Academics Call for an End to Albanese’s Israel Complicity: Interview with Professor Stuart Rees
“Why collusion with this grotesque Israeli government?” Australian academics asked prime minister Anthony Albanese in a 14 June open letter, and they further raise the “sadness and despair” that his government’s unbridled support for Tel Aviv’s genocidal attack on Gaza...
The Drug Offenders Program: Shane Prince SC and Jim Finnane on Early Intervention
The hardline approach taken to psychoactive drugs has pushed their use underground, which causes barriers to seeking help for those who develop problematic use, as they’re admitting to a crime, while the funding of an ever-increasing habit can also become...
“A Progressive Escalation of BDS Actions Worldwide”: An Interview With BDS Australia
Apartheid was a system of racial segregation implemented by the South African government in 1948, which saw the white minority rule over the Black South African people of that nation in an authoritarian manner that violently oppressed and impoverished the...
Australians Fighting in Gaza Should’ve Been Warned of Potential Prosecution, Says Greg Barns SC
The Netanyahu government issued a 10 October 2023 call for its 360,000 army reservists to show up for military action it had launched in the Gaza Strip. And it’s understood that about 1,000 Australians with dual citizenship heeded the call...
‘Student Camps Are Anti-Genocide, Not Anti-Semitic’, Says UniMelb for Palestine’s Dana Alshaer
Right now, it would be difficult not to be aware that students at numerous Australian universities have set up campsites on campuses, with the aim of opposing the Israeli government perpetrated genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza. Another aspect to...
Reestablishing the White Australia Policy: Shoebridge on Albanese’s Racist Refugee Bill
The Senate is set to vote upon a third tranche of Labor migration laws relating to refugees and asylum seekers that is so divisive many are astounded that the traditional party of the left has placed them on the table,...
We’re Not Backing Down: Students for Palestine’s Shovan Bhattarai on the USYD Gaza Camp
The 17 April-established Gaza encampment at Columbia University might have been set upon by the New York police within 24 hours, after university president Minouche Shafik gave law enforcement the greenlight to dismantle the nonviolent demonstration, but it’s since sparked...
Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa’s Dr Julian Buchanan on Legalising All Illicit Drugs
Drug law reformists in the state of New South Wales are currently grappling with a government that has reneged on preelection promises regarding changes to the jurisdiction’s drug laws, with a slated NSW drug summit to deliberate upon drug decriminalisation,...
‘Forging Justice When Our Leaders Fail Us’: Helen O’Sullivan Sets Sail on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
University of Queensland educator Helen O’Sullivan is currently over in Türkiye about to set sail on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, which comprises of three ships attempting to deliver much-needed food and aid to the 2.3 million Palestinians of the Gaza...
Talking Peace on ANZAC Day: An Interview with Raising Peace’s James Cox
“Australia can become a global champion of peace” asserts a recently issued statement from Raising Peace for ANZAC Day 2024, in which the peace alliance network outlines that while remembering fallen soldiers, the reflection shouldn’t be through a “war first”...
