Under Dutton, an Oz MAGA Would Increase Authoritarianism and US Control
Australian radio waves were in a tither on Monday, as the final leaders debate the night before saw potential next PM Peter Dutton unaware of the price of eggs during a cost-of-living crisis. But if that’s the major gripe against...
NSW Government Uses Knife Crime to Justify Wholesale Random Searches and Surveillance
The first day of the NSW Coroners Court Bondi Junction Inquest, which will inquire into the mass stabbing incident that involved 40-year-old white Australian man Joel Cauchi entering the Bondi Junction Westfield shopping mall on 13 April 2024 to commence...
South Australia’s Plan to Seize the Assets of Low-Level Drug Offenders is Counterproductive
As other jurisdictions both in Australia and abroad are seeing the sense in drug law reform, with interventions like pill testing trials in multiple Australian states and territories, the South Australian government has come to the conclusion that the best...
The Thorpe-Payman Genocide Bills Would Ensure No Complicity in Gaza Genocide
Recent days have seen major breakthroughs in reporting on evidence of Australian-made weapons parts and entire locally produced weapons systems, continuing to end up in Israeli military hands during a genocide, via aboveboard, yet opaque, export arrangements, which provide further...
The Victoria Police Killing of Homeless Somali Man: Justified or Excessive Force?
Two Victoria police officers shot dead Somali man Abdifatah Ahmed at around 9 pm on Thursday 17 April 2025, after being called out to the corner of Paisly and Albert streets in the Naarm-Melbourne suburb of Footscray, due to a...
As Global Conflicts Escalate, Lest We Remember the Futility of the ANZAC Myth
On 25 April 2025, Australia shall pause for its annual ANZAC Day public holiday, and the solemn phrase “lest we forget” will be repeatedly uttered, as it’s supposed to invoke a duty to honour and remember Australian soldiers who lost...
Statistics Suggest Police Are Solving More Crimes Than Ever Before
A recent report by the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) has the mainstream media asserting that criminal offences are being ‘solved’ at higher rates than ever before in New South Wales. But while these sources...
Dutton’s Determination to Host Netanyahu Reveals His Trumpian Agenda Is Still On
When The Australian’s editor-at-large Paul Kelly quizzed Liberal opposition leader Peter Dutton during a 16 April 2025 interview, on whether a future Coalition government would “ignore the prescription from the International Criminal Court (ICC) that he should be arrested” and...
The Duopoly Crucifies Whistleblowers: A Robust Post-Election Crossbench Would Protect Them
Then shadow attorney general Mark Dreyfus told the Canberra Times in October 2021 that he understood the 2013 legislation that he produced to protect public service whistleblowers, during an earlier stint as the nation’s chief lawmaker, needed improving, and if...
NSW Labor Is Demolishing Lismore Homes and Evicting Squatters During a Housing Crisis
Housing advocates gathered on Bundjalung land in Lismore on 16 April 2025 to protest the ongoing demolition of homes, some built with 100-year-old timber, that were bought by the state, as part of the October 2022-announced NSW Resilient Homes buyback...
