Interviews

“I’m Going to Be a Bulldozer”: Former NSW Magistrate Pat O’Shane Eyes Off Canberra

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

“Torturing Innocent People”: Activist Claire Gomez on Freeing the Park Refugees

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After having locked up Novak Djokovic in the same immigration prison as over two dozen former offshore detainees - whilst his government drew out the media spectacle around whether to deport him - the PM decided to tell a blatant...

The Pilliga Project: The Documentary-Makers on Preventing Narrabri Gas Devastation

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In the midst of a pandemic, just half a year after a climate-driven bushfire destroyed large tracts of land, and not long following a years-long drought having devastated the country’s southeast, PM Scott Morrison stood before the nation to unleash...

“A Highly Politicised Use of Police”: Shoebridge on COVID Policing, Quotas and Drug Dogs

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The NSW Police Force has dropped its controversial policy of providing each area command across the state with a set of personal search and move-on order targets that officers were expected to meet over a financial year. The quotas, or...

March This Invasion Day: NSWALRA’s Clayton Simpson-Pitt on the Sydney Rally

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This 26th of January marks 234 years since the British ships arrived at Kamay-Botany Bay to commence a colonial project that involved genocide upon and the dispossession of the hundreds of First Nations that exist right across the continent now...
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