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Musgrave Park eviction sparks questions over Council’s safety claims

Brisbane City Council’s removal of rough sleepers from Musgrave Park has raised questions about ...  
Deportation by design: How Australia engineered mass exile

Deportations from Australia are at their highest rate because we have rewritten our laws to enable ...  
Australia’s youth detention system punishes kids but fails to rehabilitate them

The punitive approach of our youth detention system only serves narrow, short-term political ...  
Queensland’s war on words: Antisemitism Bill threatens free speech

In a feat of enterprising delusion and sinister suppression, Australia’s second-largest state ...  
Hitler’s Moscow to Trump’s Minneapolis: When power meets resistance

As federal force meets organised resistance, Minneapolis becomes a defining moment in Trump’s ...  
Gun control at home, gun profits abroad: Australia’s defence contradiction

Australia’s strict gun laws have reduced domestic gun violence, but the country still enables ...  
Sydney protests are our Minneapolis moment

When riot police use force against peaceful protesters and premiers applaud the batons, it’s no ...  
LEY DOWN! Libs forge on with "Fantastic" failure  Angus Taylor — liar, denier and water rorter

The Liberals have chosen Angus Taylor, a proven liar who is opposed to net zero policies, as the ...  
Australia’s DV system is gaslighting male victims

Australia counts female DV deaths, but it doesn’t count DV-linked male suicides.  
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 ...  
No intelligence, no trust: The hidden cost of Australia’s foreign policy

Australia’s legally defensible foreign policy decisions are eroding community trust at home ...  
Silencing the evidence: How Australia’s whistleblower inquiry buried the truth

A Senate Inquiry that promised whistleblower reform instead buried critical evidence, suppressed ...  
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 ...  
Mayhem is the point: Trump's politics of terror

What looks like chaos on America’s streets is not a breakdown of authority, but the deliberate ...  
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 ...  
Antisemitism or accountability? Drawing the line without erasing free speech

As Australia tightens hate-speech laws, a flawed definition of antisemitism risks being weaponised ...  
Trump’s MAGA militia strategy and the erosion of restraint

As the midterms approach, Trump’s politics of force are reshaping both foreign policy and ...  

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