Radicals: Remembering the Sixties is a kaleidoscopic look at a formative decade
Meredith Burgmann and Nadia Wheatley show us that we must learn about the past in order to change the world today.
From the very first page of
Radicals: Remembering the Sixties which situates readers in an atmospheric description of the Black Lives Matter protest held at Town Hall in June last year Meredith Burgmann and Nadia Wheatley underpin their kaleidoscopic vision of the Sixties with a continual awareness of how the struggles of the past are both connected to, and vastly different from, the present.
The book immerses readers in the radical political and counter-cultural spirit of the Sixties, pulling together Meredith and Nadia’s own stories with interviews of 18 figures, each with their own chapter, many of whom encountered radical ideas at the University of Sydney and its surroundings. While the stories have common anchor-points notably, opposition to Australia’s military involvemen
Police officer charged with alleged assault of Indigenous teen
By Natasha Taylor|05 May 2021
Following the arrest of an Indigenous teenager in June last year, Aboriginal Legal Services has welcomed charges brought against a serving NSW Police officer.
Earlier this week, the Aboriginal Legal Service NSW/ACT (ALS) announced the charges brought against a serving NSW Police officer for common assault and assault occasioning actual bodily harm of a boy in Surry Hills, Ward Park last year.
Video footage of the boy’s arrest went viral at the time, coinciding with Black Lives Matter protests worldwide following the murder of George Floyd by a US police officer.
NSW police charged with assault
The Guardian
The family of an indigenous teenager who was allegedly assaulted by a police officer in Sydney last year have welcomed the decision to lay charges, saying they want the law to be “applied with fairness and justice.”
Police yesterday confirmed that an officer had been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm and common assault, 11 months after footage surfaced of him allegedly tripping a 16-year-old indigenous teenager while arresting him, slamming the boy face-first on to bricks.
The officer involved, a constable who has worked for New South Wales (NSW) police for three years, was placed on restricted duties in June last year after police professional standards launched an investigation into the incident.
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