The Stage Is Set to Pass a Human Rights Act and the Benefits Are Only Mounting
The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights recommended the Australian government pass a Human Rights Act in May this year, as part of its inquiry into the nation’s human rights framework, which means the stage is now set for federal...
If the RoboDebt Internal Whistleblower Had Gone Public, She’d Likely Be Criminally Prosecuted
Conducted in relation to referrals made by the Royal Commission into Robodebt, the Australia Public Service taskforce inquiry report into the failed automated debt recovery scheme targeting social security recipients was released last Friday, and it outlined that 12 former...
Australian Government Proposes to Further Restrict Internet Freedoms
Independent public policy journal Pearls and Irritations has been running brief articles of late, entitled A Five Minute Scroll on X, which feature a number of posts from the popular social media platform over the 24 hours prior that serve...
Sleepwalking into War with China: Annette Brownlie on the 2024 IPAN Conference
Like AUKUS, the Quad is the other strategic partnership between nations in the Indo Pacific region that commenced playing a significant role in this nation’s foreign policy outlook in 2021. And the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue comprises of Australia, India, Japan...
Consumer Watchdog Takes Action Against Supermarket Giants for False or Misleading Claims
Supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths control 67% of the Australian retail grocery market – the highest percentage of any developed nation - giving them the power to unfairly exploit producers and set unreasonably high prices for consumers. One of the...
Neo-Nazis Are Holding Dinner Forums in Melbourne, After a Year of Far-Right Actions
Neo-Nazis gathered at Urban Street restaurant in the Naarm-Melbourne suburb of McKinnon on Saturday 14 September 2024 to discuss “advocating for the rights of people of European descent” and that when it comes to “enemies”, theirs are Islam, the Han...
Senate Motion Requires Attorney General to Report on Deaths in Custody
Senator Lidia Thorpe successfully passed a motion last Thursday requiring the Australian attorney general to report on deaths in custody in a quarterly manner, with the aim of coming to a more precise understanding of these deaths that are occurring...
The Futile War on Drugs Continues to Fuel Violent Crime and Endanger the Public
New South Wales police are claiming that recent raids on 20 homes across Sydney in which ‘underworld figures’ are believed to reside has effectively dismantled an alleged organised crime network labelled as ‘The Commission’. However, there are fears the raids...
Senate Calls on Australian Government to Intervene in Child Prisons
UTS Jumbunna Institute senior researcher Paddy Gibson outlined in Solidarity recently that the incarceration of First Nations people has increased under the Albanese government, with 12,556 Indigenous people in Australian prisons over the first quarter of 2022, compared with 15,070...
NSW Government’s Drug Diversion Scheme is an Abject Failure
The Early Drug Diversion Initiative that was quietly implemented by the Minns government early this year, has again been found to be an abject failure, and no one who’s been paying attention to the drug law reform debate in NSW...
