PJCIS: Major Party National Security Law Rubber Stamping Club’s Mandate to Broaden
Since 9/11, the Australian government has passed coming up on close to 100 pieces of national security/counterterrorism legislation, with bipartisan approval, that, along with enhancing the security state, has served to whittle away at the basic rights and liberties of...
World Health Organisation Finally Acknowledges COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries
The organisation that has been instrumental in the response to Covid-19, including the push for universal, preliminarily-tested vaccinations by big pharmaceutical companies, has quietly published a report acknowledging the potentially adverse effects of the drugs it has campaigned for. Acknowledgement...
David Hicks-Style Plea Deal Could Be the Lifeline that Julian Assange Needs
US ambassador Caroline Kennedy told SMH on Monday that a plea deal could be on the cards in regard to Australian journalist Julian Assange, who’s been held in a UK maximum-security prison at the behest of the White House in prolonged isolation...
Thin-Skinned, Heavy-Handed Policing: A Worldwide Trend
Seven police officers rushed the home of a 16-year old autistic girl on Monday 7 August 2023 and performed a heavy-handed arrest on the teen for making an “offensive homophobic comment” towards one of the officers, before dragging the girl...
The Incremental Gifting of Australian Military Control to the United States Is Alive and Well
Veteran journalist Brian Toohey outlines in 2019’s Secret that US intelligence agents weren’t too keen on then Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam’s mid-1970s questioning of the viability of US government operations at local military installations at Pine Gap and North West...
Faehrmann Calls for Regulated Legal Cocaine in NSW, in the Wake of a Spate of Shootings
Released in June, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime World Drug Report 2023 outlines that the Australian use of the illegal drug cocaine is per capita the highest in the world, whilst Sydney has long been known as this nation’s capital of...
Fourth Police Officer Sentenced Over Killing of George Floyd
The fourth Minneapolis police officer prosecuted over the killing of George Floyd has been sentenced in the United States, bringing the criminal proceedings relating to perhaps the most publicised incident of police brutality since the horrific beating of Rodney King...
Albanese Complicit in United States’ Use of Australian Citizen as Political Pawn
An Australian citizen since 2012, former US marine fighter pilot Daniel Duggan returned to his family home in the NSW town of Orange last October, after ASIO had indicated that he’d been cleared for an ASIC card, which permitted him...
United States Vows to Prosecute Julian Assange All the Way to Trial
Since the announcement of the details of the AUKUS alliance in March, a shift in authority over this nation is apparently underway, which began with the Albanese government agreeing to a $368 billion nuclear-powered submarine deal with the US, despite congressional...
United States Strips Military Commanders of Prosecutorial Powers
United States President Joe Biden has ordered an historic change to the way serious crimes such as sexual assaults and murders that are allegedly committed by defence personnel are dealt with, transferring prosecutorial powers from commanders to an independent body...
