“You Have a Right to Know”: An Interview With Witness J
The case involves Commonwealth orders that suppress the publishing of the identification of a former Australian intelligence official or the details of the charges that led to their imprisonment. Indeed, the details of the orders themselves are classified. Dubbed Witness...
Police Abuse Powers at Kirribilli: An Interview With Greens MLC David Shoebridge
As rumours circulated about the PM having perhaps taken off to Hawaii for a holiday with his family as a well set in nationwide bushfire crisis continued, hundreds of student climate activists gathered out front of Kirribilli House on 19...
The Injustice in Chile Continues: An Interview With Pinochet-Era Activist Paula Sanchez
After more than two months of protests, the mass movement of grassroots Chileans calling for system change continues. And while the nation is often held up as a beacon of economic prosperity, those demonstrating are the overwhelming majority, who don’t...
Straight Talking Cannabis: An Interview With LoudCloudHealth’s Bojana Petkovic
Fibromyalgia is a medical condition that intensifies pain. Characterised by widespread musculoskeletal agony, fibro is often accompanied by fatigue, sleep and mood issues. It’s more common in women than men. And there’s no known cure for this neurological health disorder....
“The Coal Industry is Dead”: An Interview With Miner Turned Activist Micah Weekes
At around 6 am on 13 September last year, anti-coal protester Micah Weekes climbed on top of a 13,000 tonne freight train on Sandgate Bridge, Newcastle, with the aim of preventing it and other coal trains from making it to...
Empowering First Nations Kids to Hold Police Accountable: An Interview With ALS’ Jeremy Styles
NSW authorities had 237 youths detained in state juvenile justice centres in September this year, according to NSW Bureau of Crimes Statistics and Research figures. And of these young inmates, 105 were First Nations youths, which accounts for 44 percent...
Drug Policing Causes Most of the Harms: An Interview With Former Police Sergeant Greg Denham
Last August marked the 50th anniversary of one of the most significant music festivals of all time, Woodstock. The four day event involved the coming together of close to half a million people, and as is well-known, the hippies that...
Landmark Victory for Police Corruption Whistleblower: An Interview With Rick Flori
The Queensland Court of Appeal ruled on 3 December that a 2010 letter that well-known police corruption whistleblower Rick Flori had written to the state oversight body now referred to as the Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) was a valid...
NT Sex Workers Finally Have Decriminalisation: An Interview With SWOP NT’s Coordinator Leanne Melling
Sex workers across the NT let out a collective cheer last week, as that territory’s Legislative Assembly passed the Sex Industry Bill 2019. After long-term campaigning from within the industry, sex work in the Northern Territory will now be decriminalised. One...
The Focus Should Be on Reducing Deaths: An Interview With Jennie Ross-King
Last summer’s music festival season was unnecessarily devastating. Five young Australians died in drug-related circumstances either trying to avoid police detection or from taking drugs that they had no way of ascertaining the contents of. Harm reduction experts have been...
