The Incarcerated Trans and Gender Diverse Community Fund: A Chat With Witt Gorrie
A fund to provide support for trans and gender diverse inmates appeared online on 7 October, and within a week it had reached its goal of $30,000. And as the donations have only continued to climb, the organisers’ aim to...
Calls for Reform Around Police Body-Worn Cameras: An Interview With ALA’s Jeremy King
A recent Victoria County Court decision has renewed calls in that state to have the laws governing body-worn cameras overhauled. Last month, Judge Sandra Davis found there’s nothing in the law that requires footage from such cameras to be produced...
The Budget’s Climate Denial: An Interview With Economics Professor John Quiggin
University of Queensland Professor John Quiggin is an economist, who’s had a focus on the environment that goes back years. A former member of the Climate Change Authority, the academic has written on policy topics that range from changing climate...
Sydney University Caught Colluding With NSW Police Over Protests: The SRC’s Jack Mansell Speaks Out
Since late July, reports on the overpolicing of COVID safe student and staff demonstrations at Sydney University have been doing the rounds of both social and mainstream media. Riot squad, mounted and general duties officers have all been deployed in...
Ensuring Aboriginal Affordable Housing in Redfern-Waterloo: An Interview With Warren Roberts
As Professor Gary Foley recalls in his history of the Black Power movement in Redfern, the inner city suburb is of particular significance to First Nations people in Warrang-Sydney. It was the centre for the rising Aboriginal rights movement back...
We Will Stop the “Ludicrous” Narrabri Gas Project, Says Knitting Nannas’ Kathy McKenzie
“It’s not a good look loading little old ladies with osteoporosis into paddy wagons.” The NSW Independent Planning Commission (IPC) gave Santos approval to move ahead with its $3.6 billion Narrabri Gas Project on 30 September. The highly opposed plan...
The Australian Government “Has to Get Involved”: Greg Barns SC on the Plight of Assange
Last week marked the close of evidence in the current proceedings involving Julian Assange. The United States is attempting to have the Australian journalist and publisher extradited from the UK, under the UK-US Extradition Treaty. This is somewhat suspect as...
China Rolls Out Forced Labour Camps in Tibet: An Interview With ATC’s Gemima Harvey
Seventy one years after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) first sent in troops to begin its takeover of the free and independent nation of Tibet, Beijing is again escalating its project of decimating the culture and society of the sovereign...
“It Should Put all Australians on Notice”: Wilkie on the Unjust Assange Extradition Trial
The judge presiding over Julian Assange’s extradition case, Judge Vanessa Baraitser, indicated last week that she wouldn’t be making a decision on whether the Australian journalist and publisher will be sent to the United States, until after the November election....
NSW Police Intimidate Student Lunch Meeting: An Interview With Democracy Is Essential’s Chloe Rafferty
Sydney University students Chloe Rafferty and Holly Hayne were making their way over to a lunchtime student organising meeting last Friday that was about to be held at a campus park area, when three NSW police general duty officers approached...
