Australia censored speakers in a cybersecurity conference — banning two whistleblowers from speaking there, and trying to stop someone else from showing how Australia's encryption law was similar to China's.

Australian Extinction Rebellion protesters are being given bail with a requirement not to associate in any way with other members of the group.

The state wants them to go home and act neutral. Whatever they do, it must not be that. It is better to reject bail and be jailed.

Parts of Australia are facing a deep drought.

Strange that even writers who are preoccupied with ghosts of previous, lesser droughts ignore the ghost of global heating.

In LA, a white driver is more likely to carry illegal drugs than a black driver, but the black driver is much more likely to be searched arbitrarily than the white driver.

Even if there were not a hint of bias in these searches, they would still be an injustice.

Sleep deprivation and a freezing cell: a Palestinian woman is interrogated by Israel.

It would be no less wrong to treat a man the same way. However, the fact that this prisoner is a journalist does make the wrong worse.