Protest the Invasion of Aboriginal Land This 26th of January: Interview with Dunghutti Activist Paul Silva
The Invasion Day rally on Gadigal land 2025 is set to commence this Sunday at Sydney’s Belmore Park at 10 am. The 26th of January this year marks 237 years since British ships pulled up in what’s today known as...
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...
The Demonisation of Antiwar Activists Is Afoot, Explains Wage Peace’s Margaret Pestorius
The Queensland Police Service Counterterrorism Investigation Unit executed five search warrants across Magandjin-Brisbane on 23 January last year, in relation to two nonviolent antiwar demonstrations that had recently taken place in the southeast of the state. Wage Peace activist educator...
“Effectively a Death Sentence”: Shoebridge Visits Refugees Stranded in PNG by Australia
Sixty-odd refugees that arrived in Australian waters by boat about 10 years ago have been stranded in Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea. The majority of these men are the forgotten remnants of hundreds of people who were...
Thirty-Ninth Arrest for Climate: Violet CoCo on Repeatedly Sacrificing Liberty for Planet
The recent Rising Tide Newcastle Coal Port blockade successfully disrupted the shipping lane into the world’s largest coal port, and it did this for an extended number of hours on Sunday 24 November, even with the massive state repressions that...
“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...
Cops Out of Mardi Gras Is Still Key, Says Pride in Protest’s Damien Nguyen
Pride in Protest is running four candidates in this year’s Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Board election, which is taking place at the end of 12 months that have seen the queer social justice group’s long-term goal of removing...
National Network’s Tabitha Lean on Country Liberal Crackdown on NT Inmates
After cleaning up at the August 2024 election, the Finocchiaro ministry has been implementing its tough-on-crime agenda for the Northern Territory, which by late October meant the removal of women inmates from Mparntwe-Alice Springs and sticking them in the overcrowded...
“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...
Wollongong Friends of Palestine’s Jet Hunt on the Ongoing Bisalloy Steel Community Picket
According to Wollongong Friends of Palestine organiser Jet Hunt, a “strong appetite for mass militancy” has taken hold across grassroots Australia, ever since Israeli forces unleashed a genocidal assault upon the Palestinians of the walled-in Gaza Strip fourteen months ago,...
