Rough Sleeping Surges Nationwide, as Authorities Continue to Criminalise Homelessness
An extra 10,000 Australians are falling into homelessness every month, a new report by UNSW City Futures Research and Homelessness Australia reveals. This post-pandemic surge includes a 22 percent rise in rough sleepers, or those forced to sleep out on...
Aboriginal Tent Embassy Sydney Is Raising the Unfinished Business of Sovereignty
The sacred fire is once again burning at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy Sydney, which is located upon ancient songlines on Gadigal land in Isabel Coe Memorial Park, otherwise known as Camperdown’s Victoria Park, which backs onto Sydney University. And those...
Australian Police Top Global List in Terms of Arresting Climate Defenders
A report released in the UK this month confirms what some have long suspected: that in terms of arresting climate defenders, Australian police are some of the most eager on the planet, as, of the broad cross-section of fourteen nations...
NSW Government Finally Agrees to Trial Pill Testing at Music Festivals
The Minns government announced on Thursday, 19 December, that it “will commence a music festival-based pill testing trial in early 2025”, with the aim of reducing “risks and harms associated with illicit drug use”, and with this, the decade-long refusal...
NSW Police Officer in Unmarked Car Chases 12-Year-Old Gomeroi Boy on Foot
At around 8 pm on Friday 13 December 2024, an unmarked police car was caught on CCTV footage chasing a 12-year-old Gomeroi boy, who was on foot, down Chester Street in Moree in relation to a recent break and enter...
“A Genuinely Appalling Trifecta of Cruelty”: Albanese Targets Refugees for Political Gain
The Albanese government jammed a trio of migration bills through federal parliament on the last sitting day of the year, which have implications for tens of thousands of refugees, asylum seekers and migrant communities. And taken together, these laws that...
“Effectively a Death Sentence”: Shoebridge Visits Refugees Stranded in PNG by Australia
Sixty-odd refugees that arrived in Australian waters by boat about 10 years ago have been stranded in Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea. The majority of these men are the forgotten remnants of hundreds of people who were...
Criminal Offences Relating to Doxxing in Australia are Broader than Required
On the last sitting day of parliament in 2024, the Albanese government enacted two new federal criminal offences to outlaw doxxing, which, while they had already been under contemplation, were brought forward by Australian attorney general Mark Dreyfus at the...
The Antisemitism Envoy’s Call to Ban Antigenocide Protests in Cities is Undemocratic
“What we have experienced every single week in the cities of Sydney and Melbourne are these demonstrations and marches, and having insults hurtled at Jews and at Israel and anyone who supports Israel,” Australia’s antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal told SBS...
Should a Special Licence Be Required to Drive an ‘Ultra High-Powered Vehicle’?
On 1 December 2024, holders of South Australian driver’s licences were required to hold a special U-class licence for vehicles classed as ‘ultra high-powered vehicles’ (or UHPVs). Failing to hold such a licence when driving an UHPV amounts to a...
