Striking for Their Future: An Interview With School Strike for Climate’s Evan Meneses
Bushfire season has kicked in this year earlier than ever before. Fires have been raging across northern NSW and Queensland. And while climatologists have said the fires aren’t directly attributable to the climate emergency, it’s quite easy to do the...
Lawyers Call for Drug Decriminalisation: An Interview With ALHR’s Kerry Weste
Uniting launched the Fair Treatment campaign last October, which calls for the decriminalisation of the use and personal possession of illicit drugs, along with increased investment in harm reduction and treatment. The NSW campaign has the support of over 60...
Drop the Collaery Prosecution: An Interview With Australian Lawyers Alliance’s Greg Barns
As Australian barrister Bernard Collaery is set to stand trial in the ACT Supreme Court over charges of conspiring to communicate secret information, the Australian Lawyers Alliance (ALA) has stepped forward and called for his prosecution to be dropped. With...
Revolution of Our Times: An Interview With Hong Kong Protester Silver Lee
The anti-extradition bill rallies in Hong Kong are now in their twelfth week. On Sunday 18 August, an estimated 1.7 million demonstrators - a quarter of the population - took to the city streets to protest in torrential rain. And...
Protect Our Eroding Rights: An Interview With Human Rights Law Centre’s Tom Clarke
The understanding that human rights aren’t protected under this nation’s federal law is no longer just the domain of lawyers and politicians. There’s now a growing awareness within the general population that something’s amiss when it comes to basic freedoms...
Communities of Resistance: An Interview With an Antifascist Activist
The 2005 Cronulla Riots involved five thousand Anglo Australians converging upon North Cronulla Beach to “reclaim” the strip of sand. And the “Aussie pride” protesters began randomly attacking people of Middle Eastern appearance, who were supposedly trying to “take over”....
NSW Police Strip Search Activists to Intimidate: An Interview With Socialist Alliance’s Rachel Evans
These days, a commuter disembarking at Central Station during afternoon peak hour can face the prospect of being ordered by police to step behind a screen and remove their clothes, following a positive indication from a drug detection dog. NSW...
“People of Faith Aren’t Being Discriminated Against”: An Interview With Father Rod Bower
In December 2017, literally days after marriage equality was passed, then treasurer Scott Morrison announced that he’d be pushing for laws in 2018 that prevented discrimination against Christians and those of other religious faiths. “Where I think people are being...
Djab Wurrung “Stand Tall” in the Face of Neo-Colonisation
Victoria police turned up at the Djab Wurrung Heritage Protection Embassy on 8 August and issued the traditional owners camped there with a notice to vacate the sacred landscape in southwestern Victoria within 14 days. Major Road Projects Victoria and...
Saving the Rivers from Corporates: An Interview With Water Activist Bruce Shillingsworth
News of the environmental devastation taking place along the Barwon-Darling river system in north western NSW hit the city last summer, when reports of several mass fish kills near the town of Menindee made headlines. Part of the larger Murray-Darling...
