NSW Fails to Embrace Harm Minimisation, Preferring to Continue the Futile War on Drugs
This week’s New South Wales Drug Summit gave many people hope that our state would finally move away from the failed war on drugs and embrace drug minimisation measures such as decriminalisation and pill testing. But drug law reform experts...
NSW Government Proposes to Extend Anti-Protest Regime to “Places of Worship”
Just when it appeared that NSW premier Chris Minns had exhausted all possible avenues to further expand the draconian NSW antiprotest regime, the top Labor minister has pulled yet another rabbit out of his hat, and this time the potential...
Five Eyes Nations Collectively Warn of Rising Online Youth Radicalisation
The intelligence and law enforcement agencies of the Five Eyes nations released a joint communique late last week, in which these bodies warn about the rising threat of youth radicalisation, and in particular “minors who support, plan or undertake terrorist...
Queensland Rushes to Pass Laws By Christmas That Would See Kids Sentenced as Adults
Draconian youth crime laws are set to pass Queensland parliament on Thursday, 12 December, which were long spruiked by the Crisafulli government in opposition, under the banner of ‘adult crime, adult time’, which will soon see youths that commit certain...
Police Officer Sent to Prison for Falsifying Evidence
A police officer has been sentenced to imprisonment for fabricating evidence against a woman during an investigation into drug offences. 37-year old former police detective Jye Symes pleaded guilty to one count of misconduct in public offence after falsely claiming...
Verdict Is In: The 2024 NSW Drug Summit Was Designed to Be an Abject Failure
“Nothing worthwhile ever comes out of an echo chamber,” said NSW premier Chris Minns, as he opened two days of NSW Drug Summit proceedings on Gadigal land at Sydney’s ICC on 4 December 2024. “We want different perspectives. We want...
“Pine Gap Is a Place of Aggression”, Say Peace Activists in Court Over Blockading the Facility
A group of peace activists grabbed headlines on 27 November last year, when they blocked the main road into the Pine Gap US-Australia Joint Defence Facility to highlight that the base, situated about 20 kilometres outside of Mparntwe-Alice Springs, has...
Blak Caucus Protest for First Nations Rights on Gadigal in Sydney in Photos
An impressive crowd gathered on Gadigal land before Sydney Town Hall on Saturday, 7 December, for the Justice for First Nations rally to mark International Human Rights Day, despite the fact that it was pissing down rain, and the humidity...
The Thorpe-Payman Red-Lines Package Puts Genocide on the Agenda for 2025
The final sitting day of federal parliament on Ngunnawal Country in Canberra was notable this year, due to its focus on the international criminal offence of genocide. Parliamentary proceedings on 28 November 2024 were supposed to commence with a vote...
Despite Promising to Save Whistleblowers, Labor Has “Undeniably Declared War on” Them
Independent member for Clark Andrew Wilkie put it to attorney general Mark Dreyfus on the final sitting day of federal parliament for 2024 that the Albanese government “has undeniably declared war on whistleblowers”, and he questioned whether the nation’s chief...
