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Policing and Detention / NSW Police Targeting First Nations Kids With System Of ‘Pro-Active’ Monitoring

Lead solicitor for the Police Accountability Team at the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), Grace Gooley told Junkee that the...

4 Jul 2022

Policing and Detention / NSW police accused of ‘oppressive’ tactics against subjects on secretive blacklist

“We’ve known for decades that exposing children to repeated, invasive interactions with police is harmful,” PIAC’s principal solicitor Camilla Pandolfini...

4 Jul 2022

Energy + Water / Does Australia need Tasmania to become a multi-billion-dollar 'Battery of the Nation'?

Public Interest Advocacy Centre senior energy advisor Craig Memery said the Tasmanian Battery of the Nation project was a sounder investment...

28 Jun 2022

Energy + Water / AUDIO: Calls for energy businesses to operate in good faith

ABC NewsRadio’s Thomas Oriti spoke to senior energy advisor with the Public Interest Advocacy Centre, Craig Memery.

23 Jun 2022

Energy + Water / ‘The prices are so much more’: how apartment dwellers get locked into bad power deals

Program director Douglas McCloskey said the structural disadvantages people living in embedded networks faced would hit “particularly hard” if energy...

19 Jun 2022

Energy + Water / AEMO flags level three ‘lack of reserve’ notice across SA, VIC, NSW and Tasmania

Profiteering and bad behaviour would need to be reviewed in the wake of the energy crunch, according to the Public...

15 Jun 2022

Energy + Water / Power companies accused of engineering crisis for profit

Multibillion-dollar power companies are being accused by regulators of driving the power shortages striking the nation in order to receive...

14 Jun 2022

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Justice / Facing the Truth about Indigenous Australians

The most comprehensive truth-telling project in Australian history is documenting every law and policy that has targeted or had a...

18 May 2022

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Justice / Law faces the truth on Indigenous impact

Towards Truth’s project co-ordinator is 30-year-old lawyer Corey Smith, a Ngemba man whose work on the database helped him understand...

18 May 2022

Energy + Water / Rising electricity prices pushing households to the wall

Struggling Australian households forced to go without essential items such as food and child care to pay rising electricity bills.

2 May 2022

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