Interviews

Mass Climate Refugees on the Horizon: An Interview With Dr Ian M McGregor

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An open letter declaring that “planet Earth is facing a climate emergency” -  co-signed by 11,000 scientists - was published on Tuesday. It asserts that despite the science being in on climate for 40 years, greenhouse gas emissions continue to...

“Systemic Unlawfulness”: An Interview With Dr Vicki Sentas on Police Powers

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Unsurprisingly, the recently released Rethinking Strip Searches by NSW Police report drew the ire of the force. Commissioned by the Redfern Legal Centre, the UNSW report caused reigning state police commissioner Mick Fuller to criticise it very publicly. At a...

Basta! Mass Protests of Discontent: An Interview With Chileans United’s Patrick Vasquez

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Over a million people took to the streets in downtown Santiago on 25 October, bringing a halt to major parts of the city to demand that the reactionary Piñera government bring about structural reforms in a South American nation known...

Trade Agreements Pre-empt Dissent: An Interview With AFTINET’s Dr Patricia Ranald

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Thousands of Aymara Indians held a series of protests in southern Peru back in May 2011, calling on the government to cancel the licence of the planned Santa Ana silver mine in the Puno region. The local Indigenous people asserted...

Ditch the Dogs: An Interview With Sniff Off’s David Shoebridge

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The leaked recommendations of the NSW coronial inquiry into music festival deaths suggest that sniffer dogs be abolished at these events, as the evidence points to “a link between the use of drug dogs and more harmful means of consumption”....

Justice for Mhelody: An Interview With Migrante Australia’s Lina Cabaero

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Mhelody Polan Bruno died at around 10 am on 22 September at Wagga Wagga Base Hospital. The death occurred after paramedics attended an apartment the morning before, where they stabilised her. The 25-year-old Filipina trans woman had been holidaying in...

Silencing Journalists Threatens Democracy: An Interview with Award-Winning Journalist Peter Greste

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Prior to the 9/11 terrorist attack, there was only one specific piece of anti-terrorism legislation in Australia – a local law in the Northern Territory. Now, there are a staggering 82, with five more currently being considered by parliaments. As...

Governments Criminalise Protest to Silence Dissent: An Interview With Dr Piero Moraro

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The right to protest is under threat in this country, as government has been conducting an all-out assault on mobilising and assembling over recent years. And as this nation remains the only western democracy without a federal bill of rights,...

“My Moral Duty to Rebel”: An Interview With Scientist Dr Martin Wolterding

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On addressing the constituency at the podium, Australian politicians tend to shrug off climate protesters as part of the lunatic fringe. However, behind closed doors, those in government hold grave concerns about the implications of rising climate consciousness. This can...

Attacks at Australian Mosques Continue: An Interview With ANIC’s Bilal Rauf

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A man carrying a machete approached a number of worshippers on their way to the side entrance of Holland Park Mosque in Brisbane’s southside at around 8.30 pm last Wednesday. After being alerted to his presence, the congregants rushed inside...
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