AFP Backs Down on Prosecuting Journalist Over ‘Afghan Files’
After months of speculation, the AFP has confirmed that it will not be charging ABC journalist Dan Oakes in relation to reports of atrocities committed by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan, but so far remains intent on prosecuting his source, former...
Should a Regulated Cannabis Market be Introduced in Australia?
Preliminary results from the New Zealand referendum on cannabis legalisation indicate strong opposition to the reform. The results show just over half (53%) of voters rejected proposed changes which would have allowed the legal possession and sale of cannabis products,...
A Victory for the People: Bolivia Reinstates Indigenous-Based Democracy
The 18th October Bolivian national election was a victory on many levels. The return to power of MAS (Movement Toward Socialism) marked a win for the Indigenous people of Bolivia - the Aymara and Quechua - who make up the...
Don Dunstan: A Past Beacon of Light in a Barren Political Landscape
At around 11 pm on 10 May 1972, South Australia University law lecturer Dr George Duncan was thrown into Adelaide’s River Torrens by what it’s fairly safe to say these days were three SA police vice squad officers. This occurred...
Australia Opposes the Death Penalty, Which is Why We Fund Those Facing It
China’s Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court announced in writing last June that Australian citizen Karm Gilespie has been sentenced to death by firing squad over allegedly trying to smuggle 7.5 kilograms of methamphetamine out of the country on New Year’s Eve...
Can I Obtain a Visa into Australia If I Have a Criminal Record?
In July 2013, then 21-year old Patrick O’ Farrell pleaded guilty to manslaughter for killing 20-year old biomedical student Andrew Dolan in a street in Mullingar, Ireland on New Year’s Day in 2012. During the sentencing proceedings, the court viewed...
China Rolls Out Forced Labour Camps in Tibet: An Interview With ATC’s Gemima Harvey
Seventy one years after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) first sent in troops to begin its takeover of the free and independent nation of Tibet, Beijing is again escalating its project of decimating the culture and society of the sovereign...
RIP Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Champion of Gender Equality
United States Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died of cancer over the weekend, was a passionate, astute, outspoken advocate of women’s rights, civil liberties and the rule of law. Born in 1933 in Brooklyn, New York, to a...
Australia Looks the Other Way, as Assange Is Hung Out to Dry
Right now, the substantial extradition hearings involving the US government request that the UK hand over publisher and journalist Julian Assange are underway. The Wikileaks founder has been held in British custody at London’s Belmarsh prison since April 2019. The...
Police Arrest Pregnant Woman Over Social Media Post
Welcome to the state of Victoria, September 2020, where police officers walk into a 28-year old, pregnant woman’s home, handcuff and arrest her in front of her child while she is wearing pyjamas and seize her computers and mobile phones...
