Country Liberals to Lower the Excessively Low Bar on Punishing Indigenous Kids
The Country Liberal Party (CLP) landslide victory in last Saturday’s Northern Territory election brings with it a type of foreboding, that, while not of the same global magnitude that a 2024 Trump US election victory would bring, but it is...
Federal Labor Passes Union Busting Laws, Instead of Dealing with Individual Criminals
Unions rallied nationwide on Tuesday in response to union-busting legislation that federal Labor, with bipartisan approval, has just passed in regard to the CFMEU, which threaten the working conditions and rights of all union members in the long run if...
Australia’s Role in the Coming US-Stoked World War is Ever-Increasing
US Republican congressman Michael McCaul was recently here spruiking the benefits of the inroads his nation is making onto this continent, which consists of, as our defence minister Richard Marles recently put it, US “force posture now in… every domain:...
Should Australian Government Departments Pay Barristers More?
Some of the most senior and best barristers in Australia are King’s Counsel, or KC’s (formerly Queen’s Counsel, or QC’s while Queen Elizabeth was the monarch) and Senior Counsel - collectively known as ‘silks’ due to the silk robes they...
Global Monitor Confirms Civil Liberties Continue to Wane Under Albanese
A global rights monitor has recently released its new country brief on Australia, and it confirms that the last two years of federal Labor government have not improved basic freedoms in the civic space, and instead, rights and liberties continued...
US Congressman Asserts Darwin the “Epicentre” of War on China, as Nuke Subs on Their Way
“The shift which we need to see is from viewing AUKUS as defence policy, to viewing it as nation-building policy - or even economic future-proofing policy,” Bran Black, Business Council of Australia CEO, was quoted as saying at the end...
New Laws Will See Federal Politicians Punished for Poor Conduct
Many of us may be feeling the fatigue in the face of the ongoing Brittany Higgins vs Bruce Lehrmann saga. However, despite the never-ending media headlines, the creation of ‘celebrity status’ around a number of people involved, and notwithstanding the...
NSW Partially Admits Malicious Prosecution of Justice Activist Luke Brett Moore: An Interview
Luke Brett Moore was illegally strip searched by Goulburn police in 2017. And around the time he placed a call to Newtown police station to make a complaint about the NSW police strip search policy, in February 2021, a long-term...
Silence Remains on Hidden Settler Colonial Crisis of Disappeared First Nations Women
The Missing and Murdered First Nations Women and Children inquiry delivered its final report last Thursday, and as particular experts on disappeared First Nations women had warned on 15 May, the inquiry missed the mark by a wide berth as...
Neo-Nazis Are Now Demonstrating on the Streets, More Emboldened Than Ever
Just like clockwork neo-Nazis started mobilising on the streets of Meanjin and Naarm right after the terror level was raised to “probable”, which the evidence hints at being a far-right threat, and these black clad and masked white men have...
