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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 ...
Colombia Is Leading Progressive Drug Law Reform: Interview with Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann

Colombia Is Leading Progressive Drug Law Reform: Interview with Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann

Speaking at a recent cannabis symposium at Sydney University, NSW Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann told the crowd that she’d attended the 2025 Harm Reduction International Conference held in Bogota, Colombia, and the proposals being tossed about at that forum pretty much blew those comprising the NSW reform campaign out the water, in terms of how far their ...
Preventing the “Fractured Far Right” from Gaining Traction: Palestinian Organiser Tasnim Sammak

Preventing the “Fractured Far Right” from Gaining Traction: Palestinian Organiser Tasnim Sammak

White Australian nationalists are not new. What is, however, are the monthly nationwide far right protests occurring since August, which spout antiimmigration rhetoric and are linked to rising white supremacism in the UK and in the US, where a fascistic Trump administration reigns supreme. But the local far right is “fractured” and those mobilising ...

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 ...

Colombia Is Leading Progressive Drug Law Reform: Interview with Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann

Colombia Is Leading Progressive Drug Law Reform: Interview with Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann
Speaking at a recent cannabis symposium at Sydney University, NSW Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann told the crowd that she’d attended the 2025 Harm Reduction International Conference held in Bogota, Colombia, and the proposals being tossed about at that forum pretty much blew those comprising the NSW reform campaign out the water, in terms of how far their ...

Preventing the “Fractured Far Right” from Gaining Traction: Palestinian Organiser Tasnim Sammak

Preventing the “Fractured Far Right” from Gaining Traction: Palestinian Organiser Tasnim Sammak
White Australian nationalists are not new. What is, however, are the monthly nationwide far right protests occurring since August, which spout antiimmigration rhetoric and are linked to rising white supremacism in the UK and in the US, where a fascistic Trump administration reigns supreme. But the local far right is “fractured” and those mobilising ...