Blockade Australia Has Shut Down Newcastle Coal Line for 10 Days Straight: Interview With Grace
Blockade Australia is back with a vengeance, as the network of climate defenders have been busily undertaking a sustained action against the resource rail line leading from the interior out to Newcastle Coal Port: the planet’s largest such port. But...
The Ongoing Crackdown on the Naarm Palestine Rally Is Targeting the Right to Protest
The local pro-Palestinian movement has become a force to be reckoned with over the last ten months. And the focal point of it has been the massive nonviolent and family-orientated street protests that have marched through the continent’s major cities...
Drop the Criminal Charges Against Richard Boyle: His Actions Embodied Public Interest
The nation of Australia is still glowing in the wake of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange being released and returning to be with his family in this country, and rightly so. Over the last decade, a local and global grassroots campaign...
Ban on Retail Sales of Nicotine-Free Vapes Makes No Sense At All
As of Monday, 1 July 2024, vapes are only available at pharmacies throughout Australia and for the first three months, sales of the products that are designed to be a safer alternative to smoking are by prescription only. The main...
Australia Is Obliged to Investigate Citizens Fighting for Israel, Says the ACIJ’s Rawan Arraf
Within days of Israel commencing its now ten-month-long killing spree of the Palestinians within the walled-in region of Gaza, that nation’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu put out a call for its 360,000 army reservists to show up for duty, and that...
White Man Terrorism Isn’t So Terrifying, as Far-Right Plan to Behead Labor MP Ignored
A 19-year old Anglo Australian male briefly entered Newcastle Labor MP Tim Crakanthorp’s office dressed in a military-style outfit and armed with a knife on Wednesday afternoon, with the intent to behead the parliamentarian as part of a self-confessed politically-motivated...
Victoria Police Provoke Protest to Facilitate Harsher Laws, Says Renegade Solidarity Audio Force
This weekend marks the 38th week of the Free Palestine protests being held across the nation. And by all accounts, except for the disinformation being peddled by untrustworthy major party politicians, these events have been peaceful, harmonious and family-friendly. The...
Duggan’s Stewing in Maximum Over US Extradition, But Like Assange, It Ain’t Over Til It’s Over
The nation of Australia is having a moment of collective elation, and rightly so. Julian Assange has just been freed after 12 years of extralegal persecution and, after the initial shock wears off, people are suddenly aware of new hope...
As Victoria Trials Pill Testing, It’s Time to Save NSW Youths Not Punish Them with Death
In late 2015, as the volume on the pill testing campaign was turning up due to a recent spate of festival deaths, there was a boat packed with pollies guarding the waters around prohibitive state drug regimes, with then NSW...
Julian Is Coming Home: Assange’s Plea Deal Freedom Is a Victory for Us All
Footage of Julian Assange sitting in a room close by a runway at London Stansted Airport, prior to walking freely from the building towards a small passenger plane and boarding at 5 pm local time Monday afternoon, was posted at...