Complaint Lodged Against Peter Dutton for Inciting Hatred Towards Palestinians
Australian law firm Birchgrove Legal has lodged a claim against Liberal opposition leader Peter Dutton with the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), outlining that the politician who has the potential to be this nation’s next prime minister has been partaking...
Duopoly Killjoys Cannabis Bill, as Historic First Vote Takes Place in Federal Parliament
NSW Greens Senator David Shoebridge is the first federal parliamentarian to have brought on a parliamentary vote on the question of legalising cannabis before Australian parliament, and there is a hell of a lot of people in the community that...
“Important to Stand with Us”: Dunghutti Activist Paul Silva on Rallying for First Nations Justice
The last 14 months around the globe have been marked by the horrors of the Israeli-perpetrated genocide in Gaza and also the rising realisation that western forces that have committed mass destruction upon Indigenous peoples in the past continue to...
Final Rejection of Illegal COVID Policing as All Remaining Fines Are Revoked
New South Wales commissioner of fines administration, Scott Johnson, announced on Tuesday, 26 November 2024 that following legal representations made to him and the NSW police commissioner, he’d determined that the remaining 23,539 COVID-19 penalty notices that were issued to...
Wollongong Friends of Palestine’s Jet Hunt on the Ongoing Bisalloy Steel Community Picket
According to Wollongong Friends of Palestine organiser Jet Hunt, a “strong appetite for mass militancy” has taken hold across grassroots Australia, ever since Israeli forces unleashed a genocidal assault upon the Palestinians of the walled-in Gaza Strip fourteen months ago,...
“Deeply Ingrained Systemic Racism”: Wunna Nyiyaparli Elder Ailsa Roy on the Plight of Her People
The Wunna Nyiyaparli people of Western Australia’s eastern Pilbara region live close to land and their traditional way of life and customs, yet encroachments by mining companies onto their iron ore rich Country has resulted in a situation whereby they’re...
People’s Protest Scores a Resounding Victory Over State Repression as Coal Ship Blocked
A wave of euphoria swept across the thousands of civilians crowding Newcastle’s Horseshoe Beach at around 11.30 am on Sunday, as word spread that the 200-odd kayakers who’d managed to block the shipping lane into Newcastle Coal Port against the...
Japan to Join Broadening US Force Posture in North Australia, Unless Trump Pulls the Plug
The 17th Trilateral Defence Ministers’ Meeting involving Australia, the US and Japan took place in Darwin on Sunday, 17 November, marking the first such meeting on local soil, and the big announcement of the day was that regular deployments of...
International Criminal Court Issues Global Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant
Six months after its first announcement, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on Thursday, 21 November, in relation to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and that nation’s former defence minister Yoav Gallant in response to a swag of alleged...
Victorian Medicinal Cannabis Drivers to No Longer Face Automatic Loss of Licence, But NSW Continues Zero Tolerance
As of March next year, Victorians who use medicinal cannabis will no longer face automatic loss of licence after testing positive to the illegal practice of driving with any presence of the psychoactive component of cannabis, or THC, in their...
