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The relentless pursuit of Assange and subsequently of Edward Snowden were important milestones on the path, via the national security, administrative, and surveillance state, to the rise of the biomedical state in which we now find ourselves.

If people want to celebrate the release of Julian Assange, fine, I get it. But I don't think this guy is a straight-up hero or martyr for free speech, and I think the situation is far more complex than the dominant narrative of one innocent, pure-hearted guy finally getting justice.

Nearly all House Democrats voted against a “generation-defining” election security bill that would certify only U.S. citizens to register to vote in national elections — a bill President Joe Biden has promised to veto.

The impartiality of the Federal Court is in question in light of allegations that a judge concealed her connections to pharmaceutical giant Pfizer before dismissing a legal challenge over its Covid vaccine.

How are we meant to feel about the Prime Minister’s announcement that he is appointing a special envoy for anti-Semitism? How did we get to a point where we now need special advisors, in order to keep a law-abiding, peaceful, highly productive section of our community safe?

As our situational awareness can impact the lives and futures of others as well as ourselves, our ability to identify and assess any potential threats, and our ability to take the necessary steps to address them, may diminish the impact of a tragedy.

Two Republican States and five social media users sued the government for breaching their constitutional right to free speech. They alleged that platforms which were coerced into censoring voices critical of COVID-19 policies would do so on other issues.

For months, the Voice was all we talked about. And then — nothing. The “week of silence” declared by Indigenous leaders after the referendum’s defeat was only barely succeeded by serious reflection from the rest of Australia.

Former President Donald Trump has overcome a major political hurdle in his quest for a White House re-run. The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Trump’s favour, warning against political prosecution of former Presidents.

Our hope is not in the person in the White House or the Lodge, but in the King of Kings. This hope allows us to live non-anxiously with the messiness and brokenness of this world and its politics, knowing that our home and our security are not in a temporal country.

Senators Alex Antic (LNP), Matt Canavan (LNP), Ralph Babet (UAP), Matt O’Sullivan (LNP), Gerrard Rennick (LNP), and Malcolm Roberts (PHON) put forward the COVID-19 Response Commission of Inquiry Bill 2024 last Tuesday.

Is there a climate emergency, or not? That’s the question North Sydney Council needs to answer after threatening to fine electric vehicle owners for running power cords across footpaths to charge their EVs.

The Victorian Parliament will debate whether or not to continue opening proceedings with the Lord’s Prayer. The debate has been forced by the Catholic Church after the Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan proposed ditching the prayer because, well, “diversity”.

The NSW Greens hit peak levels of hypocrisy and humour this week as they made a last-ditch effort to stop a resolution of the cemeteries matter that has been dragging on for years.

The Queensland Labor Government has said it will not release the health advice underpinning harsh restrictions imposed during the pandemic because it does not exist. This news will come as a massive shock to exactly nobody.

Australian Wikileaks boss Julian Assange is free, following a plea deal. While immediate, his release is conditional. Assange’s future freedom rests on pleading guilty to the United States Justice Department’s charge of espionage.

The centrepiece of the NSW Labor Government’s budget was billions of dollars for public housing. Yet, at the same time that they were promising new homes to ease the housing crisis, they were refusing to raise the tax-free threshold on land tax.

Bourla said that disinformation is “the worst thing that I have seen during this pandemic”, before going on to liken independent scientists questioning “the science” to Goebbels spreading disinformation about the Jews.

The autobiography of the former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has got to be one of the most surprising books I have read in quite some time. I picked it up expecting him to talk about politics, when it’s primarily about God.

It has now been almost 15 months since the Covenant School attack, and the public is still waiting for officials to explain what animated the deadliest mass shooting in Tennessee history.