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...
Australia’s Criminal Justice Crackdown on Kids Recognised in Global Report
In its annual assessment of human rights practices in over 100 countries in 2024, Human Rights Watch drew attention to this nation’s reversals of the rights of children in its criminal justice system, which last year saw something of a...
AFP Suggests Foreign Actors Are Paying Locals to Commit Antisemitic Crimes
The insinuations linking the much-demonised local pro-Palestinian movement that formed in opposition to the Israeli state-perpetrated Gaza genocide to a spate of antisemitic attacks in NSW and Victoria appear to be dissipating, as AFP commissioner Reece Kershaw suggested on Tuesday...
Peter Dutton’s Paternalistic Election Promises Hint at a Potential NT Intervention 2.0
With a federal election looming, opposition leader Peter Dutton broke early from the starting blocks this month to deliver an assortment of racist dog whistling statements that began with his repeating his concerns in regard to Indigenous flags and ended...
Protest the Invasion of Aboriginal Land This 26th of January: Interview with Dunghutti Activist Paul Silva
The Invasion Day rally on Gadigal land 2025 is set to commence this Sunday at Sydney’s Belmore Park at 10 am. The 26th of January this year marks 237 years since British ships pulled up in what’s today known as...
NSW Government Uses Antisemitic Incidents to Toughen Hate Speech and Anti-Protest Laws
Amidst ongoing antisemitic attacks in Sydney, New South Wales premier Chris Minns announced on 19 January 2025 that his administration has come to the “difficult decision” to toughen NSW hate speech law and the anti-protest regime. But to claim that...
Knocking Albo Off His Perch: An Interview with Greens for Grayndler’s Hannah Thomas
Encompassing Sydney’s Inner West region, the federal seat of Grayndler is known for having some of the most progressive voters in NSW and right across the country. The seat of Grayndler has been held by current prime minister Anthony Albanese...
Envoy Calls for Specific Antisemitism Offences, Rather Than Laws That Protect All
“Condemnation is great and important but not sufficient. We need to see perpetrators of antisemitic incidents arrested, prosecuted and then penalties that fit the crime imposed,” said Australia’s antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal this week. “And the prime minister said the...
Dan Duggan Appeals Attorney General’s Decision to Extradite Him to the US
Dan Duggan’s legal team has commenced proceedings with the Federal Court of Australia to appeal the recent Australian attorney general decision to extradite the father-of-six children to the United States over a secret 2017 US grand jury indictment that contains...
