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...
Protect Trans Kids, Kill Latham’s Bills: An Interview With CARR’s April
Leader of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party in NSW Mark Latham seems to have issues with sexuality. And the 59-year-old cis-gendered heterosexual male member of the NSW Legislative Council seems to have a particular hang up about transgender and gender...
“A Blatant Attempt to Repress Protests”: An Interview With Sydney Uni Arrestee Adam Adelpour
The NSW Liberals and ailing Nationals government announced on 17 September that in a fortnight’s time it would be allowing crowds of up to 40,000 people attend stadium events, as the owners of these venues have provided detailed COVID Safe...
NSW Police Bust Up Legal Campus Protests: An Interview With Student Activist Kelton Muir
For those who haven’t been following, NSW police has been enforcing an unofficial ban on protests since late July. Under the COVID-19 public health order on gatherings, outdoor meetings or assemblies “for a common purpose” of more than 20 people...
Don’t Bring the Drug Dogs Back: An Interview With Sniff Off’s Xiaoran Shi
On the evening of 10 September, the Sniff Off Facebook page alerted its close to 85,000 followers that police officers with a drug dog had been spotted at Blacktown Station. The post noted that this was the first time a...
