Vapes Are Legally Available Without Prescription in NSW, But Only at Chemists
Health minister Mark Butler’s elaborate scheme to eradicate recreational vaping in the community, had meant that since 1 July 2024, vapes had only legally been available via prescription at pharmacies. However, this came to an end on Tuesday, 1 October...
Flag Furore Reveals Politicians Are More Concerned About Symbols Than Civilian Deaths
The rogue state of Israel launched a full-scale attack in Beirut last Friday, which saw Israeli forces justify the levelling of six apartment blocks in the Lebanese capital, as, along with the hundreds of civilians killed, the attacks also resulted...
Human Rights Lawyer George Newhouse Commended by the International Bar Association
During its recent annual conference in Mexico City, the International Bar Association presented its 2024 Award for Outstanding Contribution by a Legal Practitioner to Human Rights to Iranian Canadian lawyer Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, the former Chef de Cabinet to the...
“Parliamentarians Have Taken Us For Granted”: An Interview with Muslim Votes Matter’s Dr Naser Alziyadat
The Albanese government announced on 9 July 2024 it was establishing a special envoy on antisemitism and an Islamophobia special envoy to deal with such prejudice, which said to be on the rise in the community, as a result of...
The Opaque National Anti-Corruption Commission Has Become a Bastion for Government Coverup
In the leadup to the last federal election calls for a federal ICAC, similar to the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption, were stronger than ever, and the Albanese government promised to deliver an anticorruption watchdog that would undertake fearless investigations...
“The Majority of Strip Searches Are Illegal”: An Interview with Redfern Legal Centre’s Sam Lee
The NSW Police Force conducted 2,487 strip searches in the field across this state over the financial year 2022-23. And of these searches 13.8 percent were conducted upon First Nations people, despite the Indigenous community only accounting for 3.4 percent...
The Fifty First Gadigal-Sydney Free Palestine-Free Lebanon Rally in Photos
A massive crowd turned out before Sydney Town Hall on Gadigal land on Sunday 29 September for the 51st week of the Free Palestine rally, which means Israel has continued the mass slaughter and starvation of the Palestinians of Gaza...
Labor Must Stop Trade with Israel, Declares Senator Payman Ahead of the IPAN Conference
Helplessly bearing witness to the 12-month-long wholesale slaughter in Gaza has taken its toll on the Australian constituency, especially those who have relatives trapped at the site of the genocide, and this is only being compounded by the actions of...
The Stage Is Set to Pass a Human Rights Act and the Benefits Are Only Mounting
The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights recommended the Australian government pass a Human Rights Act in May this year, as part of its inquiry into the nation’s human rights framework, which means the stage is now set for federal...
If the RoboDebt Internal Whistleblower Had Gone Public, She’d Likely Be Criminally Prosecuted
Conducted in relation to referrals made by the Royal Commission into Robodebt, the Australia Public Service taskforce inquiry report into the failed automated debt recovery scheme targeting social security recipients was released last Friday, and it outlined that 12 former...
