Independent Analysis and Reportage
Sextortion is a form of online blackmail where a perpetrator coerces or tricks a victim into sending intimate images. New research shows it’s on the rise.
Drawn from the words white and Asian, many use the term to celebrate shared experiences. But the label raises questions about valuing proximity to whiteness.
The only interventions capable of disrupting xenophobia are those that lower, or ideally eliminate, its political, economic and social benefits.
By Keiller MacDuff of RNZ Police have paid $10,000 to veteran activist John Minto after he was unlawfully arrested and pepper-sprayed at a pro-Palestinian protest in Christchurch in 2024. The Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA) last year found Minto’s arrest was unlawful and an officer used excessive and unjustified force. The payout follows negotiations between
Tens of thousands of people were arrested this year alone in Iran, and thousands are executed every year.
The Australian government has committed to an independent investigation into the assaults, sexual assaults and torture of the Gaza Flotilla humanitarians. Michael West Media reports. By Andrew Brown in Sydney This is the biggest story most Australians have not yet grasped. Australian survivors of physical, psychological and sexual abuse by Israeli authorities met with Foreign
By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific A human rights activist in Fiji is calling for the joint police-military taskforce on drugs to be disbanded, but the Fijian government says it does not support the call. It comes as the military revealed more than 60 witnesses have been spoken to in an investigation into the death
One woman said her husband and his friends told her that, in Australia, police strip-search women who complain about domestic violence.
She was a trusted mentor to young militants whose 1976 uprising shaped the country forever.
COMMENTARY: By Nuri Vitacchi The US on Wednesday night destroyed civilian water utilities serving 20,000 Iranian people. “The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression,” US Central Command said in a statement on X. The punishment was “in response to yesterday’s downing of a US Army Apache helicopter,” the US Centcom said. READ
Efforts to protect land and environmental resources, including fighting climate change, often end up displacing people who have lived in those places for generations.
The government says proposed move-on orders will tackle disorder. Critics argue they risk punishing homelessness while doing little to address its causes.