Lawyers Call For Drug Law Reform: An Interview With ALA’s Greg Barns
“The war on drugs has failed” is a common catchphrase these days. Ever-increasing numbers within the community are coming to realise that the great edifice of heavily enforced drug prohibition is more destructive on a societal and individual level than...
The Myth of the Far-Right Lone Actor: An Interview With Researcher Dr Kaz Ross
Monday, 15 March 2021 marks the second anniversary of the Christchurch massacre: a terrorist attack that involved an Anglo Australian man entering two mosques in the largest city on NZ’s South Island and gunning down multiple victims, 51 of whom...
Empowering Disadvantaged Youth: An Interview With YSMP’s Uncle Dave Bell
For the past twenty years, the Young Spirit Mentoring Program (YSMP) has been empowering disadvantaged youth from Liverpool, Campbelltown and surrounding areas. Indeed, around 10,000 local kids have benefited from the program. Run by respected community leader Uncle Dave Bell,...
Australia Must Declare Uyghur Genocide: An Interview With AUA’s Bahtiyar Bora
Right now, the Chinese government is perpetrating a genocide in the western province of Xinjiang: the homeland of the Uyghur people, which is locally known as the nation of East Turkistan. Indeed, the evidence emerging makes it increasingly clear that...
Morrison Impoverishes Jobless, Calls It a Raise: An Interview With AUWU’s Kristen O’Connell
Prior to the onset of COVID-19, the last time a federal government raised unemployment benefits in real terms was in 1994, way back when Keating was in power. This was despite ongoing and concerted campaigns over the years that called...
Alternate Mardi Gras to March on Oxford: An Interview With Pride in Protest’s Evan Van Zijl
Due to the global pandemic, the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade will take place at the Sydney Cricket Ground. However, the event’s spiritual home, Oxford Street Darlinghurst, will not be left wanting, as an alternative march is set...
NSW Greens Deliver Workable and Timely Cannabis Legalisation Bill
NSW Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann has introduced a bill into state parliament that aims to establish a regulated retail cannabis market in NSW - as well as decent provisions for homegrow - at a time when, if world trends are...
Australia’s Immigration Policy Is Unfairly Impacting NZ Citizens: An Interview With Oz Kiwi’s Joanne Cox
The 1973 Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement is an agreement between the Australian and New Zealand governments that permits the free flow of citizens between each nation. The TTTA formally acknowledged a pre-existing open-door policy. As of 1 September 1994, all noncitizens...
The Privatising Public Housing Con: An Interview With UNSW City Future’s Dr Alistair Sisson
The Explorer Street public housing estate in inner city South Eveleigh is comprised of 46 one and two storey town houses built in the early 1990s. To stand in front of it, it’s hard to see why the Berejiklian government...
AIVL’s Melanie Walker on Coming Drug Decriminalisation and Treatment Access
ACT Labor MLA Michael Pettersson has yet again set his sights on reforming the Canberra community. This time it’s in the form of just introduced legislation that would see the decriminalisation of the personal possession and use of illicit substances...
