Trump’s Divisive Rights-Eroding Policies Are Already Shaping a Future Dutton Government
As the 2025 election draws closer, Liberal opposition leader Peter Dutton continues to cop criticism for his lack of policies, his dearth of vision and his long-term openly racist points of views - however, this is somewhat unfair. Mr Dutton...
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Trump’s Authoritarianism Has Already Reshaped Western Politics
Over the last week, the newly incumbent Trump administration has both reshaped the domestic politics of the United States and also those of the western world, as his onslaught of authoritarian executive orders issued over his first days in office...
How Trump’s New Policies Will Harm Australia — and the World
Breaking records can sometimes be seen as innovative and exciting. However, in this case, Trump’s shattering of previously held number of executive actions initiated on the first day of his presidency is not thrilling or compelling for America’s future. Instead,...
Australia’s Criminal Justice Crackdown on Kids Recognised in Global Report
In its annual assessment of human rights practices in over 100 countries in 2024, Human Rights Watch drew attention to this nation’s reversals of the rights of children in its criminal justice system, which last year saw something of a...
AFP Suggests Foreign Actors Are Paying Locals to Commit Antisemitic Crimes
The insinuations linking the much-demonised local pro-Palestinian movement that formed in opposition to the Israeli state-perpetrated Gaza genocide to a spate of antisemitic attacks in NSW and Victoria appear to be dissipating, as AFP commissioner Reece Kershaw suggested on Tuesday...
NSW Government Uses Antisemitic Incidents to Toughen Hate Speech and Anti-Protest Laws
Amidst ongoing antisemitic attacks in Sydney, New South Wales premier Chris Minns announced on 19 January 2025 that his administration has come to the “difficult decision” to toughen NSW hate speech law and the anti-protest regime. But to claim that...
Knocking Albo Off His Perch: An Interview with Greens for Grayndler’s Hannah Thomas
Encompassing Sydney’s Inner West region, the federal seat of Grayndler is known for having some of the most progressive voters in NSW and right across the country. The seat of Grayndler has been held by current prime minister Anthony Albanese...
McBride Continues to Be the Only One Stewing in Prison Over Afghan War Crimes
Australian Defence Force whistleblower David McBride continues to be the only individual in prison with a connection to Australian war crimes allegedly perpetrated by this nation’s special forces (SAS) troops in Afghanistan over the course of Australia’s participation in the...
International Intervention in Gaza Is Necessary, Asserts Australian Peace Network
For the last three months, Israel has been conjuring Hell on Earth in northern Gaza. In October 2024, the apartheid state commenced a fresh offensive in the north of the 40-kilometre walled-in region, which it continues into the present. This...
UN Finds Australia Is Responsible and Owes Compensation for Rights Violations on Nauru
The United Nations Human Rights Committee (CCPR) has determined that in transferring 24 unaccompanied minors from the Global South, who were seeking asylum, to offshore detention in Nauru in 2014 was definitely in breach of the rights contained in the...
