Crime
Affray vs Assault: What’s the difference under Australian law?

Legal terminology can be confusing. Especially when you only ever hear them mentioned in news ...  
3 judges, 2 decades and 1 bad wig later, Tony Mokbel walks free

Drug baron Tony Mokbel pictured leaving Melbourne Magistrates' Court with criminal defence barr ...  
EXCLUSIVE: GC CEO secretively pushes through Tate pods development twice rejected by Council

A development financially benefitting Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate and twice rejected by elected ...  
EXCLUSIVE SUMMARY: Tom Tate and his Baker's pods collapse GC democracy

Despite the Gold Coast City Council twice voting to reject a development proposal endorsed by his ...  
Slow violence in the Kimberley’s forgotten prison

Year after year, Broome Prison remains overcrowded, degrading and overwhelmingly Indigenous — ...  
Australia’s whistleblower laws protect the state, not the truth

From Bernard Collaery to David McBride, the evidence shows Australia’s whistleblower framework ...  
Australia Day 2026 violently exposes deep national divisions

If the aim of Australia Day is to promote national unity and social cohesion, writes Dave Donovan ...  
Royal commission push after Bondi killings driven by politics, not evidence

The demand for a royal commission into the Bondi killings reflects media and political pressure ...  
How Iran’s regime weaponised religion

Behind the language of morality and law, Iran’s theocracy has spent decades protecting abusers ...  
With crime decreasing, Australia has far too many citizens in gaol

The latest prisoner numbers raise several important questions.  
Royal Commission on Bondi attack raises questions of independence

As political pressure mounts, the royal commission into the Bondi attack is already facing scru ...  
Gangsters, genocide and gagging dissent

As Trump's world domination plans go into overdrive, managing editor Michelle Pini discusses the ...  
REVIEW: The Butterfly Women

Belinda Donovan reviews historical romance thriller, 'The Butterfly Women', by Madeleine Cleary. ...  
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#9 TOP STORY OF 2025: Why six Australian Jews accused leading local Zionist of antisemitism

When a leading Zionist calls six other Australian Jews "antisemitic" – and worse – over c ...  
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#10 TOP IA STORY OF 2025: EXCLUSIVE! GC Mayor makes millions selling Bowls Club to Chinese developers

The 2025 Top Ten begins with this stunning December scoop, part of the "Tate Town" series b ...  
Bondi after the bullets

I was at a birthday dinner when I received a message from my brother that immediately felt wrong. ...  
Chris Hedges speaks to IA about Gaza genocide, Bondi and 'blowback'

In this special Indy Eye podcast, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges joins Michelle ...  
Bondi under fire: How Australia responded to terror and fear

What has changed after the Bondi terrorist attack on Sunday 14 December?  

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