End Prohibition. Vote HEMP: An Interview With Dr Andrew Katelaris and Michael Balderstone
As Australian historian Dr John Jiggens recalled in 2010, an article appeared in a major Australian newspaper in 1938, warning about a “Mexican drug” that causes madness. And this report introduced the term “marijuana” to the Australian public. “Under the...
Sail For Justice: An Interview With the Manus Freedom Flotilla’s Izzy Brown
The Manus Freedom Flotilla is about to set sail from the lands of the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation and take a two and a half month journey to Manus Island with the aim of drawing global attention...
Civil Disobedience Required: An Interview With Extinction Rebellion’s Miriam Robinson
Hundreds of police officers from other forces were called in last week to back up London’s Metropolitan police, as it tried to clear climate change protests from parts of the city that had successfully brought those areas to a standstill....
It’s Time to Regulate Cocaine and MDMA: An Interview with Transform’s Steve Rolles
The debate around legalising recreational cannabis in this country is growing louder. What once seemed to Middle Australia like a far-out idea held by some rural hippies, nowadays, isn’t such a distant concept as the news of successful legalisation in...
On Legalising and Regulating Cocaine: An Interview With Dr Julian Buchanan
The NSW police drug detection dog program has been widely criticised, as it gets it wrong between two-thirds to three-quarters of the time. And the 2006 Ombudsman report pointed out that when searches are successful, most only turn up small...
Protecting the Sacred: An Interview With the Djab Wurrung Embassy’s Zellanach Djab Mara
VicRoads and Major Road Projects Victoria have plans to construct a four lane strip of highway between the towns of Ararat and Buangor in southwestern Victoria, as part of its $672 million Western Highway duplication project. This basically means that...
Raise the Rate: An Interview With the Australian Unemployed Workers Union’s Jeremy Poxon
The concept of welfare has its basis in 7th century Islam. In its modern European form, welfare provisions began to emerge in the 19th century. These were systems that acknowledged a government’s responsibility to provide for all of its citizens,...
From Decriminalising to Legalising Cannabis: An Interview With Ex-ACT Health Minister Michael Moore
As far as ACT Labor MLA Michael Pettersson is concerned, his territory will be legalising the use and personal possession of cannabis before the year is out. The legislation he introduced to make this happen is currently before a parliamentary...
First Nations Suicide Prevention: An Interview With R U OK?’s Dr Vanessa Lee
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide rates have reached crisis point. After being very low in the late 1980s, the number of First Nations people taking their own lives over the last decade has been increasing dramatically. And over the...
Solidarity With Palestinians: An Interview With Palestine Action Group’s Damian Ridgwell
Tomorrow marks the one year anniversary of the ongoing weekly protest in the Gaza Strip known as the Great March of Return, which has involved hundreds of thousands of Palestinians marching to the border with Israel every Friday. This peaceful...
