“No Time to Waste”: Harbour Bridge Protester and Firefighter Alan Glover on Voting for Climate
As Alan Glover was driving a small truck towards the Sydney Harbour Bridge on 13 April 2022, the volunteer firefighter of four decades told those watching a livestream that he and his fellow Fireproof Australia protesters were taking park in the...
Occupying Perrottet Over Coal Expansion: An Interview With Rising Tide’s Shaun Murray
Rising Tide Australia occupied NSW premier Dominic Perrottet’s electoral office in Epping a week out from the NSW election. And the group of around 15 climate defenders, half of whom were high school students, took over the space with the...
In Our Blood: Sex Worker Rights Advocate Julie Bates Reflects on the ABC Miniseries
This Sunday night sees the ABC screening the first episode of the four part miniseries In Our Blood, which is a depiction of how the Australian government handled the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s, with the government approach taken having been...
Seen to Be Taking Action: Sydney Climate Coalition’s James Supple on the Safeguard Mechanism
As soon as the Albanese government took over in May 2022, international media commentators began referring to the new administration as forward-thinking on the issue of climate, in stark contrast to those who’d been voted out. Indeed, under then prime...
“If Not Us, Then Who?”: An Interview With Animal Justice Party Candidate Alison Waters
As Australian animal rights pioneer Linda Stoner remarked at a recent rally in Sydney, back in the 1970s, when she first became a vegetarian after reading academic Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation, trying to find a restaurant that could facilitate her...
Locked Up for Telling the Truth: Activist Stephen Langford on Rising Authoritarianism
Sydney activist Stephen Langford was arrested on 2 March, over having stuck several pieces of A4 paper - each with an 1816 NSW governor Lachlan Macquarie directive printed upon it - on a statue of the same man that’s situated at...
Taxpayers Fund Forest Depletion in NSW: Knitting Nanna Dominique Jacobs on Stopping Logging
The extreme climate-driven bushfires over the summer of 2019/20 burnt down 20 percent of mainland forest. And one might expect such devastation would lead authorities to rush to preserve the pockets of remaining wildlife, however this is Australia. Indeed, in the...
Victorian Medical Cannabis Driving Reform Likely: Interview With Legalise Cannabis MLC David Ettershank
Right now, medicinal cannabis driving reform looks like it will progress through Victorian parliament, which involves an amendment that many progressive politicians have tried to see enacted in various Australian mainland jurisdictions in the past to no avail. Cannabis medicine...
“Censorship by Omission”: Megan Krakouer on the Suppression of Black Opposition to the Voice
For anyone who’s been paying attention, it comes as no surprise that there’s a strong First Nations resistance to the Indigenous Voice to parliament that began as the Uluru Statement from the Heart, which contains the proposal, was being unveiled at...
NSW Police with Drug Dogs Saturate Global Mardi Gras: An Interview With Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann
The Australian prime minister marching in the Sydney Mardi Gras this year marked a stark shift in societal values as compared with the first time the event was staged in 1978, which saw the NSW police violently set upon the...
