Even With the Leaked Texts, Macron Was Right, Morrison Is a Liar
At the G20 summit in Rome last weekend, an Australian reporter asked president Emmanuel Macron whether he thought prime minister Scott Morrison had lied to him in relation to pulling out of a $90 billion submarine deal. And the French...
Want to Keep Your Jobs and ‘Freedoms’? Get the COVID-19 Booster Shot
For months, the return of ‘freedoms’ to New South Wales residents has been linked to vaccination rate - which started at 70% first shot for adults, moved to 70% double-vaccinated for adults, then 70% double-vaccinated for those 16 years and...
Calls to Depopulate the NSW Prison System, as COVID Claims It First Inmate
NSW Health announced on Monday that the first COVID casualty relating to the Parklea Correctional Centre virus outbreak had occurred, as an unvaccinated man in his 60s, who had underlying health conditions, died at Concord Hospital due to an infection acquired...
Climate Action, Not Global Cop Out: An Interview With Workers for Climate Action’s Caitlin Doyle-Markwick
Scott Morrison just addressed the COP26 in Glasgow. And true to form, the PM blew unintelligible hot air at the crowd attending “the last chance saloon” for climate action, as he ticked the required seen-to-be-doing-something box and maintained business as...
US and UK Continue to Torture Assange, as Morrison Complaisantly Looks On
Lawyer acting for Washington in the appeal against the decision not to extradite Julian Assange to the US James Lewis this week provided the UK High Court with a written “package of assurances” relating to the Australian journalist’s welfare if...
Deputy President Will No Longer Hear Claims Regarding Vaccine Mandates
The Fair Work Commission’s Deputy President, Lyndall Dean, who expressed her views against vaccine mandates in a published judgement last month, has been banned from hearing vaccine-related cases and excluded from the Commission’s full bench until “she completes professional conduct...
Morrison Is Detaining Refugees With Compromised Health Inside COVID Hotspot
As of Sunday evening, 23 of the 46 Medevac refugees currently being held long-term in the Park Hotel in the Melbourne inner city suburb of Carlton have contracted the Delta strain of the COVID-19 virus. Unlike other COVID outbreaks occurring...
“A Sign of Weakness and Desperation”: Former ADF Major Cameron Leckie on AUKUS
“AUKUS is a sign of desperation or weakness, because you can’t understand the United States, without acknowledging that it’s an empire. All empires have a lifecycle. And the US is currently in decline.” For most Australians, the prime minister’s announcement...
COVID-19 Has Infected Medevac Refugees in Long-Term Hotel Detention
After 18 months of warnings, the inevitable has happened. A number of refugees who’ve been detained long-term by the Australian government have tested positive to COVID-19. These men are amongst the 50-odd majority Medevac refugees currently locked up in Carlton’s...
As PNG Offshore Detention Ends, Australia Abandons Its Remaining Detainees
Proving she’s just as substantial a human rights abuser as her predecessor Peter Dutton, home affairs minister Karen Andrews announced on 6 October that her government will be abandoning the remaining 120-odd asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea, after detaining...
