As Victoria Trials Pill Testing, It’s Time to Save NSW Youths Not Punish Them with Death
In late 2015, as the volume on the pill testing campaign was turning up due to a recent spate of festival deaths, there was a boat packed with pollies guarding the waters around prohibitive state drug regimes, with then NSW...
Julian Is Coming Home: Assange’s Plea Deal Freedom Is a Victory for Us All
Footage of Julian Assange sitting in a room close by a runway at London Stansted Airport, prior to walking freely from the building towards a small passenger plane and boarding at 5 pm local time Monday afternoon, was posted at...
Australian Vape Sales to be Restricted to Pharmacies
The Federal Government has rolled back aspects of its recently introduced laws regulating e-cigarettes, also known as ‘vapes’, but Australia is still set to become the first nation on earth to restrict the sale of the potentially harm minimising product...
The New South Wales Drug Diversion Scheme is an Abject Failure
The drug diversion scheme that NSW premier Chris Minns quietly implemented in February, has been found not to be adequately working in terms of diverting people from the criminal justice system and towards a more health-based approach. Known as the...
The Right to Disconnect in Australia: What Does it All Mean?
Amendments to the Fair Work Act 2009 brought about by the Fair Work Amendment (Right to Disconnect) Bill 2023 will mean that from 26 August 2024, employees in businesses which employ more than 15 employees (non-small businesses) will have the...
Murdoch Likens Bandt to Hitler, Despite Netanyahu’s Best Efforts at Achieving the Title
To be labelled a Nazi, or even worse, likened to the figure of Adolf Hitler, are some of the gravest charges an individual can be labelled with. And that’s, to state the obvious, because under Hitler’s leadership, the Nazis perpetrated...
Sure, Minns Promised a Drug Summit, But That Was When Seeking Election
Guess what? NSW premier Chris Minns hasn’t been the progressive politician he’d attempted to portray he would be during the 2023 election campaign. Indeed, it’s hard to believe, after a year of his leadership, that is the same guy, who...
Let’s Get Boyle: ATO Whistleblower’s Appeal Fails, Just Like Justice Under Dreyfus
Richard Boyle is the last man standing from the hitlist of three whistleblowers that the then Coalition government targeted for prosecution in 2018. Three former public servants, Witness K, David McBride and Richard Boyle, who’d all spoken out about government...
Factcheck: Attorney General Claims, “By and Large, Children Are Not Gaoled in Australia”
Federal attorney general Mark Dreyfus introduced new laws on 5 June that will make it a crime to share deepfake porn online if the artificially generated individual looks over 18, and the sharer was reckless as to whether they consented,...
NACC Under Investigation for Corrupt Conduct, After Refusing RoboDebt Inquiry
Remember the calls for a federal ICAC now? The campaign was prominent during the later years of the recent decade of Coalition rule, when Scott Morrison was the top minister: a PM so drunk on power that he secretly swore...
