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Boycott Beijing’s Sportswashing: An Interview With Australia Tibet Council’s Dr Zoe Bedford

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The Australia Tibet Council, and other human rights groups, staged a rally out the front of the Channel 7 studios in Sydney’s Martin Place last Friday. Those demonstrating were calling out the television network for its part in broadcasting the Beijing...

“Torturing Innocent People”: Activist Claire Gomez on Freeing the Park Refugees

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After having locked up Novak Djokovic in the same immigration prison as over two dozen former offshore detainees - whilst his government drew out the media spectacle around whether to deport him - the PM decided to tell a blatant...

The Pilliga Project: The Documentary-Makers on Preventing Narrabri Gas Devastation

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In the midst of a pandemic, just half a year after a climate-driven bushfire destroyed large tracts of land, and not long following a years-long drought having devastated the country’s southeast, PM Scott Morrison stood before the nation to unleash...

“A Highly Politicised Use of Police”: Shoebridge on COVID Policing, Quotas and Drug Dogs

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The NSW Police Force has dropped its controversial policy of providing each area command across the state with a set of personal search and move-on order targets that officers were expected to meet over a financial year. The quotas, or...

“All Roads Lead to the Aboriginal Tent Embassy”: Gwenda Stanley on the 50th Anniversary

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The 26th of January marks 50 years since the Aboriginal Tent Embassy was established on the lawns out the front of the building today known as Old Parliament House. Situated in Canberra, the Embassy operates upon Ngambri-Ngunnawal Country. The Tent Embassy...

Stop the Dame Phyllis Frost Expansion: An Interview with Homes Not Prisons’ Karen Fletcher

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On 19 March last year, the Andrews government announced a $188.9 million expansion for Victoria’s Dame Phyllis Frost Centre - a maximum security prison for women - which proposes the provision of an additional 106 new inmate beds. Increasing the capacity...

“Adani’s Mine Is Up and Running”: Frontline Action on Coal’s Andy Paine on Disrupting It

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As Australia shutdown for the Christmas-New Year period, Indian mining giant Adani announced on 27 December, that it was close to sending its first shipload of coal exports from its Carmichael mine, situated in central Queensland’s Galilee Basin, overseas. The greenlighting...

Forging Social Justice in “Dickensian” Australia: Independent Gerry Georgatos Runs for Senate

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Social justice is something that the Morrison government hasn’t had time for since it tripped into power in August 2018. Indeed, for neoliberals, like the prime minister, ensuring equality for all is anathema to their creed. This can be seen...

Giving Voice to Migrants and Refugees: An Interview With IMA’s Professor Bruno Di Biase

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The start of the COVID-19 pandemic saw the entire nation of Australia go into lockdown. However, when 500 Victoria police officers were deployed to enforce a hard lockdown at nine public housing towers in North Melbourne and Flemington, it was...

Six Years on, Still No Justice for David Dungay Jnr, Says Dunghutti Activist Paul Silva

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The footage of five Long Bay prison guards holding David Dungay Jnr facedown in the prone position on a bed, as he screams out that he can’t breathe multiple times, is not only hard to watch, but it begs why it...
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