman’s Intimate Images
A former NSW police officer will be sentenced next month after admitting that he illegally shared the intimate images of a woman he arrested. The incident 29-year old Steven Albee was a senior constable with the NSW Police Force stationed...
Immigration Detainees on Hunger Strike Over Brutality and Deplorable Conditions
On Wednesday, over 350 detainees at Perth’s Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre entered the tenth day of their hunger strike over conditions at the facility. Key grievances are guard brutality, the arbitrary nature punishment and government powers to detain indefinitely. And as...
