Australian authorities are dramatically ramping up the sentences faced by peaceful climate crisis protesters
New South Wales’ chilling landscape for environmental protest
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Contents – Playing with fire: how theatre is resisting the oppressor
The Winter issue of Index magazine highlights the battles fought by theatre of resistance across the world and how they've been enduring different forms of censorship. Writer Jonathan Maitland dives deeply into the history of theatre censorship in...
Respect for tradition: Australia’s selective listening on environment issues
First Nations voices are often ignored. Now Yvonne Weldon is hoping to change that as she bids to become the first Aboriginal Lord Mayor of Sydney
Contents – Climate of fear: The silencing of the planet’s indigenous peoples
The Autumn issue of Index magazine focuses on the struggle for environmental justice by indigenous campaigners. Anticipating the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), in Glasgow, in November, we've chosen to give voice to people who are...
Index calls on governments to ensure encrypted tools are available to public
Index joined 52 other civil society organisations as well as private companies and security researchers in calling on governments to allow technology companies to offer strong encryption tools such as Signal or WhatsApp to the public.
Raid on ABC puts Australian press freedom at risk
Index on Censorship condemns the raid by Australian federal police on the offices of public broadcaster ABC over a 2017 article it ran in on operations of Australian special forces in Afghanistan.
Richard Neville, co-founder of Oz magazine, dies aged 74
Richard Neville, who co-founded the 1960s counterculture magazine Oz, has died. The satirical magazine poked fun at socially-conservative Austrailia and tackled taboo subjects
Combatting the Snowden Effect: National interest and media freedom in Australia
A piece of proposed legislation in the senate in Australia is attempting to wrestle with the legacy of the Snowden leaks with potential implications for media freedom. Nicholas Williams reports
Australia: Prime minister’s department cracks down on civil servant criticism
Under new guidelines, Australian civil servants working for the prime ministers’s office caught criticising the government can be sanctioned for illicit social media use, Helen Clark reports
Australia debates repeal of parts of racial discrimination act
Recent moves to repeal sections of Australia’s Racial Discrimination Act have sparked public debate and anger on both sides of the political divide, Helen Clark reports