The UK Refusal to Extradite El-Khouri to the US Conflicts with the Australian Decision on Duggan
The 12 February 2025 decision of five justices of the UK Supreme Court to refuse to extradite dual British and Lebanese citizen Joseph El-Khouri to the US stands in stark contrast to the decision of the NSW Local Court to...
Former Philippines President Faces Trial Over Drug War Killing Spree
The fact that former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte, who on taking office in June 2016, launched a drug war comprised of mass extrajudicial killings that continued until he left office in June 2022, is now in the custody of the...
Will an Expansionist Trump Turn His Colonial Gaze Towards Australia?
As the nation heads to the ballot on 3 May 2025, Civil Liberties Australia (CLA) has suggested to the Australian constituency that as it heads to the vote “the spectre of rabid, fanatical” and indeed, expansionist US president Donald Trump...
Zionist Federation Lodges Federal Court Complaint Against Journalist Mary Kostakidis
The Zionist Federation of Australia filed a legal action against renowned Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis with the Federal Court of Australia last Monday, in respect of a complaint it first raised with the Australian Human Rights Commission in July 2024...
AUKUS: The Fleecing of the Australian Public for US Strategic Interests
In its recent report into the AUKUS pact and its increasingly fabled Australian-owned nuclear-powered submarines (SSN), Australians for War Powers Reform (AWPR) asserts that the “AUKUS pact has become a textbook example of how to disenfranchise the community, providing almost...
Sydney Trans Community Remains Visible in Defiance of Local and US Existential Threats
Much of Sydney’s transgender community and its supporters gathered on Gadigal land in Newtown’s Pride Square last Sunday, for the Pride in Protest hosted Trans Day of Visibility rally 2025. And as speaker after speaker took the microphone, the message...
Trump Proposes to Deport Pro-Palestinians to Appease Israel. Could It Happen Here?
In amongst its authoritarian grab for power, its drive to disempower minorities and to establish white supremacy, the US Trump administration has commenced a targeted campaign against foreign pro-Palestinian students and academics, who had been outspoken against Israel’s genocide in...
Political Block on Atrocity Prosecutions Remains, As Major Parties Reject Genocide Reforms
The Labor-Liberal ruling duopoly voted down Senator Lidia Thorpe’s Genocide Bill in the Senate on Wednesday, which meant the major parties agreed that a political veto afforded the attorney general in respect progressing atrocity crime prosecutions, that ensures inequality before...
Will Australian Leaders Extradite Dan Duggan to an Authoritarian USA?
Experts are describing the assault on the democratic institution of the separation of powers the newly incumbent Trump administration has embarked upon, via its executive order issuing bonanza over the last two months, as a “blitzkrieg on the rule of...
Next in Donald Trump’s Authoritarian Crosshairs: Law Firms and Lawyers
When Adolf Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany in 1933, he launched a campaign to ensure the disempowerment of those who stood in the way of his authoritarian agenda. At the top of the soon-to-be dictator’s list were judges and...