NSW Government’s Tough-on-Youth-Crime Package: An Exercise in Passing Regressive Laws for Optics
On Tuesday, 12 March 2024 the NSW Labor government made it known that it’s concerned about not appearing tough enough on kids who fall foul of the law. And as of Tuesday this week, the state has been altered to...
The Australian War on Vapes: An Absurd Rejection of a Healthier Alternative
Two NSW police officers recently approached a 13-year-old boy vaping outside a Coles supermarket in the NSW town of Deniliquin, and, as he stood right beside his mother and another youth, one officer ordered him to hand over his “vapes”...
Cold War Implications of Dan Duggan Extradition Heat Up as Security State Closes Ranks
The extradition case involving Australian citizen Dan Duggan, which has seen the father-of-six remanded in prolonged isolation on request of the US for over 500 days now, has always maintained an air of legitimacy about it, despite its stark anomalies,...
Former NSW Magistrate David Heilpern Condemns Absolute Liability Drug Driving Ruling
Right now, the New South Wales drug driving laws that facilitate police roadside drug testing are unjust, and, over the last decade, when this open secret has been raised in parliament, conservative MPs feign a lack of understanding regarding the...
Sydney’s 22nd Mass Palestinian Rally Foretells of a Coming Political Reckoning: In Photos
Sydney’s pro-Palestinians turned out on Gadigal land for the 22nd week in a row, which is a disgustingly long time for the mass slaughter in Gaza - a catastrophe that’s now fast approaching famine - but it’s also an impressively...
Prosecuting Australian Genocide: A Chat With Uncle Robbie Thorpe and Barrister Len Lindon
Currently, litigation that charges King Charles Windsor III with the crimes of genocide and ecocide is doing the rounds of the Victorian court system. Having been launched by Gunnai Mara elder Uncle Robbie Thorpe, the case was lodged in October...
Climate Activists Sentenced to Imprisonment Over Non-Violent Protest
Extinction Rebellion activists Violet Coco, Brad Homewood and Joe Zammit drove a truck onto the West Gate Bridge in Naarm-Melbourne at 7.45 am on Tuesday and parked it in a manner that blocked three lanes of five heading in one...
Mardi Gras May Have Passed, But NSW Police Remains a Rogue Force
The city was in a tither last week, over the news that the Mardi Gras Board had requested that members of the NSW Police Force not march in the parade last Saturday night, to allow the community “space to grieve”,...
ASIO’s Chinaphobic Threat Assessment Ignores the Risk Posed by US Warmongers
ASIO director general Mike Burgess reminded the nation during his 28 February annual threat assessment that despite a nation having gone rogue, breaking all norms of war and undermining the international justice system for five months now, the local focus...
NSW Police Officers Assault Teen for Possessing a Vape
The actions of New South Wales police officers have gone viral for all the wrong reasons once again, this time due to their illegal arrest of a young teenager in possession of a vape: an act which is completely legal....
