Jesus the Agitator and the Perrottet Anti-Protest Regime: An Interview With Historian Diane Fieldes
The right to protest is under attack in the state of NSW, elsewhere around the country and, indeed, across the western world. And the reason for this is well understood: disruptive protests are drawing attention to the escalating climate crisis and...
Prisoners Must be Given Access to Medicare, Says Gerry Georgatos
Australia has a growing issue with incarcerating people, especially First Nations adults and children, and this habit of dealing with society’s most disadvantaged and marginalised people by hiding them in correctional institutions, extends to denying them regular healthcare inside. Successive...
The Wieambilla Shootout Exposes Systemic Issues, Warns Gun Control Australia’s Roland Browne
In the wake of the Wieambilla killings, Gun Control Australia has called on the Palaszczuk government to release the information it’s withholding relating to the recent massacre that occurred at a remote property in the Queensland Western Downs region. On 12...
Labor Must Act on Permanent Protection for All, Says Refugee Action Coalition’s Ian Rintoul
The Albanese government announced via the Herald early last week, that it will be granting 19,000 refugees, currently living within the community under temporary protection, permanent visas sometime in the new year. The 19,000 refugees in question are currently on temporary...
We’re Going to Swing Between Increasingly Deadly Mass Fires and Floods, Warns Violet Coco
When Violet Coco returned to the Downing Centre Court on 13 December 2022 for a further bail application after initially having her bail refused, a huge crowd of representatives from various civil society groups galvanised into one movement, spurred on...
Calls for an Australian Criminal Cases Review Commission: An Interview With Former High Court Justice Michael Kirby
From Februrary 2022: Michael Kirby has recently completed a chapter for a Canadian legal publication, in which the esteemed former High Court Justice outlines the need for more thorough safeguards against unjust convictions in this country. Within the chapter Miscarriages...
“I Am Proud of the Position I Have Taken”: ADF Whistleblower David McBride on Standing Up for Truth
The 17th recommendation made in the May 2021 report of the Senate inquiry into press freedom was that the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions reconsider continuing the case against ADF whistleblower David McBride “on strong public interest grounds”. The inquiry was...
“The Weakest Proposal for the Advancement of Aboriginal People”: Michael Mansell on the Voice
According to the PM, the Voice to Parliament referendum is set to be put to the Australian constituency in the second half of next year. And the results of a poll released this week, show that 50 percent of the population...
Climate Defender Emma Dorge Takes Plea Deal Over Nonviolent Direct Action
Climate defender Emma Dorge went before the Downing Centre Local Court on Wednesday, 14 December 2022 over charges relating to her having suspended herself by a bipod to the side of a Port Botany freight bridge blocking all rail coming...
Andrews Protest Crackdown Is Growing the Movement, Says GECO’s Tuffy Morwitzer
In the aftermath of the 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires, which saw two-thirds of protected East Gippsland forest burnt to the ground, the Andrews government immediately determined to greenlight the ongoing logging of the region without making any accommodation for loss. Needless...
