Inside the Life of a Barrister: An Interview with Stephen Lawrence
Sydney barrister Stephen Lawrence has had an illustrious career in law. The 41-year-old, who originally hails from the New South Wales town of Griffith, studied law at the Australian National University, before being admitted as a solicitor in 2002. Since...
Save Our Public Housing: An Exclusive Interview with Richard Weeks
Waterloo Green is a set of six public housing towers set amongst an area of parkland in Sydney’s inner city. It’s home to about twelve hundred people. From late June, the Waterloo Tent Embassy was set up in the southern...
NSW Police Try to Shut Down Psyfari Music Festival
NSW police are continuing their push to close down music festivals. This time they’ve taken aim at Psyfari, despite the festival’s clean track record. On 25 August, around 5,000 revellers are expected to descend upon Capertee Valley – located in...
Social Justice Advocate: An Exclusive Interview with Renee Eaves
Renee Eaves was four months pregnant when Constable Barry John Donnelly entered her home and arrested her on driving offences. The night that followed was hell: police at the Roma Street Watchhouse denied her medication or a bucket to vomit in,...
Electronic Frontiers Australia: An Exclusive Interview with Jon Lawrence
Since its establishment, Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) has been one of the more influential, if not obscure, lobby groups in Australia. Founded in 1994, it’s been leading the burgeoning movement to secure what we now call “digital rights”, campaigning for...
Greens MP David Shoebridge, an Exclusive Interview
David Shoebridge took office in the Legislative Council in 2010, since then the Greens MP has been passionate about justice reform. He’s best known as the face behind the popular ‘Sniff Off’ anti-sniffer dog campaign, which has been gathering traction...
Human Rights Watch: An Exclusive Interview with Elaine Pearson
Director of Human Rights Watch Australia, Elaine Pearson, is frank in her assessment of our human rights situation: “I think the sad reality is that we’re no longer a leader on human rights, although I think in certain times we...
Lawyers Protecting the Environment, An Interview with Sue Higginson
Sue Higginson isn’t your typical city lawyer. An environmentalist and former campaigner, she’s been working at EDO NSW (formerly the Environmental Defender’s Office) for the last ten years, and is now the organisation’s CEO and Principal Lawyer. Before becoming a...
Justice Reinvestment, an Exclusive Interview
Sarah Hopkins is the Managing Lawyer of Justice Projects at the Aboriginal Legal Service, and a criminal law lecturer at the University of NSW. In 2012, she helped establish Just Reinvest NSW, a non-profit organisation that’s lobbying for big changes...
Removal of Rights in NSW, An Exclusive Interview
The NSW Council for Civil Liberties has been at the forefront of the Australian civil rights movement since 1963. Over the last 50 years, they’ve been tireless in their fight against censorship, abuse of authority, and injustice within the legal...
