Albanese Has Thrown Open the Doors to Unquestioned US Military Presence and Control
Hawkish defence minister Richard Marles, in the second last sitting week of federal parliament this year, tabled a bill to amend defence trade control law, which seeks to streamline the financial exchange of defence and strategic goods between the AUKUS powers:...
Sydney’s Pro-Palestinians Condemn Ongoing Gaza Genocide and the Complicity of Albanese
The apartheid Israeli state continues its two-month-long all-out massacre of the Palestinians of Gaza. The operation, first framed around self-defence and revenge in response to Hamas attacks on Israelis, has long been laid bare as a sought-after landgrab awaiting for a...
Albanese’s “Enough is Enough” Stance on Assange Is Pitiful. The People Demand More
Greens Senator David Shoebridge told a crowd of Assange supporters over the weekend that “it is not enough” for the Albanese government to just “endlessly repeat the mantra that it has gone on too long” in regard to Washington’s attempt...
NSW Police Commissioner Seeks to Influence Composition of Coroners Court
An interesting and somewhat concerning stoush is has been unfolding which involves the New South Wales Police Force and the State Coroner’s office. The situation relates to Police Commissioner Karen Webb ‘quietly’ accusing Deputy Coroner Harriet Grahame of ‘perceptual bias’...
High Court Rules Against Indefinite Detention, So the Majors Pass Laws to Reinstate It
Successive Australian governments have been undermining the rule of law when it comes to the practice of indefinitely detaining unlawful noncitizens that they won’t settle here and can’t return to their country origin due to international obligations set out in...
NSW Police Under Fire for Manhandling Woman with Baby
New South Wales Police have again come under scrutiny for heavy handed policing after manhandling a woman with a baby at an event in Sydney where Prime minister Anthony Albanese was speaking. According to bystanders, the pro-Palestine protester had a...
Despite Pill Testing Bill, Minns Condemns Festivalgoers to a Summer of Drugtaking Blind
NSW Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann introduced pill testing legislation into state parliament last week, in an effort to save the lives of people who die regularly in drug-related circumstances, because while drugs like MDMA are illegal, they’re available on the black...
Assaults, Extortion and Murder are Common Across Australian Prisons
Two men have been charged with the offences of murder and extortion over the death of Benn Schinkel at Queensland’s Capricornia Correctional Centre in Rockhampton last year. The three men were inmates at the time Benn Schrinkel was found unresponsive,...
Albanese Votes Down Thorpe’s Post Referendum Indigenous Rights Advancing Bill
Prior to the election of the Albanese government in May 2022, which subsequently led to the failed Voice referendum of October 2023, Senator Lidia Thorpe introduced legislation into federal parliament that aimed at upholding the rights of First Peoples across...
“Literally Black Sites”: Dr Julie Macken on a Royal Commission into Immigration Detention
With the High Court ruling last month that the indefinite detention of unlawful noncitizens in immigration centres is illegal, the resulting release of around 140-odd people from a form of detention without an end or a crime, the Albanese government has...
