Reigniting the Aboriginal Watch Committees: An Interview With Aunty Susie Dixon
The 15 April this year marked the thirtieth anniversary of the handing down of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody final report. The document was thorough, with most agreeing that the 339 recommendations contained within it provide a...
Rallying Against COVID Passports: An Interview With No Health Passport’s Ben Lay
The European Parliament voted last week to call on the EU to support the “Indian and South African World Trade Organization (WHO) initiative for a temporary waiver on intellectual property (IP) rights for COVID-19 vaccine”, so that nations of the...
A Warning Against Another Morrison Government: An Interview With Bruce Haigh
Protesters gathered at Sydney Town Hall on 16 May to mark 12 years since the Sri Lankan government perpetrated the 2009 Mullivaikkal massacre, which took the lives of an estimated 70,000 unarmed Tamil civilians. A decades-long conflict between the majority...
Inmates Continue to Be Denied Medicare: An Interview With NSPTRP’s Connie Georgatos
Australian state and territory governments love to invest in building further prison capacity, but they tend to draw the line at funding adequate on-site healthcare for prisoners. This means that those being denied their liberty at order of the courts,...
Australia Is Complicit in Israel’s Atrocity Crimes: An Interview With ACIJ’s Rawan Arraf
As the violence in Palestine-Israel continues to escalate, so too does the mainstream media’s focus on the rockets Hamas is launching out of Gaza, despite their impact being dwarfed by the force of the sophisticated weaponry being unleashed upon civilians...
“We Just Need to Be Freed”, Says Detained Medevac Refugee Hamid Reza Yousefi
As the entire nation was in lockdown this time last year, there was widespread focus on the plight of the refugees who were being confined in close proximity within Melbourne’s Mantra Hotel and Brisbane’s Kangaroo Point Central during the outbreak...
Trans Is a Gift, Not a Threat: AusPATH’s Teddy Cook on Latham’s Anti-Trans Laws
Currently, there’s a very dangerous bill under review of a NSW parliamentary committee that seeks to effectively erase the identity of trans kids within the education system, as it would ban all staff from mentioning gender fluidity at schools via...
Religious Zealotry Is Dangerous: The Rationalist Society’s Dr Meredith Doig on the PM’s Speech
“Sure, social media has its virtues and it’s values, and it enables us to connect with people in ways we never have before,” said prime minister Scott Morrison. “Terrific, terrific, but those weapons can also be used by the Evil...
Keeping Women Out of Prison: An Interview With the Miranda Project’s Marisa Moliterno
The number of women being incarcerated in the NSW prison system has been rising at a significant rate over recent decades. And no one is suggesting this has anything to do with more women turning to a life of crime....
The Continuing Tamil Genocide in Sri Lanka: An Interview With TRC’s Charanja Thavendran
Towards the end of the decades-long Sri Lankan civil war, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) had effectively formed a functioning military state, with its own infrastructure, in the northern Tamil majority region of the island. And the town...
