A “21st Century Holocaust”: An Interview With Uyghur Activist Talgat Abbas
According to the Torchlight Uyghur Group, when the flights out of Wuhan city - the coronavirus epicentre - were cancelled on 23 January, one set of flights was allowed to continue, and they were those bound for Urumqi, the capital...
“Julian Did Redact”: An Interview With Lawyer-Journalist Mark Davis
The line up of renowned Australian journalists on the stage at the Martin Place Amphitheatre on 24 February was impressive. Gathered for a rally, they included John Pilger, Mary Kostakidis, Quentin Dempster, Wendy Bacon, Andrew Fowler and Mark Davis. They...
Intercepting the Liberals’ Mardi Gras Float: An Interview With the Department of Homo Affairs
At this year’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade, a group of twenty activists from the Department of Homo Affairs (DOHA) located an unauthorised float - that of the Liberal Party - and moved in to turn it back. Not...
“A Local Solution to a Local Problem”: An Interview With Uniting MSIC’s Dr Marianne Jauncey
UNSW criminology lecturer Dr George Dertadian released his findings last week from a study that utilised national coronial overdose death data, which pointed to southwestern Sydney as an ideal candidate for a second safe injecting facility. Dertadian found that between...
Offshore Political Prisoners: An Interview With Social Activist Stephen Langford
At around 9.15 am on 14th of August 2019, a couple of NSW police officers were sitting at the lights on the corner of New South Head Road and McLachlan Avenue in Darlinghurst, when they observed an individual defacing a...
“A Potential Discrimination Act”: An Interview With Former High Court Justice Michael Kirby
Right now, transgender people in Japan are forced to undertake gender reassignment surgery in order to change the sex on their identity documents. And while some wish to, others don’t want to undergo the procedure, which entails sterilisation. In a...
In Solidarity With Julian: An Interview With People for Assange’s Michelle Wood
There’s an Australian citizen of ailing health currently being detained overseas, who until very recently had been held in prolonged solitary confinement. His liberty has been withdrawn by one of this nation’s closest allies and yet, our government has remained...
Australian-Born Infants in Offshore Detention: An Interview With Biloela Advocate Angela Fredericks
The prime minister announced towards the end of last month that due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, citizens and residents returning to Australia from China would be sent to the recently reopened Christmas Island detention facility for a two...
Kill the Religious Privilege Bill: An Interview With Satanic Australia’s James Sutekh
The implications of the prime minister’s Religious Discrimination Bill, and its accompanying legislation, are so dire that people are turning to the Devil. At three recent Community Action for Rainbow Rights (CARR) rallies held against what’s been dubbed the Bigot’s...
“First Nations People Are Bearing the Brunt”: An Interview With Water Activist Bruce Shillingsworth
Unprecedented is a word that many have applied to the weather conditions this continent has faced over the 2019-20 summer season. It’s been used to refer to the high temperatures. It’s described the scope of the water crisis along the...
