To Appeal or Extradite: UK Courts Set to Decide on the Assange Extralegal Show Trial
The extradition case against Julian Assange has been close to coming to some sort of resolution for at least four years now. And over the last five years, the WikiLeaks founder has been remanded in a UK prison under conditions...
New Anti-Money Laundering Laws Could Mean Prison for Professionals
New laws are being enacted by the federal parliament that will extend the obligation to report transactions suggestive of money laundering beyond financial institutions to a range of professionals including lawyers, accountants and real estate agents, meaning professionals could face...
Demonising Sydney’s Muslim Communities, Yet Again, Is All About the Gaza Optics
The fact that Israel has been able to perpetrate a seven-month-long genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza, while western powers have watched on in support, has destroyed all notions that humanity, or for that matter, the enlightened west, has moved...
Police Are Quick to Label Muslim Teens as Terrorists, But the Same Doesn’t Apply to Others
The Alliance of Australian Muslims released a 26 April statement about the recent terror raids in Sydney, which were sparked by a 16-year-old Muslim boy stabbing a priest and led to six more Muslim teenagers being charged with terrorism for...
Manufacturing Terrorists: Fabricating Domestic Threats to Justify Foreign Policy
Domestic terrorism and a mounting scare campaign about it has hit our TV screens over the last fortnight or so, as a 16-year-old Muslim boy who stabbed a priest was branded a terrorist by NSW police, and the force then...
Is the NSW Police Force Actively Impeding Drug Law Reform?
The Uniting Church NSW.ACT launched Fair Treatment, a campaign calling for drug decriminalisation to be rolled out in the two jurisdictions in which it operates. And Sir Richard Branson was in Sydney to support the launch. The Virgin entrepreneur went...
A Tale of Two Failed Approaches to Violence: That Toward Women and Terrorism
The fear of terrorism offences has played a prominent role in the Australian psyche since the early 2000s. And a complicated set of laws has since been enacted to combat a particular type of crime, and this bipartisan project has...
Australian Governments Promise to Crackdown on Domestic Violence Offences
Welcome, Anthony Albanese, to the ‘national crisis’ of domestic violence offences predominantly - but certainly not always - committed by men against women. In response to thousands of women, men and children rallying over the weekend against the epidemic of...
The NSW Police Powers Unlocked by the Commissioner’s Terrorism Designation
A panic over terrorism has hit New South Wales, following a recent mass murder and another nonfatal stabbing incident in this state. NSW police commissioner Karen Webb determined that the nonlethal knife crime was an act of terrorism under the...
Government Uses Stabbings and Terrorism Raids to Justify Crackdown on Free Speech
ASIO boss Mike Burges and AFP commissioner Reece Kershaw appeared at the National Press Club on Wednesday, to stress the need for a crackdown on internet freedoms in the wake of recent Sydney stabbings and raids, although these events had...
