Black Lives Matter at Long Bay Prison: Justice Action’s Brett Collins on the Prison Crackdown
Just days after Black Lives Matter protests swept the nation, reigniting the Aboriginal Deaths in Custody movement in this country, reports started emerging that a similar demonstration was taking place inside Sydney’s Long Bay Gaol. Indeed, aerial footage shows inmates...
The Inherent Racism of Australian Police: An Interview With Policing Academic Amanda Porter
The Aboriginal Deaths in Custody movement has been reignited. Last weekend saw tens of thousands of people gather in capital cities and regional centres to protest the systemic violence in Australian policing and criminal justice systems that targets First Nations...
People Power Can Halt Gas Expansion: An Interview With Stop CSG Sydney’s Pip Hinman
On 3 June, a bill that would have imposed a statewide ban on coal seam gas (CSG) expansion passed in the upper house of NSW parliament. However, the Berejiklian goon squad made sure it appeared prematurely in the lower house...
Can’t Help Themselves: An Eyewitness Account of Police Brutality After the Black Lives Matter Rally
A large protest march against police violence towards First Nations people was never going to be the top of the NSW police commissioner’s wish list. Indeed, some presume that’s why Mick Fuller moved to have the NSW Supreme Court shut...
Uprising in West Papua: An Interview With Journalist John Martinkus
The construction of the Trans-Papuan Highway is a mammoth project the Indonesian government has had underway since 2013. The 4,325 kilometre road cuts its way through the mountains of occupied West Papua to join the coastal cities of Sorong and...
Stop Black Deaths in Custody: An Interview With Gomeroi Activist Gwenda Stanley
Black Lives Matter protests have erupted across the United States in more than 350 cities. Those mobilising are demonstrating against a racially prejudiced system that leads to the loss of so many African American lives at the hands of law...
“I Can’t Breathe”: ISJA’s Raul Bassi on the George Floyd-David Dungay Rally
The protests over the police killing of an African American man on the side of the road in the US state of Minneapolis continue on a week after the incident, and they’re only growing. What began as local demonstrations in...
A Royal Commission Into Child Removals Now: An Interview With NSPTRP’s Megan Krakouer
National Suicide Prevention and Trauma Recovery Project (NSPTRP) director Megan Krakouer has launched on online petition calling on prime minister Scott Morrison to prioritise a Royal Commission into Child Removals. The Mineng woman has done so in response to a...
“Seven Dark Years in Detention for What?”: An Interview With Kangaroo Point Detainee Abdullah Moradi
Right now, the Australian government is continuing to hold over 100 men at Kangaroo Point Central Hotel in inner city Brisbane, in a similar manner to how these asylum seekers were previously locked up on Manus and Nauru. These men...
Half of Child Detainees Are First Nations: An Interview With Change the Record’s Sophie Trevitt
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare released its Youth Justice in Australia 2018-19 report last week. The document outlines that over the last four financial years, the number of First Nations children being incarcerated or under supervision orders has...
