Wollongong Friends of Palestine’s Jet Hunt on the Ongoing Bisalloy Steel Community Picket
According to Wollongong Friends of Palestine organiser Jet Hunt, a “strong appetite for mass militancy” has taken hold across grassroots Australia, ever since Israeli forces unleashed a genocidal assault upon the Palestinians of the walled-in Gaza Strip fourteen months ago,...
“Deeply Ingrained Systemic Racism”: Wunna Nyiyaparli Elder Ailsa Roy on the Plight of Her People
The Wunna Nyiyaparli people of Western Australia’s eastern Pilbara region live close to land and their traditional way of life and customs, yet encroachments by mining companies onto their iron ore rich Country has resulted in a situation whereby they’re...
VicPol Raids Antiwar Protesters En Masse: Interview with Students for Palestine’s Jasmine Duff
Fifteen Victoria police officers raided the house of two university students in Naarm-Melbourne on Wednesday for allegedly having taken part in the Disrupt Land Forces protests, which seems a little odd, as the raids came 60 days after the last...
“One Hundred Days Without Any Answers”: TRC’s Renuga Inpakumar on the 24/7 Refugee Camp at Burke’s Office
As of Wednesday, 13 November 2024, the 24 Hour Continuous Protest For Permanent Visa has been stationed outside of home affairs minister Tony Burke’s electoral office in the southwestern Sydney suburb of Punchbowl for 100 days. Those involved in the...
Prosecuting the King, the Attorney General and a Netanyahu Advisor Over Genocide: A Yarn with Uncle Robbie Thorpe
The state of Israel has engaged local lawyers to represent it, on behalf of former senior advisor to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mark Regev, as the Australian Israeli diplomat has been charged with advocating genocide, contrary to section 80.2D...
Release Asian Trans Woman Detained in Villawood: Interview AMSWAG’s Damien Nguyen
A trans woman from Southeast Asia was stopped by immigration on arrival in Australia 12 weeks ago, after she was stopped and allegedly racially profiled by Australian Border Force officers, who determined on perusal of her phone content that she...
Taking Pollies on a Journey: Uniting’s Emma Maiden on the Promise of the NSW Drug Summit
The long-sought-after 2024 NSW Drug Summit will open this Friday in the southwestern regional town of Griffith, prior to moving on to the Northern Rivers town of Lismore for a day of hearings next Monday, and over the 4th and...
Making “Australia a Global Nuclear Waste Dump”: Senator Shoebridge on Labor’s Latest Betrayal
In passing the Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety Bill 2024 on Thursday last week, the Albanese government quietly got a proposition over the line in this country that had been resisted for decades and that was in the passing of...
“Parliamentarians Have Taken Us For Granted”: An Interview with Muslim Votes Matter’s Dr Naser Alziyadat
The Albanese government announced on 9 July 2024 it was establishing a special envoy on antisemitism and an Islamophobia special envoy to deal with such prejudice, which said to be on the rise in the community, as a result of...
“The Majority of Strip Searches Are Illegal”: An Interview with Redfern Legal Centre’s Sam Lee
The NSW Police Force conducted 2,487 strip searches in the field across this state over the financial year 2022-23. And of these searches 13.8 percent were conducted upon First Nations people, despite the Indigenous community only accounting for 3.4 percent...