Spotlight on Overdose: An Interview With AIVL CEO Jake Docker
Despite being an abject failure from its inception, the war on drugs continues and its casualties are mounting. Although its victims are not illicit substances, and nor are they those who profiteer from their manufacture or trafficking. Those who’ve primarily...
Decriminalising Drugs to Save Lives: An Interview With Reason Leader Fiona Patten
“The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world,” declared the Global Commission on Drug Policy, in its June 2011 report. And the commission holds serious weight being made up of leading intellectuals and...
Join the Radical Counter Mardi Gras: An Interview With Pride in Protests’ Wei Thai-Haynes
The second Mardi Gras Rally is set to take over Darlinghurst’s Oxford Street on 5 March. This counter event to the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade is being staged as organisers assert the official procession has lost its radical...
Anglican Alumni Oppose the Religious Bill: An Interview With Ex-SCEGGS Student James Kong
The half-decade-long religious freedoms debate came to a head last week, when the prime minister’s prejudicial project, the Religious Discrimination Bill, was shelved after it looked like religious schools would lose their power to expel students on the basis of gender...
“I’m Going to Be a Bulldozer”: Former NSW Magistrate Pat O’Shane Eyes Off Canberra
Pat O’Shane has long been a force to be reckoned with. And the former NSW Magistrate intends to take her trailblazing attitude into this nation’s seat of government with the aim of forging much-needed change in the areas of climate,...
Sexual Violence Supports Need Strengthening, Say’s Full Stop Australia’s Hayley Foster
The Australian Bureau of Statistics released data last week outlining that police agencies had recorded 53,570 sexual assault offenders over the ten years ending in June 2020, which included a 13 percent increase in the number of male offenders. This was...
An Australian Criminal Cases Review Commission: An Interview With Former High Court Justice Michael Kirby
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 of Justice in...
Protest the Religious Discrimination Bill Before It’s Too Late, Says CARR’s April
Morrison’s term in office has done a lot of harm to this country. However, possibly the greatest setback the current government poses to the nation is yet to come, with its potential to see the Religious Discrimination Act 2021 (RD Bill)...
The Genocide Games: AUTWA’s Ramila Chanisheff on Boycotting the Beijing Olympics
The independent Uyghur Tribunal delivered its final report in December, outlining that it found China’s treatment of the Uyghur people living in the province of Xinjiang - known to the Indigenous people as East Turkestan - amounts to genocide. While French parliamentarians...
Boycott Beijing’s Sportswashing: An Interview With Australia Tibet Council’s Dr Zoe Bedford
The Australia Tibet Council, and other human rights groups, staged a rally out the front of the Channel 7 studios in Sydney’s Martin Place last Friday. Those demonstrating were calling out the television network for its part in broadcasting the Beijing...
