Anthony Albanese once said that John Howard’s push to give the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation the power to arrest, detain and coerce people was a “draconian measure”. Now, as Peter Boyle writes, Labor has given ASIO new powers to do just that.
Nine-year-old Mira Hamad, living in Gaza, witnessed a bomb destroy her next-door neighbour. She now lives with the trauma. Jude Alexander spoke to her, her father and NSW Greens Senator David Shoebridge about the bomb and Australia’s connection to Israel’s computerised slaughter.
Veteran activist Coral Wynter joined hundreds of anti-war and First Nations activists at the Close Pine Gap, Sacred Land Back Convergence at Mparntwe/Alice Springs.
A convoy drove to the United States Pine Gap spy base and 500 people from across the country gathered outside the gates of the military facility to demand it be handed back to Traditional Owners. Kerry Smith reports.
Rallying against a transition from coal to weapons industry in Muloobinba/Newcastle. Video by Peter Boyle.
Hundreds joined a protest against the federal Labor government-supported transition from coal to becoming a weapons industry hub in the Hunter region. Peter Boyle reports.
Refugee rights organisations say a new Labor bill gives three ministers extraordinary powers to prevent people fleeing a conflict zone from seeking asylum in Australia. Pip Hinman reports.
The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party government has prevented United Nations human rights experts from accessing prisons, youth detention centres and police watch houses, reports Kerry Smith.
There is evidence that Australia is complicit in another genocide — in Sudan. Peter Boyle reports.
Greens Senator David Shoebridge became the first Australian parliamentarian to visit the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (also known as Rojava). He spoke with Green Left’s Peter Boyle about the visit.
Community members protested outside the United States’s most important foreign spy base — Pine Gap — over its role in the Western-backed Israeli genocide in Palestine. Kerry Smith reports.
As Palestinians continue to suffer under the so-called “peace plan” in Gaza, protesters called for an end to the weapons trade with Israel. Pip Hinman, Peter Boyle, Riley Breen and Alex Bainbridge report.
