Sydney’s Rebellion Heats Up: An Interview With Extinction Rebellion’s Elly Baxter
A week-long series of protests calling for effective action on the climate crisis, Spring Rebellion kicked off on Monday. Led by climate activist group Extinction Rebellion, a coordinated series of demonstrations will utilise nonviolent direct action to get the message...
A Crime of Compassion: An Interview With Green Light’s Nicholas Morley
Against the backdrop of the ACT having just passed laws to legalise cannabis use, and the pending three year anniversary of the government’s highly derided cannabis medicine licensing scheme, comes a documentary that deals with the reality of medicinal cannabis...
A Vote for Diversity: An Interview With Law Society Council Candidate Angelo Bilias
Angelo Bilias is a Sydney lawyer, who understands the value of the collective strength of the law profession in this state. That’s why he places such importance in the Law Society of NSW, as the professional association representing the interests...
Facilitating Culturally Diverse Access to Justice: An Interview With the JCCD’s Carla Wilshire
Of late, questions have been raised around ethnic diversity in the Australian judiciary. A quick perusal of the lists of appointed judges and magistrates in this country reveals that they’re top heavy with Anglo Australian representation. Over recent decades, there’s...
Representing the Community: An Interview With Former Senior Crown Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi AM QC
Once described as Australia’s highest flying prosecutor, former NSW Senior Crown Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi QC had a reputation for determinedly bringing justice. In 1974, Mr Tedeschi’s name was entered into the NSW Supreme Court roll. Three years later, he was...
Boycott Alan Jones: An Interview With Mad F-cking Witches’ Jennie Hill
Over the last month, advertisers have been exiting 2GB’s Alan Jones Breakfast Show in droves. By Wednesday afternoon, close to 120 brands had actively sought to distance themselves from the radio shock jock, who’s notorious for having made divisive comments...
Join the Adani Blockade: An Interview With Frontline Action on Coal’s Andrea Valenzuela
Frontline Action on Coal (FLAC) has issued a red alert calling on activists from across Australia to join its Blockade Adani campaign at the Binbee camp on Birri country close to the site of the Indian mining giant’s proposed Carmichael...
NSW Police Apologise for Strip Searches: An Interview With Socialist Alliance’s Evans and Price
In early November 2017, refugees and asylum seekers being detained on Manus Island were refusing to leave the offshore detention centre the Turnbull government was in the midst of shutting down, as they feared for their safety on transfer to...
In Defence of Country: An Interview With Wangan and Jagalingou Council’s Adrian Burragubba
The Queensland government on 29 August quietly extinguished native title over 1,385 hectares of Wangan and Jagalingou (W&J) land and granted Adani freehold title over it, enabling the Indian mining giant to proceed with construction on its proposed Carmichael coalmine....
“Beyond Obscene”: An Interview With Julian Assange’s Father John Shipton
Australian journalist Julian Assange is currently being held in isolation in London’s notorious Belmarsh prison on a breach of bail conviction. And the Wikileaks founder is facing an extradition hearing in February, over 18 espionage charges in the US that...
