Mainstreaming Civil Resistance: Climate Defender Brad Homewood on Building the Movement
The climate crisis gave everyone living on this continent a severe warning over the summer of 2019/20, when wildfires burnt 20 percent of forest to the ground. And for those who didn’t heed the call, a series of extreme flooding events hit...
What Happens if I Breach an Apprehended Violence Order in New South Wales?
A Tasmanian Supreme Court judge is facing criminal charges over allegations he contravened an apprehended violence order on three separate occasions while he was in New South Wales. The back story 62-year old Justice Gregory Geason pleaded not guilty in...
“Under Threat of Police Brutality”: An Interview with the Port Melbourne ZIM Ship Community Picket
The Port Melbourne ZIM Ship Community Picket served to successfully prevent a ship belonging to Israeli company ZIM from docking at the Port Melbourne Webb Dock, so it couldn’t pull in and deliver its goods. Not only did this cause...
Every Police Shooting, Nothing Happens, Regardless: Darren Gilbert on the Killing of His Son
“In any police shooting, number one, it is looked at civilly. Not criminally, straight off the bat,” says Darren Gilbert in the interview below regarding the shooting of his son, Luke, by two Queensland Police Service officers at Airlie Beach...
March on Invasion Day for First Nations Justice: An Interview With Dunghutti Activist Paul Silva
The 12 months since last year’s Invasion Day protest and next week’s have been tumultuous in regard to Indigenous affairs, to say that least. Not only did the government stage an unsuccessful Indigenous Voice referendum, but it’s been supporting genocide...
“Uncle Rob is Right. Israel, Australia: What is the Difference?”: Senator Lidia Thorpe on Gaza
The Albanese government having thrown itself into the US-led defence of Israel as it perpetrates genocide on the Palestinians within the walled-in region of the Gaza Strip reveals one settler colonial nation supporting another in its subjugation of Indigenous peoples...
“A Slow Burn Ethnic Cleanse”: APAN’s Nasser Mashni on the South African ICJ Genocide Case
South Africa stepped up just before the turning of the new year to lodge an application to initiate proceedings against the Israeli state, charging it with ongoing violations of the Genocide Convention, via the three-month-long wholesale massacre it’s been perpetrating in...
Disrupt Burrup Hub Advisor Criticised for Media Prowess: Interview with Jesse Noakes
Disrupt Burrup Hub arrived on the scene in January last year, capturing the nation’s attention as artist and activist Joana Partyka spray painted the Woodside logo onto the classic Australian painting “Down on His Luck”, in a move that didn’t damage...
Melbourne Antiwar Activists Disrupt to Heighten Genocide Awareness: An Eyewitness Account
Antiwar activists descended upon Port Melbourne’s Lorimer Street and Todd Road at 6 am on 18 December, blocking six lanes of traffic leading to the premises belonging to the government-funded Defence Science Technology Group (DSTG) and multinational weapons manufacturer Leonardo....
Mardi Gras Police Accords Voted Down: Pride in Protest’s Luc Velez on the Progressive Shift
Pride in Protest’s Luc Velez picked up the second highest primary vote at this year’s Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras board election, which showed a marked shift in the political leanings of those attending the annual general meeting that...
