“A Highly Politicised Use of Police”: Shoebridge on COVID Policing, Quotas and Drug Dogs
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
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...
“All Roads Lead to the Aboriginal Tent Embassy”: Gwenda Stanley on the 50th Anniversary
The 26th of January marks 50 years since the Aboriginal Tent Embassy was established on the lawns out the front of the building today known as Old Parliament House. Situated in Canberra, the Embassy operates upon Ngambri-Ngunnawal Country. The Tent Embassy...
“Brute Force and Paternalistic Grand Standing”: Sniff Off’s Olivia Barlow on NSW Police Drug Dog Use
After near on two years of the NSW government having relied on local police to heavy-handedly enforce health measures via the threat of monetary penalisation, and, if that didn’t work, brute force, premier Dominic Perrottet has let the COVID Omicron...
Stop the Dame Phyllis Frost Expansion: An Interview with Homes Not Prisons’ Karen Fletcher
On 19 March last year, the Andrews government announced a $188.9 million expansion for Victoria’s Dame Phyllis Frost Centre - a maximum security prison for women - which proposes the provision of an additional 106 new inmate beds. Increasing the capacity...
“Adani’s Mine Is Up and Running”: Frontline Action on Coal’s Andy Paine on Disrupting It
As Australia shutdown for the Christmas-New Year period, Indian mining giant Adani announced on 27 December, that it was close to sending its first shipload of coal exports from its Carmichael mine, situated in central Queensland’s Galilee Basin, overseas. The greenlighting...
Forging Social Justice in “Dickensian” Australia: Independent Gerry Georgatos Runs for Senate
Social justice is something that the Morrison government hasn’t had time for since it tripped into power in August 2018. Indeed, for neoliberals, like the prime minister, ensuring equality for all is anathema to their creed. This can be seen...
Giving Voice to Migrants and Refugees: An Interview With IMA’s Professor Bruno Di Biase
The start of the COVID-19 pandemic saw the entire nation of Australia go into lockdown. However, when 500 Victoria police officers were deployed to enforce a hard lockdown at nine public housing towers in North Melbourne and Flemington, it was...
Six Years on, Still No Justice for David Dungay Jnr, Says Dunghutti Activist Paul Silva
The footage of five Long Bay prison guards holding David Dungay Jnr facedown in the prone position on a bed, as he screams out that he can’t breathe multiple times, is not only hard to watch, but it begs why it...
Demerge Mega-Councils: An Interview With Residents for Deamalgamation’s Andrew Chuter
The 4 December elections for Inner West Council were different to the votes held at all other 127 local government areas in NSW, as the constituents in Sydney’s inner west had an extra optional question to deliberate upon, and that was whether...
