Fuller’s Undisclosed Horse Dealings Jeopardise Racing NSW Role
It’s been a big couple of days for former NSW police commissioner Mick Fuller, as the Herald revealed on Tuesday that he was amongst a number of frontrunners to join the board of horseracing operator and regulator Racing NSW. The ex-top...
Anglican Alumni Oppose the Religious Bill: An Interview With Ex-SCEGGS Student James Kong
The half-decade-long religious freedoms debate came to a head last week, when the prime minister’s prejudicial project, the Religious Discrimination Bill, was shelved after it looked like religious schools would lose their power to expel students on the basis of gender...
“I’m Going to Be a Bulldozer”: Former NSW Magistrate Pat O’Shane Eyes Off Canberra
Pat O’Shane has long been a force to be reckoned with. And the former NSW Magistrate intends to take her trailblazing attitude into this nation’s seat of government with the aim of forging much-needed change in the areas of climate,...
NSW Liberals Squander Public Money Via Financial Mismanagement and Vote-Buying
Currying favour with taxpayer dollars was ultimately the undoing of former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian, and the other pollies that toppled with her. However, her treasurer at the time of the questionable dealings - Dom “does what I ask him...
World War Three, Anyone? Dutton, Beijing and the Ukraine Flashpoint
Right now, more than half of Russia’s armed forces are amassed along its border with Ukraine. The subject of weeks of speculation, Russian president Vladmir Putin denies he’s planning on invading the small country. However, western governments aren’t buying this assertion....
Australia’s Mounting Mass Surveillance Regime Must Be Reined In
“A creeping surveillance state”, “the world’s most secretive democracy”, “civil liberties in peril”: these types of phrases are increasingly being used to describe our nation in US headlines. The examples listed have all appeared whilst the Coalition government has been in power,...
Officer Allegedly Shot Restrained Warlpiri Teen Twice, Hears Historic Custody Murder Trial
After NT police constable Adam Eberl had restrained Warlpiri teen Kumanjayi Walker upon a mattress on the floor of his grandmother’s home in the remote Aboriginal town of Yuendumu, constable Zachary Rolfe allegedly walked across the room and shot him...
Liberties Council Maintains Ending Indefinite Detention Is a Moral and Legal Obligation
The Novak Djokovic fiasco exposed the Australian government’s practice of detaining “noncitizens” indefinitely to the globe. The sports star was placed in a hotel used as an immigration prison, where 25 of the 32 men inside are processed refugees, who’ve...
Sexual Violence Supports Need Strengthening, Say’s Full Stop Australia’s Hayley Foster
The Australian Bureau of Statistics released data last week outlining that police agencies had recorded 53,570 sexual assault offenders over the ten years ending in June 2020, which included a 13 percent increase in the number of male offenders. This was...
An Australian Criminal Cases Review Commission: An Interview With Former High Court Justice Michael Kirby
Michael Kirby has recently completed a chapter for a Canadian legal publication, in which the esteemed former High Court Justice outlines the need for more thorough safeguards against unjust convictions in this country. Within the chapter Miscarriages of Justice in...
