The Horror Unfolding in India Exposes the Privilege of Pandemic Conspiracies
The images emerging out of India depicting mass funeral pyre sites, human corpses piled up outside crematoriums and bodies wrapped in bags scattered across city streets show that the heightened devastation COVID-19 has always threatened is now revealing itself. The...
NSW Police Minister’s Latest Blunder Exemplifies Why He is Unfit for the Job
Mainstream media sirens were going off last week as the Murdoch press and television morning breakfast shows were alerted to posters made by primary school students displaying Black Lives Matter messaging that were hanging on the walls of a progressive...
The New Mental Health Regime in the NSW Criminal Courts
The Mental Health and Cognitive Impairment Forensic Provisions Act 2020 (NSW) (the New Act) came into effect on the 27 March 2021. Passed last June, the New Act replaces the Mental Health (Forensic Provisions) Act 1990 (NSW) (the Old Act)...
The Gate Swings Back on Youth Offenders as Northern Jurisdictions Toughen Laws
The mid-2016 revelations relating to the abuse and torture of incarcerated minors in the Northern Territory’s Don Dale Youth Detention Centre not only led to widespread condemnation, but they sparked calls for national reform in relation to the imprisonment of...
Justice Goes Unserved for David Dungay, as George Floyd’s Killer Is Convicted
Then Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on the neck of African American man George Floyd for 9 minutes and 29 seconds until he stopped breathing on 25 May last year. Captured on footage, the killing sparked Black Lives Matter...
“The Beginning of the End of Drug Prohibition”: An Interview With Drug Policy Australia’s Greg Chipp
Pill testing has been implemented in certain European nations since the early 1990s. This harm reduction strategy developed out of the burgeoning rave culture alongside the emergence of new forms of electronic music and a taste for party drugs. Thirty...
Protesting Latham’s Trans Prejudice in Parliament: An Interview With CARR’s April
“How dare you sit there and try to see the rolling back of our rights… trying to attack the most vulnerable people in our society, transgender young people, who have already got it tough enough,” April called out to NSW...
Morrison Distinguishes Himself as the Globe’s Chief Climate Outcast
MIT Professor Noam Chomsky suggested to Sydney Criminal Lawyers in March last year that Scott Morrison was, at that stage, one of the globe’s top three climate criminals. Just last week, however, the Hawaii 5-0 prime minister skyrocketed himself to this...
Lest We Forget, That Wars Are the Product of Lies
“In democracies, or the pseudo-democracies that we are evolving into, wars are a result of lies,” Julian Assange told anti-war protesters in London’s Trafalgar Square in October 2011. “The Vietnam War and the push for US involvement was the result...
Legal Watchdog Cancels Outspoken Anti-Lockdown Lawyer’s Practising Certificate
Solicitor Serene Teffaha has been fighting against the government’s removal of civil liberties under the guise of COVID for some time, recently filing a class action lawsuit against Melbourne’s controversial public housing lockdown in an effort to stand up for...
