The NSW Police Powers Unlocked by the Commissioner’s Terrorism Designation
A panic over terrorism has hit New South Wales, following a recent mass murder and another nonfatal stabbing incident in this state. NSW police commissioner Karen Webb determined that the nonlethal knife crime was an act of terrorism under the...
Government Uses Stabbings and Terrorism Raids to Justify Crackdown on Free Speech
ASIO boss Mike Burges and AFP commissioner Reece Kershaw appeared at the National Press Club on Wednesday, to stress the need for a crackdown on internet freedoms in the wake of recent Sydney stabbings and raids, although these events had...
Thought Crime Becomes a Reality in Latest NSW Police ‘Terrorism’ Operation
Sydney breathed a sigh of relief on Wednesday afternoon, as New South Wales police announced announced that Operation Mingary, which comprised 400 officers deployed to thirteen locations across the city’s west, had resulted in seven “juveniles” being arrested, so we’re...
‘Forging Justice When Our Leaders Fail Us’: Helen O’Sullivan Sets Sail on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
University of Queensland educator Helen O’Sullivan is currently over in Türkiye about to set sail on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, which comprises of three ships attempting to deliver much-needed food and aid to the 2.3 million Palestinians of the Gaza...
Proselytising from the NSW Lower House, and the Rise of Faith in State Politics
“Well look, I’d just say that obviously in a city as big as Sydney, in a state as big as NSW, when you’ve got a multicultural, multifaith community, it’s hard to get 100 percent of those communities and those members...
Talking Peace on ANZAC Day: An Interview with Raising Peace’s James Cox
“Australia can become a global champion of peace” asserts a recently issued statement from Raising Peace for ANZAC Day 2024, in which the peace alliance network outlines that while remembering fallen soldiers, the reflection shouldn’t be through a “war first”...
Former NSW DPP Nicholas Cowdery Calls on NSW Government to Reform Drug Laws
“We should all be accustomed by now to government promises - before and after elections - being broken or modified and this seems to be just another example,” former NSW Director of Public Prosecutions Nicolas Cowdery said, regarding the go-slow...
Immediate Mass Mobilisation Required: A15 Action Naarm Activists on the Initial Escalation
AFR had a report out by midday on Monday 15 April, which featured Melbourne businesses “bracing” for more disruptions that afternoon, as the morning saw successful disruptions across Naarm, whether that be of roads, retail outlets or weapons manufacturing facilities....
The Gadigal-Sydney Pro-Palestinian Mass Protest: Six-Months of Nonviolent Social Cohesion
“We the people will not stand for genocide. We the people stand with our brothers and sisters in Gaza and all of Palestine,” said Mohamed Zorob, as he led the 21 April Gadigal-Sydney Free Palestine rally in chant. “We the...
Government Vaping Prohibitions Are Making Cigarettes the Easier Alternative
“The fact is they are vastly safer than smoking, and what I am here to say is, we need to stop this black market,” Dr Colin Mendelsohn told a NSW vaping inquiry last week. “We are not going to stop...
