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Proposed Temporary Ban on NSW Protests Is a Slippery Slope to Permanency

Proposed Temporary Ban on NSW Protests Is a Slippery Slope to Permanency

The Bondi Beach massacre was an appalling hate crime targeting Sydney’s Jewish community. But the subsequent intermingling and implication of the local pro-Palestine/antigenocide protest movement in post-shooting public statements is an affront. Indeed, the psychotic father and son shooters appear to be ISIS-affiliated, and ISIS has no association with ...
There is Broad Social and Political Agreement on the Need to Reform NSW Firearms Laws

There is Broad Social and Political Agreement on the Need to Reform NSW Firearms Laws

In the wake of the horrendous Bondi Beach massacre, the Minns government has taken the extraordinary measure of reconvening NSW parliament for two days right before Christmas, as it has already officially closed for the year, and this is primarily to consider new firearm laws that NSW premier Chris Mins considers ought to be in place before the entire ...
Thorpe Demands Albanese Intervene as Aboriginal Custody Deaths Higher Than Ever

Thorpe Demands Albanese Intervene as Aboriginal Custody Deaths Higher Than Ever

Despite decades of campaigning to end the crisis of Aboriginal deaths in custody, the Australian Institute of Criminology reported on 10 December 2025, that 33 First Nations people had died in the custody of either law enforcement or corrections over the year 2024-25, which comprised the highest number since monitoring began in 1979-80. So, Senator ...
Antisemitic Mass Murder at Bondi Beach Robs Us All of Our Common Humanity

Antisemitic Mass Murder at Bondi Beach Robs Us All of Our Common Humanity

The mass murder shooting targeting the local Jewish community gathered at the “Chanukah by the Sea” event on Gadigal land at Bondi Beach on Sunday, 14 December 2025, was a sickening hate crime that’s now being investigated as an act of terrorism, after a father and son from the city’s west callously gunned down 15 strangers and injured over 40 more, at ...
All Australians Should Be Concerned About the US Surveilling Our Migrant Population

All Australians Should Be Concerned About the US Surveilling Our Migrant Population

During a 24 November 2025 US Department of State presser, an official told the foreign press that the Trump administration has ordered its embassies in Australia, Europe, New Zealand and Canada to monitor local migrants in respect of crime. And while the Albanese government has failed to mention this, Greens Senator David Shoebridge warns that the ...
Googatha Elder Aunty Sue Haseldine on the Imposition of the Koonibba Test Range on Country

Googatha Elder Aunty Sue Haseldine on the Imposition of the Koonibba Test Range on Country

Googatha elder Aunty Sue Haseldine was out on Country last month, which is located in northeastern so-called South Australia – north of the town of Ceduna – when she got word that Southern Launch, the private space company that runs the Koonibba Test Range, which happens to sit upon Googatha Country, would be running a test launch of a rocket in ...

Proposed Temporary Ban on NSW Protests Is a Slippery Slope to Permanency

Proposed Temporary Ban on NSW Protests Is a Slippery Slope to Permanency
The Bondi Beach massacre was an appalling hate crime targeting Sydney’s Jewish community. But the subsequent intermingling and implication of the local pro-Palestine/antigenocide protest movement in post-shooting public statements is an affront. Indeed, the psychotic father and son shooters appear to be ISIS-affiliated, and ISIS has no association with ...

There is Broad Social and Political Agreement on the Need to Reform NSW Firearms Laws

There is Broad Social and Political Agreement on the Need to Reform NSW Firearms Laws
In the wake of the horrendous Bondi Beach massacre, the Minns government has taken the extraordinary measure of reconvening NSW parliament for two days right before Christmas, as it has already officially closed for the year, and this is primarily to consider new firearm laws that NSW premier Chris Mins considers ought to be in place before the entire ...

Thorpe Demands Albanese Intervene as Aboriginal Custody Deaths Higher Than Ever

Thorpe Demands Albanese Intervene as Aboriginal Custody Deaths Higher Than Ever
Despite decades of campaigning to end the crisis of Aboriginal deaths in custody, the Australian Institute of Criminology reported on 10 December 2025, that 33 First Nations people had died in the custody of either law enforcement or corrections over the year 2024-25, which comprised the highest number since monitoring began in 1979-80. So, Senator ...

Antisemitic Mass Murder at Bondi Beach Robs Us All of Our Common Humanity

Antisemitic Mass Murder at Bondi Beach Robs Us All of Our Common Humanity
The mass murder shooting targeting the local Jewish community gathered at the “Chanukah by the Sea” event on Gadigal land at Bondi Beach on Sunday, 14 December 2025, was a sickening hate crime that’s now being investigated as an act of terrorism, after a father and son from the city’s west callously gunned down 15 strangers and injured over 40 more, at ...

All Australians Should Be Concerned About the US Surveilling Our Migrant Population

All Australians Should Be Concerned About the US Surveilling Our Migrant Population
During a 24 November 2025 US Department of State presser, an official told the foreign press that the Trump administration has ordered its embassies in Australia, Europe, New Zealand and Canada to monitor local migrants in respect of crime. And while the Albanese government has failed to mention this, Greens Senator David Shoebridge warns that the ...

Googatha Elder Aunty Sue Haseldine on the Imposition of the Koonibba Test Range on Country

Googatha Elder Aunty Sue Haseldine on the Imposition of the Koonibba Test Range on Country
Googatha elder Aunty Sue Haseldine was out on Country last month, which is located in northeastern so-called South Australia – north of the town of Ceduna – when she got word that Southern Launch, the private space company that runs the Koonibba Test Range, which happens to sit upon Googatha Country, would be running a test launch of a rocket in ...