Imagining Prison Abolition Is Not Difficult, Says Sisters Inside’s Debbie Kilroy
When the British arrived by boat to colonise this continent in 1788, it was all about incarceration. The First Fleet brought with it large numbers of inmates, military officers and a foreign law system with carceral punishment as an integral...
Voluntary Assisted Dying Likely to Pass in NSW, Says Dying With Dignity’s Shayne Higson
NSW is now the only Australian state that doesn’t let people undergoing excruciating pain at the end of their lives undergo a process of voluntary assisted dying, in order to ease the pain of their own suffering, which in turn,...
Neo-Nazis Intimidate Anti-Racist Activist at Home: An Interview With the Jumbunna Institute’s Paddy Gibson
Well respected anti-racism activist, supporter of First Nations rights and prominent trade unionist, Padraic (Paddy) Gibson had three neo-Nazi types, with shaven heads and shirts emblazoned with the Eureka flag, turn up on his front doorstep on the night of...
Rich Nations Are Withholding Vaccines From the Poorest, Explains AFTINET’s Dr Patricia Ranald
The Delta variant of COVID-19 arrived in Sydney in June. And with the onset of this more virulent strain of the virus, the race was on to vaccinate as many people as possible in order to prevent a widespread outbreak...
Sentenced to Prison Over Nonviolent Climate Action: An Interview With Activist Sergeio Herbert
Social media platforms have recently lit up with praise for climate activist Sergeio Herbert, who, after being involved in a series of nonviolent direct actions conducted by Blockade Australia, was sentenced to 12 months in prison by a NSW magistrate....
Missing and Murdered First Nations Women: Senator Dorinda Cox on the Parliamentary Inquiry
Greens Senator Dorinda Cox successfully moved a motion on 25 November to establish a government inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children. The Yamatji Noongar woman stated that there over 70 such cases nationwide...
The Climate Crisis Is an Extraordinary Emergency, XR Activist Jane Morton Argues in Court
The 2018 Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene paper first put forth the Hothouse Earth scenario, which outlines that global warming is likely leading to a “planetary threshold that could lock in a continuing rapid pathway toward much...
“Strip Searches Were Never Meant to Be Routine”: RLC’s Sam Lee on the Splendour Class Action
The protocols stipulating when police can carry out strip searches are set out in a piece of legislation commonly known as the LEPRA. Section 31 of this Act requires that when outside of a police station “the seriousness and urgency...
Litigating Against Police Misconduct: An Interview With ISUEPOLICE’s Luke Brett Moore
Being approached by police with a sniffer dog as you get off the train, and then being taken behind a screen and ordered to strip naked by armed officers sounds like something that would happen living under an authoritarian regime...
Prime Time for a Federal Bill of Rights: NSWCCL’s Pauline Wright on Protecting Freedoms
Around 90 national security bills have been passed at the federal level since the 2001 twin towers attacks in New York. Draconian in their reach, these laws are said to target terrorists, however they actually encroach upon the rights and...
