Police Protect the Wealthy, While Targeting and Ignoring the Needs of the Poor
The urgency of the situation is palpable as police appeal to the public for information regarding a missing woman in the Snowy Mountains, specifically in Kosciuszko National Park, located almost 500 km southwest of Sydney in the Australian Capital Territory....
Tertiary Educators Nationwide Demand Universities Boycott Israel
The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) for Palestine, the National Union of Students (NUS) and Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) held a National Day of Action on Wednesday, in support of implementing an Institutional Academic Boycott of Israel, of which...
“You Are Not My King”: First Nations Resistance to Charles III Tutelage Triumphs
As far as historical moments go, Lidia Thorpe singing out “You are not our king. You are not sovereign” in the direction of King Charles III this week, during a reception at Parliament House in Canberra, was one of those...
Calls for Action Against NSW Police Officers Who Coerced a First Nations Man in Custody
NSW police executed an arrest warrant on 28 May 2020, at the residence of a 29-year-old First Nations man, which subsequently led to arrest, his being taken into custody and then charging in regard to a number of larceny and...
Saturation Policing Focuses Once Again on Less-Affluent Regions
During the ‘dark years of COVID’, police were consistently criticised for their targeting of, and zero-tolerance approach towards, those in less-affluent suburbs of Sydney as well as regions of New South Wales who were suspected of contravening public health orders,...
Australia Assists United States to Attack Houthis in Yemen
Australia provided assistance to the United States in carrying out its 17 October 2024 attack against Houthi positions in Yemen. And it’s now apparent that ever-increasing US force posture on this continent, which is usually considered to be in aid...
New South Wales Parliament Passes Greatly Diluted LGBTIQA+ Equality Laws
Transgender people in NSW will no longer have to “undergo surgery before they can change their sex on their birth certificate” as of 1 July next year. And this long-sought reform brings this state’s laws into line with other Australian...
Moving Away from War Against Drugs Brings Enormous Benefits
The global failure of the decades-long war on drugs has resulted in a myriad of issues for jurisdictions that continue to plough resources into enforcement and retain a model which sees addiction as a criminal law problem rather than a...
Civil Liberties Groups Condemn NSW Government’s Further Encroachment on Right to Protest
The backlash against New South Wales premier Chris Minns’ suggestion that the NSW Police Force ought to have the capacity to deny rally organisers, who have lodged a protest notification form with the agency, the right to protest if they...
New South Wales Police Accused of Racial Profiling Students
Accusations of racial profiling are being levelled against New South Wales police officers who arrested two Western Sydney University students in their early twenties, who were involved in a protest at the institution’s Parramatta South campus on 9 October 2024,...
