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...
Thought Crime Becomes a Reality in Latest NSW Police ‘Terrorism’ Operation
Sydney breathed a sigh of relief on Wednesday afternoon, as New South Wales police announced announced that Operation Mingary, which comprised 400 officers deployed to thirteen locations across the city’s west, had resulted in seven “juveniles” being arrested, so we’re...
‘Forging Justice When Our Leaders Fail Us’: Helen O’Sullivan Sets Sail on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
University of Queensland educator Helen O’Sullivan is currently over in Türkiye about to set sail on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, which comprises of three ships attempting to deliver much-needed food and aid to the 2.3 million Palestinians of the Gaza...
Proselytising from the NSW Lower House, and the Rise of Faith in State Politics
“Well look, I’d just say that obviously in a city as big as Sydney, in a state as big as NSW, when you’ve got a multicultural, multifaith community, it’s hard to get 100 percent of those communities and those members...
Former NSW DPP Nicholas Cowdery Calls on NSW Government to Reform Drug Laws
“We should all be accustomed by now to government promises - before and after elections - being broken or modified and this seems to be just another example,” former NSW Director of Public Prosecutions Nicolas Cowdery said, regarding the go-slow...
