Doli Incapax: The Presumption that Kids Between 10 and 14 Cannot Form Criminal Intent
A 15-year-old boy made a complaint to New South Wales police about his older brother twice having had sexual intercourse with him, whilst he was roughly 6 years and 9 months old, which made his brother then 11 years and...
Confirming It’s Legal to Speak About the Right Occupied Peoples Have to Armed Resistance
Krautungalung elder Uncle Robbie Thorpe and Sydney-based lawyer Daniel Taylor have teamed up again on a legal action, this time concerning the legal right to speak about the implications that international law has in regard to Israel’s occupation of the...
A Rise in Nitazene Overdoses Requires Fixed Site Pill Testing and Take-Home Naloxone
The Australian Federal Police issued a warning on Wednesday about the worrying trend in a relatively new type of street drug, a group of synthetic opioids known as nitazenes, being increasingly detected at the border, as well as being available...
Liberties Council Has the NSW Public’s Back on the Antisemitism Law-and-Order Smokescreen
The NSW Council for Civil Liberties has raised its concerns that antisemitism has been and continues to be weaponised by politicians and the media alike, via “the incorrect and harmful conflation of Zionism and Judaism”. Zionism, the NSWCCL confirms, is...
NSW Police Stop Using Ineffective and Racially Biased Facial Recognition Identification System
New South Wales police minister Yasmin Catley revealed on 8 April 2025 that the New South Wales Police Force recently ended its use of the PhotoTrac Suspect Identification System, which involved facial recognition software produced by German company Cognitec, and...
Will Australia’s Chief Lawmaker Finally Introduce Effective Whistleblower Protections?
Commonwealth attorney general Mark Dreyfus traipsed back into office at the 2025 federal election, as he took two-thirds of the vote in the seat of Issacs, which is the electorate that he’s held since 2007. The big question many are...
The Freedom Flotilla Ship’s Mission to Deliver Aid Continues, Despite Drone Attacks
The Conscience, a ship belonging to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, was anchored in international waters off the coast of Malta just after midnight on 2 May 2025, as it was awaiting civilian volunteers from 21 countries to join the crew...
The Return of Albanese in Majority Signals Further Relinquishing Control to the US
The resounding rejection of the Liberal Nationals at last Saturday’s federal election saved the nation from a potential authoritarian power grab at the hands of former Liberal leader Peter Dutton, which is a fate that’s been averted moving into the...
Trump Is Invoking a New Era of Western Colonialism Inspired by Netanyahu
Regardless of which way the votes are cast this weekend, the resulting 48th Australian parliament is not likely to alter our strong ties to the US, and especially our military ones, which means we’ll remain a vassal of a superpower...
Australia’s Arms Exports System Is a Loose Free-for-All: Interview with Renegade Activists Jacob & Mercedes
Australian arms exports became a front and centre issue in October 2023, on outbreak of the Gaza genocide, and regardless of the fact that former Palestine stalwarts PM Anthony Albanese and foreign minister Penny Wong were reimaging the mass murder...
