Chris Minns apologised to the 78ers in 2016 about police violence. Barbara Karpinski writes that police are still traumatising youth at an ever-increasing rate and that Mardi Gras has to acknowledge this.
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Public money must come with public obligations, argues Suzanne James. If publicly-funded institutions are to serve a diverse population, they must operate on civic principles that apply equally to all.
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While opinion polls show Pauline Hanson’s One Nation ahead of the Coalition, how substantial or transient this is remains a political question, argues Alex Bainbridge.
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Multiple government agreements have been made to “close the gap” but, as Peter Boyle writes, the 2025 Closing the Gap report reveals that most measures will not be reached by 2030.
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In Australia’s mostly corporate-owned media landscape, Green Left has been speaking truth to power for 35 years. Ben Radford explains GL’s commitment to building grassroots movements, reporting on events distorted by the mainstream media and showing international solidarity.
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Suzette Meade writes that former Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen justified his authoritarianism, dressed up as “law and order”, to claim that “order” required the silencing of public voices. Now, NSW Premier Chris Minns is doing the same.
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When the masses chanted “Arrest Herzog”, they were not calling for vengeance but accountability, writes Shamikh Badra.
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Israel’s President Herzog has departed leaving less “social cohesion”, while politicians, justices and NSW Police have many questions to answer, writes Wendy Bacon.
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The police violence at the protest against the visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog reflects a deeper political failure of the system, argues Stuart Rees.
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Judith Treanor writes that had authorities facilitated a peaceful march, the huge protest against Isaac Herzog on Gadigal Country/Sydney would have concluded without incident, as it did in more than 30 other places across the country that night.
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Pip Hinman argues that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s invitation to Israeli President Isaac Herzog to visit Australia has underscored the deep ties between Labor and the genocidal state of Israel.
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Activists Gabi McCutcheon and Paula Corvalan share their accounts of the NSW Police violence at the Sydney protest against Israeli President Isaac Herzog.