Fake Covid-19 Treatments Sold for Big Bucks on the Dark Web
The fear and panic caused by Covid-19 across the globe has provided online criminals with an avenue to profit. Potential ‘cures’ and ‘vaccines’ are being sold on the dark web for thousands of dollars. A research study into activity on...
Covid 19 Tracking App: To Download, or Not To Download?
More than two million people have downloaded the Federal Government’s COVIDSafe app since its release on Sunday, and the government is hoping for about 3 million more Australians to do so. But many are concerned about the app for a...
“An Act of Negligence”: An Interview With COVID Prison Watch’s Miranda Gibson
The NSW government passed a suite of emergency laws on 24 March, just as it was about to close parliament for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic. And amongst the extraordinary measures that were set in play, were provisions that...
“A Political Injustice”: An Interview With the Housing Defence Coalition’s Adam Adelpour
The Housing Defence Coalition stepped in on 20 April to prevent a St Peters tenant by the name of Layla being evicted from her place of residence. The New Zealander recently lost her job due to the COVID-19 lockdown and...
May Day Car Convoy Rally Calls for Worker Rights and Climate Action: An Interview With Rachel Evans
The May 1 Movement held the No Worker Left Behind car cavalcade protest in Sydney’s CBD on 9 April. It was drawing attention to the federal government having just passed the JobKeeper wage subsidy package, which simply neglected to cover...
Calls for DV Minister Speakman To Help Temporary Visa Holders and Provide Support
There has been much discussion of the one million plus temporary visa holders that aren’t covered under the JobKeeper package, who now - at a time when returning to their home countries is near impossible - are stuck in Australia...
COVID-19: Victoria Introduces Judge-Only Trials
One of the few rights guaranteed by the Australian Constitution is the right to a trial by jury. The right is contained in section 80 of the Constitution, which provides that: “The trial on indictment of any offence against any...
Pandemic or Not, the Morrison Squad Represents the Corporates
The current COVID-19 pandemic overshadowed the revelations around the Australian government’s dodgy dealings with Timor-Leste that Bernard Collaery set out in his recently published foreign policy history, Oil Under Troubled Water. A key issue raised in the book is that...
The Second Wave: How COVID Police Powers Could Become Permanent
The huge number of COVID-19 infections and deaths in the United States hasn’t prevented the right-wing nutjobs from taking to the streets - some bearing arms - calling for an end to lockdown restrictions and a prioritisation of economic activity...
No Social Licence for Effective App Take-Up: An Interview With Digital Rights Watch’s Lizzie O’Shea
The prime minister outlined last week that the nation might be able to start lifting some of the restrictions involved with the COVID-19 lockdown in a month’s time. And this is in part based on the proviso that at least...
