A Constant Erosion of Citizens’ Rights: An Interview With Liberty Victoria’s Michael Stanton
Rights, or our lack thereof them, have become an increasing concern over the last three years of Morrison’s governance. Most overtly we saw the extreme curtailing of freedoms with the lockdowns and restrictions used as a means to prevent COVID-19...
“The Key Decisions Are Being Made in Boardrooms”: Scott Ludlam Talks State Capture
Holding the belief that the climate is changing to the detriment of people and planet, used to be unfashionable. Indeed, NSW premier Dominic Perrottet still seems to think it is. But the shock of the 2019 climate-driven megafires brought most...
Drop the Collaery Prosecution: An Interview With the Human Rights Law Centre’s Kieran Pender
Bernard Collaery was back before the courts on Wednesday, as attorney general Michaelia Cash had her lawyers arguing that she wants to introduce new “super-secret” evidence that’s so sensitive in nature that the ACT barrister wouldn’t be able to look...
When Can a Coronial Inquest Be Held in New South Wales?
Family members of missing backpacker Theo Hayez are on their way to Australia to attend the Coroner’s Inquest into the young man’s disappearance, which is due to begin later this month. Theo was at the end of a six-month holiday...
Public Interest Disclosure Laws Stall as Government Interest Reigns
High-profile whistleblowers prosecutions - or political prosecutions, as some prefer - have become a prominent feature of the rule of the Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison regime, along with the guarding of state secrets to the point that the proposition of open government is...
Religious Discrimination Laws to be Passed in New South Wales
NSW attorney general Mark Speakman announced earlier this month that the Berejiklian government will be introducing legislation to amend the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW), so that religion will be an attribute protected against discriminatory behaviour. “NSW is a proudly multicultural...
Deepening Lockdown Divisions, Pending COVID Deaths and the Pandemic Election
“If not at 70 percent and 80 percent, then when?” Scott Morrison rhetorically asked Australians at a press conference on Monday. The PM was referring to the percentage of the adult population to be fully vaxxed that will warrant those...
The Criminalisation of Whistleblowers: An Interview With Professor A J Brown
Under the Morrison government, whistleblower prosecutions are all the rage. Witness K was recently given a three month suspended sentence for his part in revealing the 2004 ASIS bugging of the Timor-Leste cabinet office, while Bernard Collaery is continuing to...
High Court Challenge to NSW Ag-Gag Laws: An Interview With Farm Transparency Project’s Chris Delforce
Animal cruelty is something the majority of the population are aghast by. And it’s for this very reason that the authorities take draconian measures to keep the horrific practices that go on within factory farms and slaughterhouses far from the...
Preventing Animal Cruelty in Law: An Interview With Animal Justice Party MLC Emma Hurst
Two weeks ago, some much overdue amendments were made to NSW animal cruelty laws that reflect the serious nature of these crimes. The new measures also reveal that our society has progressed to a point where it’s better recognising the...
