The Slippery Slope Towards Criminalising Criticism of Israel and Zionism
Victoria police has charged well-known Naarm-Melbourne pro-Palestinian figure Hash Tayeh with four counts of “using insulting words in public” on Friday, 7 March 2025, in relation to his having allegedly repeatedly chanted, “All Zionists are terrorists” at a rally in...
Watchdog Recommends Making It Compulsory for Police Officers to Activate Body Cameras
On storming the house of Taree man Todd McKenzie after a five-hour standoff, NSW police tactical operations officers went on to shoot the 40-year-old man in the back three times, after they’d already ordered local NSW police officers attending the...
The “Antisemitic” Terror Plot Was Fabricated, Yet Resulting Hate Crime Laws Remain
The deputy commissioners of both the AFP and the NSW police announced on Monday that a series of so-called antisemitic crimes that took place on Gadigal land in Greater Sydney over December and January, were part of an elaborate hoax...
Police Reveal “Fake Terror Plot”, After Politicians Spread False “Antisemitic” Motivation
So, it’s official, the spate of so-called “antisemitic” attacks that took place on Gadigal land in and around Sydney commencing in October 2024 and continuing until 2 February 2025, were an elaborate hoax coordinated by domestic and offshore criminal elements,...
Melbourne Symphony Again Attempts to Silence Pianist Jayson Gillham on Truth and Justice
International classical pianist Jayson Gillham is one of the brave figures, who, at the height of the Gaza genocide, broke the unofficial prohibition on speaking out in support of Palestinians during a Melbourne Symphony Orchestra hosted solo recital, and not...
Bringing Parliament to the People: Interview with Socialist Alliance for Sydney’s Rachel Evans
Well known Sydney social justice activist Rachel Evans is running on the Socialist Alliance ticket for the seat of Sydney in the upcoming May election, which is a national vote that’s expected to repeat and further progress the slide towards...
Sydney Uni Pro-Palestinian Deportation Scare Foreshadows Potential Debilitating Law Reform
The Sydney University Office of the Academic Registrar wrote to Luna, an international student from Malaysia, on 3 February 2025, to inform her that she’s the subject of an internal investigation over a potentially antisemitic incident, and as the notice...
NSW Pill Testing Is Welcomed, But No Substitute for Robust Drug Law Reform
A government-sanctioned pill testing trial happened at the two-day Yours and Owls music festival held in Wollongong last weekend. So, for the first time ever in the state of NSW, festivalgoers were able to have their illegal drugs tested for...
Former Magistrate Heilpern Continues to Call for Medicinal Cannabis Driving Defence
Medicinal cannabis became a legally prescribed medicine on 30 October 2016, and despite immense teething issues in terms of the drug initially being legal but unobtainable, the Medical Board of Australia celebrated more than one million patients prescribed by January...
Turns Out the UK AUKUS Submarines Are Just as Unviable as the US Subs
Senator David Shoebridge confirmed with Australian Submarine Agency director general vice admiral Jonathan Mead during Senate estimates on 26 February 2025 that, according to an official United Kingdom report, it’s unviable that the UK Rolls Royce facility charged with the...
