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...
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...
The Biased Political Response to the Synagogue Arson Attack Promotes Social Division
The firebombing of the Adass Israel Synagogue of Melbourne, in the city’s southeastern suburb of Ripponlea at around 4 am last Friday, 6 December, has rightfully been condemned. Indeed, all violent attacks upon places of worship should be shunned. The...
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...
Arrest Warrant Against Netanyahu Strengthens the Genocide Claim Against His Australian Adviser
Lawyers representing Mark Regev, former senior adviser to Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, are to put it to the Magistrates’ Court of Victoria on 11 December 2024 that their client can’t be prosecuted over advocating genocide, as part of a private...
Stop the Extradition: AG Stalls on Decision to Extradite Dan Duggan to the US
Since NSW Magistrate Daniel Reiss greenlighted the US request to extradite Australian citizen Daniel Duggan on 24 May 2024, the final decision on whether to send the father-of-six away bounced back to federal attorney general Mark Dreyfus, who was responsible...
Pro-Palestinian Rally on Gadigal 60 Weeks Strong: Gaza Genocide 60 Weeks Too Long
The 60th consecutive Palestine Action Group rally against the Gaza genocide took place on Gadigal land in Sydney’s Hyde Park North on Sunday, 1 December 2024 and, as is now the usual, the Free Palestine procession created a commanding din...
Duopoly Killjoys Cannabis Bill, as Historic First Vote Takes Place in Federal Parliament
NSW Greens Senator David Shoebridge is the first federal parliamentarian to have brought on a parliamentary vote on the question of legalising cannabis before Australian parliament, and there is a hell of a lot of people in the community that...
“Important to Stand with Us”: Dunghutti Activist Paul Silva on Rallying for First Nations Justice
The last 14 months around the globe have been marked by the horrors of the Israeli-perpetrated genocide in Gaza and also the rising realisation that western forces that have committed mass destruction upon Indigenous peoples in the past continue to...
Criminal Offences of Injuring or Killing Australian Citizens or Residents Overseas
Six tourists including two young Australian women, both aged 19-years, are now deceased as a result of a mass poisoning in a popular South-East Asian holiday destination in Laos, after consuming drinks that are believed to have contained methanol. The...
