The Soft US Military Takeover of Australia Is Simply a “Pooling of Sovereignty”
Australian sovereignty has always been tenuous, as the grounds upon which the British Crown claimed the great southern continent as its own were based on the Doctrine of Discovery and the legal concept of terra nullius, which stipulate that an...
US Case Against Duggan Is “Vague, Embarrassing and Oppressive” Lawyers Tell Dreyfus
As she stood before the press at Sydney’s Hyde Park Barracks on Monday morning, Saffrine Duggan asserted that the US can’t “just snatch Australians off the street and send them to the US based on” flawed evidence and questionable process....
NSW Police Inquiry Finds that Sending Officers to Mental Health Incidents Escalates Them
In the wake of an internal review, the NSW Police Force last Thursday released a summary of findings regarding its officers continuing to be called upon as first responders to mental health incidents, and the agency is clear in stating...
Heavily Armed Police Make Civilians Who Oppose Rising Militarism the Enemy
In the lead up to Land Forces 2024, the largest weapons show in the southern hemisphere, which was staged over Wednesday to Friday in Naarm-Melbourne, questions were raised about the organisers’ decision to shift the biannual “one stop genocide shop”...
Busting the Duopoly: Both Majors Shaking in Their Boots at Prospect of 2025 Election
“We can’t keep voting for the same two parties and expecting a different result,” said Australian Greens leader Adam Bandt at the National Press Club a fortnight ago. “Labor has lost themselves. People tell us that it is harder and...
Attorney General Waxes Lyrical About His Whistleblower Protections that Fail All
“Improved whistleblower protection has long been an interest of mine,” federal attorney general Mark Dreyfus told The Sydney Institute, during a 5 September speech he gave to the privately-funded policy forum, which was titled, Transparency and Accountability in Politics and...
Unimpaired Drivers Continue to Face Drug Driving Charges in New South Wales
The NSW Police Force conducted the four-day-long driving safety offence blitz, Operation RAID (Remove All Impaired Drivers), last week, which resulted in the detection of 6,653 driving offences in total, as officers targeted three specific impediments to safe driving: alcohol,...
A Paramilitary Victoria Police Greets Disrupt Land Forces with Its Entire Arsenal
Politicians have proven once again that police are their attack dogs, and not their to protect justice let alone the public. The streets of Naarm-Melbourne were on fire early Wednesday morning as Victoria police greeted the planned Disrupt Land Forces...
The Encryption Wars Continue as ASIO Demands Big Tech Unlock Private Messaging
The ABC’s 7.30’s Sarah Ferguson was last week invited into an ASIO 75th anniversary exhibition that’s usually only open to former ASIO officers, not just to give us a glimpse of how taxpayers are funding private shows for spooks but...
Victoria Police to Unleash Excessive Policing Powers on Disrupt Land Forces
Although Disrupt Land Forces officially kicked off on Sunday, Naarm-Melbourne’s notorious Lizard Car made an appearance on the city’s West Gate Freeway on the day prior, as it came to a halt in the middle of an offramp with a...
