Federal Politician Calls for Tougher Laws to Combat NSW Youth Crime Wave That Does Not Exist
“Some of these older kids, they really need to be locked up, whether in juvenile detention centres or whatever,” said federal Nationals MP Kevin Hogan, whose NSW electoral seat of Page sits on the lands of the Bundjalung and Gumbaynggirr...
McBride Continues to Be the Only One Stewing in Prison Over Afghan War Crimes
Australian Defence Force whistleblower David McBride continues to be the only individual in prison with a connection to Australian war crimes allegedly perpetrated by this nation’s special forces (SAS) troops in Afghanistan over the course of Australia’s participation in the...
International Intervention in Gaza Is Necessary, Asserts Australian Peace Network
For the last three months, Israel has been conjuring Hell on Earth in northern Gaza. In October 2024, the apartheid state commenced a fresh offensive in the north of the 40-kilometre walled-in region, which it continues into the present. This...
UN Finds Australia Is Responsible and Owes Compensation for Rights Violations on Nauru
The United Nations Human Rights Committee (CCPR) has determined that in transferring 24 unaccompanied minors from the Global South, who were seeking asylum, to offshore detention in Nauru in 2014 was definitely in breach of the rights contained in the...
Trump’s Vision of Force, Provocation and Colonisation Represents a Global Threat
The Donald Trump who gave a speech on 7 January 2025 at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida ahead of his inauguration appeared a very different president-elect than the one taking office in 2017. And the current self-assurance the incoming head...
Australia’s Chief Lawmaker to Travel to Israel to Absolve Atrocities and Appease War Criminals
Towards the end of 2024, the federal Labor government made a few bold moves on the international stage in terms of Israel. This occurred after 12 months of unbridled support for Tel Aviv as it’s been perpetrating a heinous mass...
Rising Islamophobia Goes Unchecked, Asserts Egyptian Mother from Bankstown Kmart Attack
The footage of Kelly Farrugia dramatically marching down an aisle in Bankstown Kmart, before launching into a hate-filled tirade at around 3.45 pm on Friday 20 December 2024 went viral just before Christmas. The Egyptian mother whom the white Australian...
The Chilling Effect of the NSW Antiprotest Regime Appears to Be Waning
The 2022 New South Wales antiprotest regime was put to one of its most significant tests on Awabakal and Worimi land in the regional city of Newcastle late last November, and it appeared that the deterrent effect these laws and...
Northern Territory Bail Reforms Target First Nations Youths, Warns Justice Not Jails
The Country Liberal Party (CLP) took office in the Northern Territory in August last year, having been elected on a platform that prioritised cracking down on youth crime. This involved now NT chief minister Lia Finocchiaro and her colleagues, all...
The Demonisation of Antiwar Activists Is Afoot, Explains Wage Peace’s Margaret Pestorius
The Queensland Police Service Counterterrorism Investigation Unit executed five search warrants across Magandjin-Brisbane on 23 January last year, in relation to two nonviolent antiwar demonstrations that had recently taken place in the southeast of the state. Wage Peace activist educator...
