The police crackdown, being coordinated at the highest levels of government and the state, marks a further step in the criminalisation of opposition to war.

According to the Human Rights Law Centre, 49 laws affecting protest have been introduced in federal, state, and territory ...

Next time you see a protest in the news, don’t be surprised to feel a burning sensation in your hip pocket. That’s because ...

Indigenous Australian senator Lidia Thorpe, who represents the state of Victoria, staged a protest as the King took his seat following his speech in the meeting place of Australia’s legislature ...

said it risked alienating “the other 96%” of Australia’s population who may not “see or understand the enduring impacts of colonisation”. “I don’t think the protest - the way that ...

After all, it seems reasonable to assume that the Liberal Party, being a liberal party, stands on the side of the sanctity of individual rights, of which freedom of political expression is a ...

and, "This is not your land" from Indigenous Australian Senator Lidia Thorpe ... in 2023 after laying down in front of a float to protest against the police presence at the event.

Gerard Mazza, 32, Jesse Noakes, 35, and Tahlia Stolarksi, 36, had been charged with aggravated burglary with intent after a Disrupt Burrup Hub protest at the Perth Convention ... gas and smoke flares.

In this impassioned climate, an unfocussed debate has emerged about Political protest ... the right to freedom of political speech and the expression of dissenting views in Australia.

When an Aboriginal Australian senator heckled King Charles ... But in the debate that followed on the “appropriateness” of the protest, something else became clear: a split within the ...