Tibetan Independence Rising: An Interview with Tibetan Youth Congress’ Sonam Tsering
Tashi Phuntsok, an 81-year-old Tibetan man self-immolated out the front of the Chinese police station located next to Kirti Monastery in the Tibetan county of Ngaba on 27 March. Also known as Taphun, Phuntsok did this in protest of China’s ongoing...
A Progressive Voice for Change: An Interview With Greens for Page Kashmir Miller
As the May 21 federal election draws closer, Australian politics is perhaps in the gravest state it has ever been. The last three years of the Morrison government has been marked by multiple crises coupled with an inability and outright...
“Business as Usual Will Kill Us All”: An Interview With Fireproof Australia’s Danny Noonan
“I sat on the Spit Bridge that morning and I felt it like every other commuter around me. I saw people sitting in their cars with their schoolchildren trying to get to school,” NSW roads minister Natalie Ward told the...
The Death of Protest in NSW: An Interview With Greens MLC Abigail Boyd
The June 2020 Sydney Black Lives Matter protest rocked the city to its foundations. As it had a focus on NSW police brutality towards First Nations peoples, then police commissioner Mick Fuller tried to have it prohibited citing COVID grounds. And the...
“Redrawing the Lines of Power”: Peace Activist Jacob Grech on Mounting Global Tensions
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has entered into its second month despite early claims that it would be a fast takeover. And as the Ukrainian civilian population continues to be slaughtered, the Kremlin is now suggesting a potential de-escalation. But many...
“Racism Does Kill People”: Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi on an Anti-Racist Australia
Australia prides itself on being a vibrant multicultural society. The nation isn’t so proud of its high levels of racism, however. But for some reason, those holding onto positions of governance - the majority being white and overwhelmingly male -...
Boycott Elbit Systems: An Interview With Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Australia
A coalition of civil society organisations supporting the rights of Palestinians are calling on the Morrison government and the Andrews government to boycott their involvement with Israeli-based defence intelligence and weapons company Elbit Systems. This campaign was sparked by recent successful...
Legislating the Will of the People: David Shoebridge on the Coming Greens Senate
The catastrophic flooding experienced along the eastern seaboard, and the federal government’s now common attempt to avoid taking viable action whilst trying to shift the blame, seem like the final straw in a series of mounting multiple crises that all...
A Constant Erosion of Citizens’ Rights: An Interview With Liberty Victoria’s Michael Stanton
Rights, or our lack thereof them, have become an increasing concern over the last three years of Morrison’s governance. Most overtly we saw the extreme curtailing of freedoms with the lockdowns and restrictions used as a means to prevent COVID-19...
“The Key Decisions Are Being Made in Boardrooms”: Scott Ludlam Talks State Capture
Holding the belief that the climate is changing to the detriment of people and planet, used to be unfashionable. Indeed, NSW premier Dominic Perrottet still seems to think it is. But the shock of the 2019 climate-driven megafires brought most...
