Stop Handcuffing Refugees: An Interview With Doctors for Refugees’ Patrick Lukins
On top of all the other brutality successive federal governments have been meting out upon refugees and asylum seekers who arrived in Australian waters by boat, it’s also required that these detainees are handcuffed whilst being transferred from a facility...
Government vs Google: Will The Tech Giant Really Leave Australia?
The battle lines have been drawn. Google Search has threatened to leave Australia if the new media bargaining code is introduced. So what does the future hold for the search engine that controls 95% of the market? The proposed law...
COVID-19 and the Global Shift Towards Authoritarian Governance
Despite recurring lockdowns globally, COVID-19 continues to plague the planet. The pandemic toll on 29 January 2021 stands at 101 million cases worldwide, 56 million recoveries, and 2.19 million deaths as a result of the virus. On 31 December 2019,...
Camera Phones Are the “Single Best” Tool for Police Accountability
A few weeks back, the brutality involved in the western Sydney arrest of David Ridgeway on 29 December 2020 was being called out, and questions were raised as to why the Aboriginal man is now being remanded for assaulting police,...
Covid-19 Vaccine Approved, But Questions Remain as to Safety and Effectiveness
The Australian Therapeutic Good Administration has approved the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccination, which means the government will commence planning a rollout. However, concerns have been raised about the rollout strategy as well as the effectiveness of, and potential dangers with, a...
Free Them All: The Government Is Finally Releasing the Medevac Detainees
The former offshore asylum-seeking detainees that were brought to this country almost two years ago under the now revoked Medevac laws - and have since been locked up in hotels and immigration facilities - are slowly being released into the...
Did Donald Trump Incite the Capitol Hill Riots?
In the aftermath of riots on the Capitol Building earlier this month, as a result of which five people died, former US President Donald Trump has been impeached. Under the US Constitution, Congress has the authority to impeach and remove...
The PM Has Overseen the Mass Deportation of Kiwis
“Entry and stay in Australia by noncitizens is a privilege, not a right, and the Australian community expects that the Australian government can and should refuse entry to noncitizens, or cancel their visas, if they do not abide by Australian...
Have Social Media Companies Become Too Powerful?
It is perhaps no surprise that social media companies are being forced to rethink their content moderation policies after the permanent suspension of Donald Trump over allegations he incited his followers to riot at the United States Capitol Building earlier...
Classifying the Houthi Movement as a Terrorist Organisation Is a Disaster for Yemen
Although often ignored internationally, the worst humanitarian crisis unfolding on the globe right now is happening in Yemen. The ongoing war in the Middle Eastern country has left 3.65 million people internally displaced and 24 million - or 80 percent...
