1+ hour, 35+ min ago   (1079+ words) In a decision that smacks of intervention by a Labor government—essentially in defiance of a judge’s order—the Parole Authority in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) last week refused for the second time to release a…...

3+ week, 1+ hour ago   (955+ words) For the first time since unprecedented terrorism laws were imposed in Australia in 2002, the police and intelligence agencies are preparing to lay terrorism-related charges against alleged left-wing activists. This marks a revealing political shift. Despite the murky character of the…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (933+ words) In a bid to thwart a potential legal and constitutional challenge, the Albanese Labor government last week lifted a ban on the return of an Australian citizen from Syria, but only under conditions that resemble those of a police-state. The…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (971+ words) Australia’s supreme court last week unanimously dismissed an unprecedented bid by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Labor government to protect itself from liability for the unlawful indefinite incarceration of hundreds of people, including asylum seekers, in immigration prisons. But the logic…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (786+ words) Officeworks, a nationwide office supplies retail chain owned by Wesfarmers, one of Australia’s largest corporate employers, is making hundreds of customer service and back-office employees redundant while shifting many functions to offshore hubs in India and the Philippines. Officeworks’ restructuring…...

3+ mon, 1+ hour ago   (1216+ words) Despite the efforts of the Albanese Labor government to vilify and block them, a group of Islamic State-linked Australian citizens—19 women and children—trapped since 2019 in squalid conditions in the Al Roj internment camp in northeastern Syria returned to Australia…...

3+ mon, 2+ hour ago   (657+ words) The High Court of Australia this month granted leave for a legally narrow appeal by a small number of residents of public housing towers in Melbourne against Homes Victoria and the Allan state Labor government’s truly criminal plan to demolish…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (466+ words) Twenty-five low-income, mostly elderly residents of the Oasis apartment complex in St Kilda—an inner suburb of Australia’s second-largest city Melbourne—face being forced to vacate what they were told would be “forever homes.” In early March, residents in 25 Oasis…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1000+ words) A small group of four vulnerable women and nine children, who arrived in Australia yesterday after years of arbitrary detention in Syria, have been subjected to a venomous reception by the country’s Labor government and the entire political and media…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (954+ words) Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese announced a further step-up in military relations between the two countries at a meeting in Canberra on Monday, in a move that is part of the US-led confrontation with…...