United Nations special rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous peoples Dr Albert K Barume has just been refused entry into two Australian child prisons. The UN expert has been denied entry to the Cleveland youth facility located on Bindal and Wulgurukaba land in Queensland, whilst he has also been blocked from entering the Holtz facility on Larrakia ...
At least thirteen nations across the planet have recently issued directives to their publics, calling on households to stockpile goods in preparedness for emergencies or disasters that involve the collapse of supply chains or critical infrastructure. And such nations include the United Kingdom, France and Japan.
Most of these directives have involved ...
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles:
UN Confirms Israel Continues to Commit Genocide in Gaza a Year After Trump Ceasefire
The report found that Israel continues to perpetrate genocide against the Palestinian people despite a ceasefire having supposedly been in effect for a year.
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After decades of warnings from civil liberties experts, technology has reached a point where a deluge of methods to surveil the public are being developed, deployed and honed. With the question relating to the most recently announced surveillance regimes – AI CCTV surveillance on Gadigal land in Sydney and drone policing on Noongar land in south Perth ...
The Department of Defence introduced a bill last week that reforms defence legislation to accelerate the capability development needed to progress the 2026 National Defence Strategy (NDS). The bill establishes two key reforms that would end the need to seek approval from states and territories when developing capabilities across jurisdictions, via ...
Prominent United Nations special rapporteur Ben Saul has submitted a report to the UN General Assembly, in which he decries the recent shift in certain member states – think Trump’s America – classifying drug cartels as terrorists, when they should maintain an organised crime approach, and rather, look to harm reduction alternatives, like ...
Pride in Protest has just announced that it’s running an all trans women ticket for the 2026 Mardi Gras board election to be held at this year’s annual general meeting on 28 November 2026. This announcement comes after a turbulent year for the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras that came to a head in July, when an extraordinary general meeting saw two ...
Dozens of cyclists in New South Wales have had their illegal e-bikes seized and destroyed over recent months, during two NSW Police Force blitzes on illegal e-bike use in the state, which have been carried out under the provisions of the newly legislated illegal e-bike confiscation and destruction regime.
The most recent operation occurred across ...
ASECA Priorities is the latest report from this nation’s most powerful unelected official, Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism (ASECA) Jillian Segal. And her priorities involve all Australian governments, institutions and organisations adopting the IHRA working definition of antisemitism, which is a mechanism that serves to shield ...
The Alliance of Forgotten Australians (AFA) roundtable was held on Ngunnawal and Ngambri land at Australian Parliament House on 26 October 2026. The met involved Australian social services minister Tanya Plibersek and Forgotten Australians discussing whether federal Labor will commit to ongoing assistance for these people after the National Redress ...
A United Nations inquiry has confirmed that the Israeli state has continued to perpetrate war crimes and the crimes against humanity of extermination, persecution, torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, intentionally targeting Palestinian civilians as it continues to commit genocide in Gaza”.
The ...
The New South Wales Police Force has been gifted extraordinary powers to rip the content of civilians’ phones when such devices are seized during arrests, roadside stops and other lawful detentions, if an “organised crime offence” is suspected. These powers, that are yet to be enacted, will permit officers to use an Israeli Cellebrite UFED device to ...
United Nations special rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous peoples Dr Albert K Barume has just been refused entry into two Australian child prisons. The UN expert has been denied entry to the Cleveland youth facility located on Bindal and Wulgurukaba land in Queensland, whilst he has also been blocked from entering the Holtz facility on Larrakia ...
At least thirteen nations across the planet have recently issued directives to their publics, calling on households to stockpile goods in preparedness for emergencies or disasters that involve the collapse of supply chains or critical infrastructure. And such nations include the United Kingdom, France and Japan.
Most of these directives have involved ...
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles:
UN Confirms Israel Continues to Commit Genocide in Gaza a Year After Trump Ceasefire
The report found that Israel continues to perpetrate genocide against the Palestinian people despite a ceasefire having supposedly been in effect for a year.
Click here to ...
After decades of warnings from civil liberties experts, technology has reached a point where a deluge of methods to surveil the public are being developed, deployed and honed. With the question relating to the most recently announced surveillance regimes – AI CCTV surveillance on Gadigal land in Sydney and drone policing on Noongar land in south Perth ...
The Department of Defence introduced a bill last week that reforms defence legislation to accelerate the capability development needed to progress the 2026 National Defence Strategy (NDS). The bill establishes two key reforms that would end the need to seek approval from states and territories when developing capabilities across jurisdictions, via ...
Prominent United Nations special rapporteur Ben Saul has submitted a report to the UN General Assembly, in which he decries the recent shift in certain member states – think Trump’s America – classifying drug cartels as terrorists, when they should maintain an organised crime approach, and rather, look to harm reduction alternatives, like ...
Pride in Protest has just announced that it’s running an all trans women ticket for the 2026 Mardi Gras board election to be held at this year’s annual general meeting on 28 November 2026. This announcement comes after a turbulent year for the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras that came to a head in July, when an extraordinary general meeting saw two ...
Dozens of cyclists in New South Wales have had their illegal e-bikes seized and destroyed over recent months, during two NSW Police Force blitzes on illegal e-bike use in the state, which have been carried out under the provisions of the newly legislated illegal e-bike confiscation and destruction regime.
The most recent operation occurred across ...
ASECA Priorities is the latest report from this nation’s most powerful unelected official, Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism (ASECA) Jillian Segal. And her priorities involve all Australian governments, institutions and organisations adopting the IHRA working definition of antisemitism, which is a mechanism that serves to shield ...
The Alliance of Forgotten Australians (AFA) roundtable was held on Ngunnawal and Ngambri land at Australian Parliament House on 26 October 2026. The met involved Australian social services minister Tanya Plibersek and Forgotten Australians discussing whether federal Labor will commit to ongoing assistance for these people after the National Redress ...
A United Nations inquiry has confirmed that the Israeli state has continued to perpetrate war crimes and the crimes against humanity of extermination, persecution, torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, intentionally targeting Palestinian civilians as it continues to commit genocide in Gaza”.
The ...
The New South Wales Police Force has been gifted extraordinary powers to rip the content of civilians’ phones when such devices are seized during arrests, roadside stops and other lawful detentions, if an “organised crime offence” is suspected. These powers, that are yet to be enacted, will permit officers to use an Israeli Cellebrite UFED device to ...
