Police Officer Found Guilty of Homicide
Former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor has been found guilty of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter over the shooting death of Australian woman Justine Damond Ruszczyk. Mr Noor has been remanded in custody and faces up to 15 years in...
The Australian Government Abandoned Assange Long Ago
Australian citizen and Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange has been detained on remand, and in isolation, at London’s notorious Belmarsh maximum security prison for the last fortnight. His mother, Christine Assange, tweeted on Monday that so far, he’s been denied visits...
Civil Disobedience Required: An Interview With Extinction Rebellion’s Miriam Robinson
Hundreds of police officers from other forces were called in last week to back up London’s Metropolitan police, as it tried to clear climate change protests from parts of the city that had successfully brought those areas to a standstill....
Lest We Forget the Futility of Gallipoli
Today, Australia collectively pauses to remember those who died in battle on foreign shores. It’s a day when the legend of the Anzac is celebrated and, as journalist Scott McIntyre and presenter Yassmin Abdel-Magied recently found, a day that can’t...
Indiscriminate Slaughter: The Leaks that Led to the Targeting of Assange
Right now, Julian Assange is languishing in south London’s Belmarsh maximum security prison. He’s facing up to 12 months inside for breach of bail. And he’ll appear in Westminster Magistrates Court via video link on 2 May for a hearing...
It’s Time to Regulate Cocaine and MDMA: An Interview with Transform’s Steve Rolles
The debate around legalising recreational cannabis in this country is growing louder. What once seemed to Middle Australia like a far-out idea held by some rural hippies, nowadays, isn’t such a distant concept as the news of successful legalisation in...
Free Assange: Incarcerated for Exposing the Truth
The US government arrested an Australian citizen in a foreign country last week for a crime he allegedly committed on foreign soil. And the response by prime minister Scott Morrison and his cronies was to slap each other on the...
Julian Assange Faces Lengthy Legal Battle
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been found guilty in a British Court of breaching his bail and faces a battle against extradition to the United States. Mr Assange was arrested by British police after the new Ecuadorian President decided to...
Christchurch Terrorist Attack: Perpetrated by a ‘Law-Abiding Firearm Owner’
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has made good on her much-lauded promise to tighten her nation’s gun laws in the wake of the Christchurch terrorist attack. On Thursday, her gun law reform bill passed in parliament, with 119 votes...
Death by Stoning for Sodomy, Adultery and Rape in Brunei
As of today, a new law comes into force in the Southeast Asian sultanate of Brunei, which prescribes the penalty of death by public stoning for partaking in sexual acts with another person of the same sex. The barbaric new...
