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Julian Assange’s extradition trial continues as an attack on journalism
How the High Court’s “alien” ruling inches us closer to addressing the facts that matter
How far away is mass surveillance when Australian governments are linking CCTV cameras to facial-recognition technology and providing photo IDs to a nationwide system known as ‘the Capability’?
Bernard Collaery eagerly awaits his national security trial, energised by the prospect of highlighting the government’s misdeeds
Searching for the truth in Yuendumu
Very little has been learnt from the death in custody on Palm Island
The prevention state: Part four
In the face of widespread criticism of strip-searches, NSW Police offers a candid defence of preventative policing: You are meant to fear us.
The prevention state: Part three
As authorities try to prevent crimes that haven’t happened, legislation is increasingly targeting people for whom it was not intended.
The prevention state: Part two
Risk has overtaken wealth as the organising principle of society. But the powers being granted police are not always based on real threats.
The prevention state: Part one
Governments and police are trying to pre-empt danger with legislation. But when the risk is terrorism, there are limits to what is possible.
Were systemic racism and unconscious bias among police officers behind the death in custody of Tanya Day?