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...
Japan to Join Broadening US Force Posture in North Australia, Unless Trump Pulls the Plug
The 17th Trilateral Defence Ministers’ Meeting involving Australia, the US and Japan took place in Darwin on Sunday, 17 November, marking the first such meeting on local soil, and the big announcement of the day was that regular deployments of...
International Criminal Court Issues Global Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant
Six months after its first announcement, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on Thursday, 21 November, in relation to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and that nation’s former defence minister Yoav Gallant in response to a swag of alleged...
