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Paul Gregoire
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Freelance Writer/Journalist

2021 NSW Council of Civil Liberties Award Excellence In Civil Liberties Journalism

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Thorpe demands Albanese act on highest Aboriginal custody deaths on record, and she provides the PM with a clear blueprint on how, via the use of the external affairs power in the Constitution
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Thorpe Demands Albanese Intervene as Aboriginal Custody Deaths Higher Than Ever
The fact 2025 has seen the highest number of Aboriginal deaths in custody has led to calls for the Australian government to take action.
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December 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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The Trump administration has declared it will be monitoring those of "migration background" in allied nations, like Australia, which suggests the US wants to export its internal war on migrants here
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All Australians Should Be Concerned About the US Surveilling Our Migrant Population
Trump’s order that our government gather and provide data relating to migrant crime is yet another example of our imperialist master’s insatiable thirst for power and control.
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December 17, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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what could possibly go wrong?
December 17, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Antisemitic Mass Murder at Bondi Beach Robs Us All of Our Common Humanity

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Antisemitic Mass Murder at Bondi Beach Robs Us All of Our Common Humanity
Many consider the appalling Bondi Beach massacre as an attack on the local Jewish community as well as an attempt to cause division amongst the entire Australian nation.
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December 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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December 15, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Victoria Police can randomly search anyone without any ground for reasonable suspicion in the Melbourne CBD for the next six months, after law enforcement declared it a designated area under draconian new laws
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Victoria Police Can Now Randomly Search Anyone in the Melbourne CBD
Police declared the Melbourne CBD a designated area, giving themselves the power to search anyone without a warrant or reasonable suspicion for six months.
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December 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Googatha Elder Aunty Sue Haseldine on the Imposition of the Koonibba Test Range on Country and the threat of another Maralinga it poses
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Googatha Elder Aunty Sue Haseldine on the Imposition of the Koonibba Test Range on Country
Googatha elder Aunty Sue Haseldine is campaigning to stop rockets being launched and landed on Country, as the company running operations does not have the consent of all custodians.
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December 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Colombian ministers are proposing the nation's major coca derived product be sold in a legal and regulated global marketplace, because, as the president has made clear "cocaine is no worse than whiskey"
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Colombia Is Leading Progressive Drug Law Reform: Interview with Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann
NSW Greens MP Faehrmann attended an international drug law reform forum in Colombia this year and she found that nation to be miles ahead in terms of progressive reform ideas.
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December 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Palestinian organiser Tasnim Sammak outlines the importance of challenging the rising far right in Australia, to prevent it having the chance to form a cohesive force
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Preventing the “Fractured Far Right” from Gaining Traction: Palestinian Organiser Tasnim Sammak
Palestinian organiser Tasnim Sammak explains the importance of standing up against the growing white nationalist movement in Australia.
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December 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Critics warn snus & nicotine pouches could be “gateway” to smoking. But Nordic data challenge this claim. Gateway theory ⬆️use nicotine pouches should ➡️⬆️ smoking. But across Nordic countries, exact opposite occurred: as snus & pouch use ⬆️, smoking declined sharply

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New Nordic data blows up nicotine ‘gateway myth’ - Snusforumet
A fresh Nordic Council report shows that snus and nicotine pouches are not a gateway into smoking – they are a gateway out.
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December 10, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Thousands of protesters turned out on Gadigal land in Sydney to oppose the Gaza genocide, as despite an official ceasefire, Israel's genocidal practices continue on regardless👇
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The Crime of Genocide Is Continuing in Gaza Despite the Ceasefire
Palestine Action Group gathered in Hyde Park on Sunday to make clear the genocide in Gaza continues despite false claims by some parts of the media that it has subsided.
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December 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Despite the internal NT police investigation having progressed, the family of Warlpiri man Kumanjayi Walker, who died in police custody, 6 months ago have been told nothing - treated, they say, "like flora and fauna"
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Authorities Continue in Refusal to Disclose Circumstances Surrounding First Nations Death
Two plainclothes police officers restrained Kumanjayi White to death in Coles Alice Springs in May 2025, and his family has been kept in the dark about the investigation ever since.
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December 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Trump has carried out dozens of extrajudicial killings of likely fishermen in the Caribbean, on a drug war pretext, with the ultimate goal being securing Venezuelan oil

Shoot to kill and double tap strikes are the order of the day
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Trump and Hegseth Have Been Mass Murdering Foreign Nationals in the Caribbean
The Trump administration has extrajudicially killed 80-odd foreign nationals off the coast of Venezuela and recent revelations make the scenarios a lot more sinister.
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December 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Senator Shoebridge drilled Antisemitism Envoy Segal about having ignored a police-approved neo-Nazi demonstration outside NSW parliament, whilst she's been proactively decrying pro-Palestinian protesters on an ongoing basis
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Shoebridge Calls out the Antisemitism Envoy for Disregarding Nazis and Demonising Palestinians
Senator David Shoebridge questioned the antisemitism envoy about why she has ignored neo-Nazi demonstrations while condemning those protesting the genocide in Gaza.
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December 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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New social justice grouping Watch the Cops has sprung up following the police brutality involved at the Indo Pacific weapons fest, with its first protest taking place at Sydney's Downing Centre next week
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“Opposing the Current State of Policing”: Watch the Cops to Rally Before the Downing Centre
The unchecked use of heavy-handed tactics by NSW police officers against non-violent protesters has contributed to organisers planning the latest protest against police brutality and overreach.
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December 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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The likely first ever Australian police officer was convicted in relation to an Aboriginal death in custody last Friday... revealing slow coming police accountability
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First Ever Conviction of an Australian Police Officer Over Aboriginal Death in Custody
The police officer who killed Dunghutti teen Jai Walker when driving his car into the trail bike the boy was riding, has been convicted on dangerous driving causing death.
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December 3, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Ben Pennings has emerged victorious after Indian mining magnate Gautam Adani attempted to take him to the cleaners in the local courts

In the end, the campaigning of Pennings and others resulted in a much smaller Adani mine
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Pennings Reigns Victorious Over Adanis’ Five-Year “Attack Dog” Legal Pursuit
Environmental activist Ben Pennings has come out victorious after Indian business tycoon Gautam Adani dragged him across hot coals in the courts for five years.
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December 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Penington Institute 100% right: “Prohibiting personal use #cannabis continues absorb billions in enforcement but fails to ⬇️ cannabis use, instead funnelling everyday Australians into criminal justice system. Illicit cannabis market remains profitable & entrenched #auspol @paulrgregoire.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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The overtly white supremacist Trump White House has ordered the US embassy in Australia to start monitoring the crimes of people of "migration background" in this country, with the aim of 'protecting Western civilization'
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Trump Administration to Monitor Crimes by Migrants in Australia
The ever-growing worldwide campaign of blaming migrants for society’s problems continues, with the US announcing it will monitor crimes committed by migrants living in Australia.
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November 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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The ongoing court outcomes in respect of suspects involved in the "antisemitism crimewave" over the 2024-25 summer show that ultimately all criminal perpetrators and orchestrators held no ideological basis for their crimes
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The Great “Antisemitism Crimewave” Was Not Motivated by Prejudice Towards Jews
The courts continue to dispel the politically motivated myth that the supposed 2024-25 “antisemitic crimewave” was motivated by prejudice towards Jewish people.
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November 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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A NSW police officer has been found guilty of the 2022 death in custody of Dunghutti teenager Jai Wright

The charge is dangerous driving occasioning death

This is the first time a cop has been found guilty in respect of an Aboriginal death in custody

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Breaking: NSW Police officer guilty over Indigenous teen's death in custody
Benedict Bryant had pleaded not guilty to dangerous driving occasioning death over the crash in inner Sydney in February 2022, which killed Jai Wright.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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That the Wunna Nyiyaparli had been shafted out of their native title rights in the eastern Pilbara by the courts was understood, but now it appears the documents underpinning this were already void
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The Wunna Nyiyaparli Have Been Stripped of Roy Hill Native Title Rights Based on Void Documents
Mining magnate Gina Rinehart’s company used illegitimate and unregistered documents to secure exploration rights and ensure traditional rights holders are denied access to their lands.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Climate defenders Violet CoCo and Brad Homewood outline that in defending the planet, a massive blind spot that many ardent activists overlook is that animal agriculture is one of the main issues driving the heating planet
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The elephant in the room - Green Agenda
We’ve passed 7 of 9 planetary boundaries and forests are vanishing, yet the climate movement refuses to name the number one driver of deforestation. It’s top five corporations surpassing Chevron, Shel...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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The lawyers, academics and pollies gathered at Sydney Uni all agreed there's a grave need to decriminalise or legalise cannabis to remove the main harms associated, which are criminal justice-related
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Ending Global Cannabis Prohibition Is Inevitable, According to Sydney Uni Symposium
The participants at a cannabis symposium on Australian law and UN drug conventions were chiefly concerned with heavy-handed drug policing and related racial disparities.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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The Police Association went on A Current Affair to argue against consequences for punching women in the face.
November 21, 2025 at 5:57 AM