The Morrison Government’s Targeted Persecution of Transgender People
Morrison’s never attempted to conceal his prejudice against LGBTIQ people. He walked out during the marriage equality vote, he’s said inclusive teen sex education makes his “skin curl”, and just after he swiped the top job, he termed school counsellors who...
Rain Bombs, Megafires, Drought: Morrison Guarantees Worst Yet to Come
The nation’s largest city, Sydney, became the frontline of the climate crisis for the first time ever in recent days, as floods that have been wiping out people’s lives and entire towns right along the eastern seaboard, suddenly gushed through...
Join the Radical Counter Mardi Gras: An Interview With Pride in Protests’ Wei Thai-Haynes
The second Mardi Gras Rally is set to take over Darlinghurst’s Oxford Street on 5 March. This counter event to the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade is being staged as organisers assert the official procession has lost its radical...
Anglican Alumni Oppose the Religious Bill: An Interview With Ex-SCEGGS Student James Kong
The half-decade-long religious freedoms debate came to a head last week, when the prime minister’s prejudicial project, the Religious Discrimination Bill, was shelved after it looked like religious schools would lose their power to expel students on the basis of gender...
Liberties Council Maintains Ending Indefinite Detention Is a Moral and Legal Obligation
The Novak Djokovic fiasco exposed the Australian government’s practice of detaining “noncitizens” indefinitely to the globe. The sports star was placed in a hotel used as an immigration prison, where 25 of the 32 men inside are processed refugees, who’ve...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 31 January to 6 February 2022
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Only Fully Vaccinated Participants Can Attend Supreme Court Trials A participant must be fully vaccinated to physically attend a Supreme Court trial, with the possible...
The Political Climate Being Conjured by Morrison Is Hardly the Way Forward
Earlier this week, it came to light that Brisbane’s Citipointe Christian College had sent out an updated enrolment contract to parents specifying that the religious school reserved the right to expel their children on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity....
Boycott Beijing’s Sportswashing: An Interview With Australia Tibet Council’s Dr Zoe Bedford
The Australia Tibet Council, and other human rights groups, staged a rally out the front of the Channel 7 studios in Sydney’s Martin Place last Friday. Those demonstrating were calling out the television network for its part in broadcasting the Beijing...
Police Officer Charged Over Brutal Assault
A police officer who approached a member of the public from behind and violently threw him to the ground, leaving him in a pool of blood and urine, has been charged with recklessly causing injury and unlawful assault. The man...
Religious Schools Retain Right to Sack LGBTQ Teachers and Expel Students, For Now
The Attorney General Department’s submission to two parliamentary reviews of the Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 (the RD Bill) confirms that the legislation does not have any effect upon religious exemptions currently contained in federal law. Section 38 of the Sex Discrimination Act...
