Police Officer Charged with Misconduct Over Alleged COVID-19 Breaches
A police officer has been charged with misconduct in public office and suspended from his duties after allegedly helping his daughter cross the Queensland border. Senior Constable Robert Eickenloff from the Queensland Police Service (QPS) was on duty when he...
Extreme COVID Law Enforcement Has Helped Fuel the Anti-Lockdown Movement
The recent use of non-lethal weapons on anti-lockdown demonstrators in Melbourne are the most extreme examples of the approach Australian government and its law enforcement agencies have taken to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. The onset of what’s now referred to as...
Disparities in Berejiklian’s COVID Response Are Leaving Vulnerable Communities Unprotected
As the state of NSW focuses upon being released from the shackles of lockdown - with those sacred 70 and 80 percent adult vaccination rates as a means of doing so - significant parts of the community are being left...
Police Brutally Assault Anti-Lockdown Protester
In amongst all the footage of this week’s Melbourne protests, a horrific video has emerged of a police officer approaching a man from behind and violently throwing him head first to the ground at Flinders Station in the CBD –...
Tradies Fight to Protect Their Livelihoods
For the third day in a row, construction workers in Melbourne have taken to the streets, resulting in violent clashes with police. The Tradies are protesting vaccination mandates and the temporary shutdown of their industry, as well as the loss...
The Far-Right Has Infiltrated the Anti-Lockdown Movement
Hundreds of protesters assembled at the Melbourne CBD headquarters of the CFMEU (the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union) on Tuesday morning, following violent clashes between protesters and riot police at the same location the day prior. Those gathered...
NSW Paramedic Launches Legal Challenge to COVID Vaccination Directive
A New South Wales paramedic suspended for refusing to have a COVID-19 vaccination has launched a legal challenge in the Supreme Court of New South Wales. John Larter has been outspoken about his stance against the NSW Government directive that...
Should Businesses Be Forced to Police Covid Orders?
With Greater Sydney set to open up in the coming weeks, the NSW Government proposes to introduce a ‘vaccine passport’ which will enable entry into a range of venues including restaurants, bars and sporting events for the vaccinated, and leave...
“Facing Another Genocide”: Government COVID Neglect of First Nations
The federal and state governments of settler colonial Australia have to some extent agreed to open up from extended periods of pandemic lockdowns and border closures, when 70 and 80 percent adult COVID-19 vaccine rates have been met. With this...
Berejiklian Abandons NSW as the Public Health Crisis Is About to Peak
At the end of the twelfth week of the Greater Sydney lockdown - a week that ended with the highest number of daily COVID-19 cases ever seen, as well as the release of a divisive roadmap to open up the...
