“Stand Up and Take Back Your Homelands”: Gurridyula on His Mission to Stop Adani
A few months back, a video clip featuring two Aboriginal men marching down the centre of an outback road, as one of them was rapping at the camera, was going viral on social media networks, as the power of the...
Turning Lip Service into Action: An Interview with Labor Candidate Stephen Lawrence
The recent wipe out of the Liberal Nationals in Victoria does not bode well for the Perrottet government in NSW. And with a state election looming next March, it’s more than likely that the Coalition will soon be dislodged from...
Appointing Deputy Commissioner to Reform QPS Is a Mistake, Warns Whistleblower Rick Flori
Publicly released last week, A Call for Change is a report into the Queensland Police Service response to family and domestic violence carried out by an independent commission led by Queensland Judge Deborah Richards, which has caused quite a stir. The report...
Older Women Are the Fastest Growing Cohort of Homeless, Explains Greens MLC Abigail Boyd
Research released on Tuesday outlines that based on the 2021 Census there are currently around 640,000 households nationwide with housing needs that aren’t being met, and based on projected growth, this is set to increase to 940,000 households by the year...
NSW Police Has No Place at Mardi Gras, Says Pride in Protest’s Mikhael Burnard
Pride in Protest is continuing to rally against the participation of the NSW Police Force in the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, as the organisation’s annual general meeting draws closer. And this year, the controversy involves pre-parade decency checks conducted...
Talking Rights and Mobilisation With India’s Durbar Sex Worker Collective
Sex work is said to be the oldest profession on Earth. However, unlike jurisdictions such as NSW, where laws are in place that serve to uphold the rights of sex workers, often in other regions around the globe, sex workers are...
Witch-Hunting Is Gender-Based Violence: Talking Women’s Rights With India’s North East Network
Witch-hunting is a form of communal violence that continues in some parts of the world, including the state of Assam in Northeast India. It almost always targets women, can act as punishment for tragedies with no direct relation to the...
Tibetans Storm Delhi’s Chinese Embassy Over COVID Abuses: An Interview With TYC’s Tenzin Dhonden
Seventy three members of the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) stormed the Chinese Embassy in the Indian capital of Delhi on 1 October to demand that Beijing stop using its Zero COVID policy as a means to further repress those living in occupied...
Dr Tim Anderson on His Intellectual Freedom Court Victory and “Slow Genocide” in Palestine
Dr Tim Anderson was victorious on 27 October, after having raised multiple court challenges, which appealed the decision to dismiss him from his position of Sydney University senior lecturer in political economy on the basis of a series of intellectual points...
Talking Queer Feminist Rights With Delhi’s Nazariya Foundation
After the parents of California resident Shivy Bhat learnt that their 19-year-old teenager was a trans man, they flew him to their hometown of Agra in India, confiscated his documents and electronic devices, and kept him under house arrest in...
