“Effectively a Death Sentence”: Shoebridge Visits Refugees Stranded in PNG by Australia
Sixty-odd refugees that arrived in Australian waters by boat about 10 years ago have been stranded in Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea. The majority of these men are the forgotten remnants of hundreds of people who were...
Thirty-Ninth Arrest for Climate: Violet CoCo on Repeatedly Sacrificing Liberty for Planet
The recent Rising Tide Newcastle Coal Port blockade successfully disrupted the shipping lane into the world’s largest coal port, and it did this for an extended number of hours on Sunday 24 November, even with the massive state repressions that...
“Pine Gap Is a Place of Aggression”, Say Peace Activists in Court Over Blockading the Facility
A group of peace activists grabbed headlines on 27 November last year, when they blocked the main road into the Pine Gap US-Australia Joint Defence Facility to highlight that the base, situated about 20 kilometres outside of Mparntwe-Alice Springs, has...
Cops Out of Mardi Gras Is Still Key, Says Pride in Protest’s Damien Nguyen
Pride in Protest is running four candidates in this year’s Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Board election, which is taking place at the end of 12 months that have seen the queer social justice group’s long-term goal of removing...
National Network’s Tabitha Lean on Country Liberal Crackdown on NT Inmates
After cleaning up at the August 2024 election, the Finocchiaro ministry has been implementing its tough-on-crime agenda for the Northern Territory, which by late October meant the removal of women inmates from Mparntwe-Alice Springs and sticking them in the overcrowded...
“Important to Stand with Us”: Dunghutti Activist Paul Silva on Rallying for First Nations Justice
The last 14 months around the globe have been marked by the horrors of the Israeli-perpetrated genocide in Gaza and also the rising realisation that western forces that have committed mass destruction upon Indigenous peoples in the past continue to...
Wollongong Friends of Palestine’s Jet Hunt on the Ongoing Bisalloy Steel Community Picket
According to Wollongong Friends of Palestine organiser Jet Hunt, a “strong appetite for mass militancy” has taken hold across grassroots Australia, ever since Israeli forces unleashed a genocidal assault upon the Palestinians of the walled-in Gaza Strip fourteen months ago,...
“Deeply Ingrained Systemic Racism”: Wunna Nyiyaparli Elder Ailsa Roy on the Plight of Her People
The Wunna Nyiyaparli people of Western Australia’s eastern Pilbara region live close to land and their traditional way of life and customs, yet encroachments by mining companies onto their iron ore rich Country has resulted in a situation whereby they’re...
VicPol Raids Antiwar Protesters En Masse: Interview with Students for Palestine’s Jasmine Duff
Fifteen Victoria police officers raided the house of two university students in Naarm-Melbourne on Wednesday for allegedly having taken part in the Disrupt Land Forces protests, which seems a little odd, as the raids came 60 days after the last...
“One Hundred Days Without Any Answers”: TRC’s Renuga Inpakumar on the 24/7 Refugee Camp at Burke’s Office
As of Wednesday, 13 November 2024, the 24 Hour Continuous Protest For Permanent Visa has been stationed outside of home affairs minister Tony Burke’s electoral office in the southwestern Sydney suburb of Punchbowl for 100 days. Those involved in the...
