Justice Ride - Day 4

The 8th of June, 2026 - Day 4 of Eileen and Marion Murray’s ‘Justice Ride’ across northern New South Wales. The Murray sisters’ aim is to bring attention to the ongoing epidemic of Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in ‘Australia’ and to demand justice for their brother, Eddie Murray, who they say was murdered by police in the small cotton farming town of Wee Waa in 1981.

On the fourth day, The Justice Ride stopped off at Walgett, where a banner was again displayed in front of the local police station there.

Walgett, on Gomeroi country, was a town also visited by the 1965 Freedom Ride, led by Charlie Perkins, and where there is now a park commemorating these historic events. Back in ‘65, the Walgett RSL was infamous for barring Aboriginal people from entry, including Black Diggers who had fought in Australia’s foreign wars, such as WWII. Perkins and the other Freedom Riders held a protest outside the Walgett RSL during their visit and were jeered at and spat on by local patrons entering the club.

This evening, Eileen and Marion Murray spoke with Leonie Mason at the Walgett RSL. Leonie Mason is the sister of Mark Mason Senior, who, in 2010, was capsicum sprayed, tasered and eventually shot dead by police in his Collarenebri home. A police investigation cleared all the officers involved of any fault or charges. Mark Mason Senior’s family are still fighting for justice.

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Justice Ride - Day 3

The 7th of June, 2026 - Day 3 of Eileen and Marion Murray’s ‘Justice Ride’ across northern New South Wales. The Murray sisters’ aim is to bring attention to the ongoing epidemic of Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in ‘Australia’ and to demand justice for their brother, Eddie Murray, who they say was murdered by police in the small cotton farming town of Wee Waa in 1981

The third day of The Justice Ride saw a visit to Brewarrina where Eileen and Marion met with Warwick Clarke and Tina Murray, the parents of Kallan Murray, who was killed during a police pursuit in Bourke in 2024. Seventeen-year old Kallan and three other teenagers were in a stolen car that came off the road after police chased them across northern NSW and through Bourke. But Warwick and Tina say that the police reports of the incident don’t add up and that foul play was at work.

In Bourke, the Justice Riders and the family visited the scene where Kallan died. Wreckage of the crashed car still sits strewn across the ground, 16 months later, next to a memorial built by family.

A banner was then unfurled in front of Bourke police station and then later that day, in front of the Brewarrina police station.

The court case into Kallan's death has been delayed several times already but is expected to be heard later this year. The family are holding out for a proper independent investigation and for answers to their questions about what really happened on the day that they lost their son.

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Justice Ride - Day 2

The 6th of June, 2026 - Day 2 of Eileen and Marion Murray’s ‘Justice Ride’ across northern New South Wales. The Murray sisters’ aim is to bring attention to the ongoing epidemic of Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in ‘Australia’ and to demand justice for their brother, Eddie Murray, who they say was murdered by police in the small cotton farming town of Wee Waa in 1981.

The second day of The Justice Ride saw visits to Moree and Collarenebri on Gomeroi Land, where a banner was unfurled in front of the respective police stations there. The banner’s design is based on a similar banner carried by Eileen and Marion’s parents, Arthur and Leila Murray, during their decades long struggle to reveal the truth of their son Eddie’s death.

The week-long Justice Ride will culminate in a vigil in Wee Waa on Friday the 12th of June.

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Justice Ride - Day 1

Last Friday, June 5th, 2026, Eileen and Marion Murray, sisters of Eddie Murray, set off from Redfern, Sydney on a ‘Justice Ride’ around northern NSW to meet up with families and bring attention the ongoing spate of Aboriginal people who have been killed in custody.

Eddie Murray was a Gomeroi man and promising rugby league star, who was found hanged in his cell in 1981 under suspicious circumstances, after being picked up by local police outside a public hotel in Wee Waa. After a string of internal investigations, no police were ever been held accountable for Eddie’s death, despite the family’s claims that he was murdered.

Eddie Murray’s death was the catalyst for the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths In Custody in 1987. The Commission’s report was handed down in 1991. Thirty-five years later, almost all of its recommendations have still not been implemented. Last year, Australia recorded its highest number of Aboriginal deaths in custody since 1979.

Inspired by the Freedom Rides of 1965, the Murray sisters’ Justice Ride will run for a week and stop off at Moree, Collarenebri, Brewarrina, Bourke, Walgett, Lightning Ridge, Narrabri and end up with a vigil in Wee Waa, the site of Eddie Murray’s death.

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A Night At The Waterloo Camp with Judy Mundey and Wendy Bacon

Photographs of tonight’s talk by long-time activist, Judy Mundey and journalist, Wendy Bacon at the Save Waterloo encampment, a protest site set up to prevent the first stage of demolition of Australia’s largest public housing complex, the Waterloo estate.

Discussions centred around the history of Sydney’s fight for equitable housing, including the Green Bans in Potts Point, which was led by Judy’s husband, Jack Mundey, in the 1970s.

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Save Waterloo Rally

Photographs from today’s ‘Save Waterloo’ rally demanding the halt to the demolition of public housing in Waterloo in Sydney’s inner city on Gadigal Country.

The rally began at Waterloo Green (T.J. Hickey Park) where speeches were made, before marching to the encampment which has been set up as a protest site.

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Save Waterloo Encampment

Six days ago, a protest camp was set up to blockade the first tranche of the demolition of public housing at the Waterloo estates. Over 150 homes are set to be demolished, some with tenants still living in the ear-marked buildings.

The NSW government is planning on replacing the public housing exclusively with privately owned properties. While some will be privately-owned ‘social housing', most will be in direct private hands and none will be built as public housing. The Waterloo estates are one of the largest in the Southern Hemisphere, and house many Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and migrant communities.

The Housing Minister, Rose Jackson, has labelled communities such as those in Waterloo, as “not functional”.

Meanwhile, the Grattan Institute has identified Sydney as “ground zero for Australia’s housing crisis”.

The camp was set up by a coalition of public housing advocates, including Action For Public Housing, who are calling for the houses in Waterloo to be renovated, rather than demolished.

A rally is planned for tomorrow.

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Australian Contingent of the Global Sumud Flotilla Returns Home

Yesterday, seven Australian activists returned home to Sydney International Airport on Dhurrawal Country, after being abducted by Israeli forces while trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, as part of the Global Sumud Flotilla. Israel is currently enforcing an illegal maritime blockade, which is exacerbating the widespread starvation, humanitarian crisis and genocide that is still unfolding across the Gaza Strip.

In emotional scenes, more than 100 family, friends and supporters welcomed the arrival of the activists. The activists then held a press conference to a waiting media pack, detailing beatings, sexual assaults and humiliation by the Israeli military.

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Al Nakba Rally

On Friday evening, several thousand people turned up at Sydney Town Hall, Gadigal Land, for the annual Al Nakba rally.

Al Nakba (‘The Catastrophe’) is the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their homelands by Israeli forces, culminating in the founding of the Israeli State in 1948. This year marks the 78th anniversary of that date.

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Vigil For Kumanjayi Little Baby

Last night, several hundred people turned up to Sydney Town Hall Square, on Gadigal Country, to hold a vigil for five-year old Warlpiri girl, Kumanjayi Little Baby, whose body was found in bush land last week in Mparntwe, Alice Springs, Arrente Country, two weeks after going missing from her home.

The vigil was one of many held around ‘Australia’ last night.

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Paddle Out For Sumud

Yesterday, Rising Tide held a paddle out across Sydney Harbour, from Milson’s Park, Cammeraygal Land, to the Sydney Opera House on Gadigal Land, to bring attention to the Global Sumud Flotilla, a fleet of boats which is currently heading across the Mediterranean Sea to deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid through the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza.

The Israeli navy has already intercepted several boats from the flotilla, arresting and detaining crew, including Australians, Zack Scholfield, Ethan Floyd and Neve O’Connor. Accusations of torture against Israeli forces have been made by the detainees. While the Australians have been released, others have been taken to Israel for interrogation. The remainder of the fleet is still on course for Gaza.

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Free The Flotilla - Snap Rally

Around 200 people held a snap rally on Thursday evening at Sydney Town Hall, on Gadigal Land, to protest against the seizure of a boat in international waters that was transporting humanitarian aid through Israel’s illegal maritime blockade of Gaza.

The boat was part of the Global Sumud Flotilla and was crewed by Australians, including Zach Schofield and Wiradjuri activist, Ethan Floyd. Schofield’s father spoke at Thursday’s rally.

After two days of captivity, Israel has just announced that it has released the crew in the Greek Island of Crete.

In the meantime, the remaining fleet of the Global Sumud Flotilla continues to sail towards Gaza, as Israel’s navy intercepts the boats one by one. Over 200 people have so far been detained, with several taken to Israel for interrogation.

Thursday night’s rally marched to the offices of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on Pitt Street and was organised by Students for Palestine, the Palestine Action Group Sydney and the Coalition of Women for Justice and Peace.

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Defend Iran Rally

Last Monday, 27.04.2026, a ‘Defend Iran’ rally was held in Auburn, on Dharug Land, Sydney, ‘Australia’, to protest against the ongoing war on Iran, Lebanon and Palestine by U.S. and Israeli forces.

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Hands Off Lebanon Rally

Ray Minnicon, ANZAC Day 2023

A portrait of Uncle Ray Minniecon at the 2023 Coloured Diggers’ March, Redfern.

At this morning’s ANZAC Day Dawn Service at Martin Place, Uncle Ray was shamefully booed by racists during his Acknowledgement of Country.

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Appin Massacre Memorial

Last Sunday, the 17th of April, a memorial was held to mark the 210th anniversary of the Appin Massacre, where at least 14 Dharawal men, women and children were shot and herded off a cliff by British troops, on the command of Governor Macquarie, in 1816. Macquarie ordered his troops "to inflict exemplary and severe punishment on the mountain tribes...to strike them with terror...clearing the country of them entirely", further instructing that the corpses be hung up on trees as a warning to other Dharawal resisting the invasion.

The massacre was only one of hundreds of other massacres perpetrated across the continent as part of the British genocide against Aboriginal peoples.

Around 150 people, including descendants of both the Dharawal victims and British perpetrators, attended Sunday’s memorial, held at Cataract Dam just outside of Appin and organised by the Winga Myamly Reconciliation Group.

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Drop The Herzog Protest Charges - Rally

This morning, activist group, Stop The War On Palestine, organised a rally on the steps of the Downing Centre Local Court, Sydney, Gadigal Land, where mentions were made of cases brought against protesters who were arrested during the police violence that broke out during the demonstration against the visit of Israel’s President, Isaac Herzog, earlier this year, on the 9th of February, 2026. On that night, protesters were beaten and pepper-sprayed, while a peaceful Muslim prayer was set upon by police. Twenty-seven people were arrested while others have had charges pressed against them, post-facto, in police raids, since.

The police violence occurred after the NSW Minns Labor Government introduced repressive legislation increasing police powers and outlawing protests under certain conditions. These laws were this week found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of NSW. Premier, Chris Minns, has doubled down on his crusade for tougher laws against protests, while the police continue to conduct arrests relating to the night of the 9th of February.

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Palestinian Prisoners' Day

Photographs from last Friday’s protest marking Palestinian Prisoners’ Day in Newtown on Gadigal and Wangal Lands in Sydney’s inner west, commemorating the incarceration of nearly 10,000 Palestinian men, women and children currently held in Israeli prison camps.

Every year on April 17th, Palestinian Prisoner’s Day is held on the date that Mahmoud Bakr Hejazi was released in the first prisoner exchange between Israel and Palestine in 1971.

This year is especially significant as calls grow louder for the repeal of Israel’s new execution laws which specifically target Palestinians.

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Rally Against Santos Gas Projects

While mining giant, Santos, held its Annual General Meeting today in Adelaide, activist group, The Knitting Nannas held a small rally in Martin Place, Sydney, Gadigal Land, to protest against the company’s gas fracking projects across the country, including in the Pillaga Forest on Gomeroi country, near Narrabri in northern NSW and the associated pipeline that runs through the Hunter Valley.

Communities are concerned about the environmental, health and cultural damage these projects will cause.

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Candlelight Vigil For Lebanon