Drug Policing Causes Most of the Harms: An Interview With Former Police Sergeant Greg Denham
Last August marked the 50th anniversary of one of the most significant music festivals of all time, Woodstock. The four day event involved the coming together of close to half a million people, and as is well-known, the hippies that...
Landmark Victory for Police Corruption Whistleblower: An Interview With Rick Flori
The Queensland Court of Appeal ruled on 3 December that a 2010 letter that well-known police corruption whistleblower Rick Flori had written to the state oversight body now referred to as the Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) was a valid...
NT Sex Workers Finally Have Decriminalisation: An Interview With SWOP NT’s Coordinator Leanne Melling
Sex workers across the NT let out a collective cheer last week, as that territory’s Legislative Assembly passed the Sex Industry Bill 2019. After long-term campaigning from within the industry, sex work in the Northern Territory will now be decriminalised. One...
The Focus Should Be on Reducing Deaths: An Interview With Jennie Ross-King
Last summer’s music festival season was unnecessarily devastating. Five young Australians died in drug-related circumstances either trying to avoid police detection or from taking drugs that they had no way of ascertaining the contents of. Harm reduction experts have been...
In Solidarity With First Nations: An Interview With the Anticolonial Asian Alliance
Something is rotten in the state of Australia. And it’s a long-term collective denial that Anglo Australians have lived by, which started when the first British ships arrived and has subsequently been passed down through the generations. It’s the belief...
The “Kids for Cash” System: An Interview With Social Justice Warrior Paul Robert Burton
Paul Robert Burton came under the ire of NSW authorities, when in July 2017, he made a number of social media posts about a young sick boy, who’d been removed from the care of his parents by NSW Family and...
Transphobic Barriers to DV Help: An Interview With LGBTIQ Voices for Change’s Jayke Burgess
Over recent years, the door is finally being pried open on the epidemic of domestic and family violence in Australian suburban homes. But, when it comes to this sort of violence within LGBTIQ communities, for the most part, this harm...
Mob-Led Criminal Justice Diversion: An Interview With Deadly Connection’s Keenan Mundine
Deadly Connections Community and Justice Services is a Sydney-based Aboriginal-led organisation, which aims to break the cycle of disadvantage and involvement with the criminal justice system that many First Nations peoples find themselves trapped within. The organisation asserts that it’s...
Dance in Defiance: An Interview With Keep Sydney Open’s Tyson Koh
Music festivals are supposed to be a time of celebration, where young and old can attend and forget about their everyday lives for a while. There’s music, dance and a general coming together and feeling good about being alive. But,...
Military Whistleblower Not Allowed to Choose His Own Lawyer: An Interview With David McBride
Former Australian Defence Force lawyer turned whistleblower David McBride told reporters last week that he’ll be representing himself in court. A reason for this decision is that the government requires any lawyer who represents him to have top secret security...
