NSW Labor Is Attempting to Kill Key LGBTIQ Reforms, Says Pride in Protest’s Rohen and Quay-Quay
Independent member for Sydney Alex Greenwich introduced the Equality Legislation Amendment (LGBTIQA+) Bill 2023, into state parliament last August, which is an omnibus piece of legislation that facilitates a range of overdue rights amendments for LGBTIQA+ people. And with the...
“No Jurisdiction Over First Nations”: Jim Everett-puralia meenamatta on Sovereigns of Country
Jim Everett-puralia meenamatta was arrested by Tasmanian police on 19 March 2024 for taking part in a Bob Brown Foundation protest to save the Styx Valley of the Giants, old growth trees situated in southeastern lutrawita-Tasmania, and he was...
“Our Actions Are Having a Political Impact”: Disrupt Wars’ Nathalie Farah on Rising Direct Action
Direct actions out the front of weapons manufacturers in Australian suburbia, which are prompted due to the production of essential parts for weapons being utilised in the Gaza genocide that’s seen Israel annihilate around 40,000 Palestinians, have been taking place...
“We Keep Us Safe, We Stop Arming Israel”: Interview with Palestinian Organiser Tasnim Sammak
The globe is bearing witness to the gravest atrocity since the Holocaust. And this, the Israeli state perpetrated genocide upon the Palestinians of Gaza, is underpinned by the same supremacist ideas and land grabbing proclivities as all settler colonial states...
Facing 35 Years Imprisonment for Disrupting Burrup Hub: Interview With DBH’s Joana Partyka
Right now, in the northern hemisphere, across Asia and Africa, the worst heatwaves ever have been playing out all at once. Temperatures have been creeping into the 50 degrees Celsius range, people have been suffering through above-40 degrees heat for...
Blockade Australia Has Shut Down Newcastle Coal Line for 10 Days Straight: Interview With Grace
Blockade Australia is back with a vengeance, as the network of climate defenders have been busily undertaking a sustained action against the resource rail line leading from the interior out to Newcastle Coal Port: the planet’s largest such port. But...
Australia Is Obliged to Investigate Citizens Fighting for Israel, Says the ACIJ’s Rawan Arraf
Within days of Israel commencing its now ten-month-long killing spree of the Palestinians within the walled-in region of Gaza, that nation’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu put out a call for its 360,000 army reservists to show up for duty, and that...
Victoria Police Provoke Protest to Facilitate Harsher Laws, Says Renegade Solidarity Audio Force
This weekend marks the 38th week of the Free Palestine protests being held across the nation. And by all accounts, except for the disinformation being peddled by untrustworthy major party politicians, these events have been peaceful, harmonious and family-friendly. The...
Academics Call for an End to Albanese’s Israel Complicity: Interview with Professor Stuart Rees
“Why collusion with this grotesque Israeli government?” Australian academics asked prime minister Anthony Albanese in a 14 June open letter, and they further raise the “sadness and despair” that his government’s unbridled support for Tel Aviv’s genocidal attack on Gaza...
The Drug Offenders Program: Shane Prince SC and Jim Finnane on Early Intervention
The hardline approach taken to psychoactive drugs has pushed their use underground, which causes barriers to seeking help for those who develop problematic use, as they’re admitting to a crime, while the funding of an ever-increasing habit can also become...
