The Guardian • laws
Issue #2183
Protesting? Read this
When powerful organisations or groups harm Australians, states don’t do nothing. They rush through laws to clamp down on protests that might challenge those organisations....
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Issue #2019
It’s fine to protest, so long as you pay for it
Daniel Andrews’ Victorian Labor government has once again proven its deep commitment and thoughtful approach to environmental sustainability by pushing a bill through parliament that...
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Issue #2095
DINGO
In Nazi-occupied France in WW2 the collaborationist Vichy government changed the words on French coins from the revolutionary “Liberty, Fraternity, Equality” to a motto better...
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Issue #2139
Meet law-and-order Dutton
Peter Dutton is a Queensland cop. Whatever clothes or title he wears (Minister of Defence, Minister for Home Affairs, currently leader of the Coalition) he...
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Issue #2119
Good news for sexual harassment victims
The union movement has welcomed the Senate’s passage of the government’s Costs Protection Bill, which will make it easier for victim-survivors of workplace sexual harassment...
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Issue #2139
Victoria: law as a weapon
Victorian Comrades beware – over the last year, the bourgeois state government has proposed new reforms to its criminal law system which could have destructive...
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Issue #2189
No apology for oppressive Minns law
New South Wales premier Chris Minns’ blanket ban on street protests was struck down by the NSW Supreme Court on 16 April 2026. That ban...
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