The Nats Are Still Attempting to Kill Off Koalas: An Interview With Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann
The decades-long association between the NSW Liberal Party and the Nationals known as the Coalition was almost brought to an end in mid-September, when deputy premier and Nats leader John Barilaro threatened to march his entire party over to the...
Punishing, Silencing and Detaining the Innocent: An Interview With Refugee Farhad Rahmati
On 29 October 2020, refugee Farhad Rahmati was forcibly removed from the Brisbane Immigration Transit Accommodation (BITA) facility and taken to the nearby airport, where he was handcuffed, placed on a plane, flown down to Sydney and locked up at...
Desecration on Djab Wurrung Country: An Interview With Senator Lidia Thorpe
On the day that the Andrews government lifted its COVID-19 restrictions, it also sent in Victoria police to arrest and forcibly remove around 60 peaceful protesters at the site of the Djab Wurrung Heritage Protection Embassy. And on the day...
Freeing the Refugees Will Free Our Nation: Craig Foster Calls Game Over
Former Socceroo and current human rights campaigner Craig Foster and NRL star Sonny Bill Williams were down in Canberra last week to present federal parliament with a petition calling on the government to accept New Zealand’s offer to resettle refugees...
“A Massive Victory”: Democracy Is Essential’s Eleanor Morley on Lifting the Protest Ban
As NSW police officers began picking up Sydney University students non-violently protesting and, at a distance, hurling them onto the footpath, it was quite clear that something had gotten out of hand. And it seems that state authorities finally agreed....
Supporting Refugees Made Destitute by Dutton: An Interview With BMRSG’s Brendan Doyle
It was clear by August this year that the economy was in deep recession due to the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the number of unemployed people having risen to over one million since the societywide lockdown....
“The Government Has Shown No Mercy”: Dane de Leon on a KP120 Refugee Suicide Attempt
Saif Ali Saif has been one of the 120-odd former offshore asylum-seeking detainees, who have been staging a daily afternoon protest on the balcony of Brisbane’s Kangaroo Point Central Hotel since April this year. Known as the KP120, the men...
Violence Against Protesters Was Unprovoked: An Interview With USYD Law Professor Simon Rice
Of late, Sydney University Law Professor Simon Rice has been running an extracurricular project, which involves overseeing some students working on reforming protest laws. Indeed, over recent years, state laws have been gradually encroaching upon the right to demonstrate. So,...
Running the PM Out of Brisbane: An Interview With Refugee Solidarity Meanjin
Just after prime minister Scott Morrison entered the Australian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology at Queensland University on the morning of 12 October, a group of refugee rights activists emerged out of nowhere to commence demonstrating. The protesters doused the...
Boycott Israeli Apartheid: An Interview With BDS Australia’s Nasser Mashni
Increasingly, the use of the word apartheid is being applied to the system of governance that’s currently operating in the nation known as Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories - the land of historic Palestine. In mid-2018, the Knesset (Israeli...
