Donald Trump Permanently Suspended from Twitter
Scenes of the mob attack on US Congress earlier this week shocked the world. Five people have died as a result of Trump supporters breaking into the US Capitol Building last week disrupting the certification of Joe Biden as the...
Desperate Detainees Riot on Christmas Island Over Indefinite Detention
Two of the three compounds currently in operation at the Christmas Island immigration facility were set ablaze in the early hours of Wednesday morning, as a small number of detainees protested against their unjust and indefinite detention. The demonstrators are...
The Indefinite Detention Achilles Heel: An Interview With Human Rights For All’s Alison Battisson
The Magna Carta is a charter of rights that was drafted by the court of King John of England in 1215. And to this day, the eight-century-old document provides the foundational legal principles of our modern Australian democracy, including that...
UK Refuses to Extradite Assange to the US, For Now
“I find that Mr. Assange’s risk of committing suicide, if an extradition order were to be made, to be substantial,” said UK Judge Vanessa Baraitser in her 4 January-delivered final findings into the US extradition case against Australian journalist Julian...
War Resumes in Occupied Western Sahara: An Interview With Polisario’s Kamal Fadel
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) president and Polisario Front leader Brahim Ghali ended the 1991 ceasefire agreement between his Sahrawi independence forces and the Moroccan army, which has occupied most of Western Sahara since 1975. Ghali brought the 29-year-long truce...
Season’s Greetings: Australia Continues its Inhumane Treatment of Refugees
When Australian Border Force officials called the former offshore refugee detainees - who’d been locked up in Melbourne’s Mantra Hotel for over a year - to a 14 December meeting, the 60-odd men were well aware that five other Medevac...
Boycott Global Brands With Forced Uyghur Labour in Their Supply Chains
Since April 2017, the Chinese government has been operating a network of extrajudicial political re-education camps involving the incarceration of at least one million Uyghur people in the far western province of Xinjiang. Reports of the mass detention of Uyghurs,...
World Moves Closer to Cannabis Decriminalisation
Despite the lamentable outcome of the NZ cannabis legalisation referendum that saw the usually progressive nation vote in a slight majority against making the plant legal for recreational use, the ongoing international trend towards cannabis use becoming a legal practice...
The Brereton Report’s Detailing of Historical Australian War Crimes: Part 2
The recently released Brereton report into alleged SAS war atrocities perpetrated in Afghanistan provides an account of historical Australian war crimes committed in six different conflicts. In our first article relating to the history, we provided a rundown on the...
Australia Must Take Action Against Alleged War Criminals
Only days after the release of the Brereton Report into alleged war crimes committed by Australian Special Forces in Afghanistan, a sickening photo has emerged of an Australian soldier drinking from a prosthetic leg, believed to have come from a...
