Young First Nations Man Left Untreated After Being Bashed by Prison Guards at Long Bay
A young Aboriginal inmate was allegedly bashed by Corrective Services NSW immediate action team officers at Long Bay Correctional Facility on 25 January, after he’d been repeatedly gassed in his cell in the days leading up to the incident. Elyas...
Foreign Actors and Criminals Rather than Local Protesters Are Likely Behind Antisemitic Attacks
Deputy commissioner of the New South Wales Police Force, David Hudson, told reporters on Thursday that detectives are considering whether a caravan packed with explosives found abandoned on the side of Derriwong Road in the northwestern semirural Sydney suburb of...
Police Brutality at Disrupt Land Forces Protests Goes Unchecked in Victoria
The scenes of police brutality coming out of Naarm-Melbourne during the Disrupt Lands Forces protests that served to counter the global weapons manufacturer expo Land Forces 2024, which was taking place at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) over...
It’s About Self-Representation, Not Protest: Independent Dr Ziad Basyouny on Taking Watson
The appearance of Independent for Watson Dr Ziad Basyouny on that seat’s 2025 federal election ballot paper must be proving unsettling for current electorate holder immigration minister Tony Burke, who’s now sat comfortably in the seat for two decades, as...
NSW Police Officers Continue to Engage in Misconduct with Impunity
A New South Wales police sergeant on a long drive with two junior officers in November 2023, refused to allow the car to stop when one of his colleagues needed to use the bathroom. Rather, the senior officer suggested the...
DNA Profiling Is Key to Modern Criminal Investigation: Interview with DNA Expert Helen Roebuck
Prior to the widespread roll out and application of DNA testing techniques in law enforcement investigations in the 1990s, police detectives were reliant upon fingerprinting, the analysis of physical evidence and witness testimonies, which unlike DNA evidence, can lead to...
Escalating Neo-Nazis Demonstrations Rear Their Heads Again on 26 January 2025
Neo-Nazis of the National Socialist Network have continued their close-to-two-year-long practice of openly rallying as adherents of the Nazi doctrine on Australian streets. This time it was in Yerta-Adelaide on 26 January 2025, in an obvious attempt to heighten tensions...
First Nations Rally on Gadigal Asserts Aboriginal Sovereignty This 26th of January
Thousands upon thousands of First Nations peoples and their allies filled the city street that runs along unceded Gadigal land, known as Sydney’s Broadway on Sunday. On reaching their final destination, Isabel Coe Memorial Park, otherwise known as Camperdown’s Victoria...
Sovereignty Day Rally on Gadigal Land 26 January 2025: In Photos
A massive outpouring of over 10,000 First Nations people and their allies gathered on unceded Gadigal land in Sydney’s Belmore Park to protest the ongoing dispossession, denial of self-determination and genocide that’s been taking place on this continent in respect...
Trump’s Authoritarianism Has Already Reshaped Western Politics
Over the last week, the newly incumbent Trump administration has both reshaped the domestic politics of the United States and also those of the western world, as his onslaught of authoritarian executive orders issued over his first days in office...
