NSW Police Strip Search Toddler
A 16-month old baby and his 17-year old aunt are taking civil proceedings against the New South Wales Government after police allegedly unlawfully strip searched them last year on a visit to see the toddler’s father in a correctional centre....
Police Are Now Arresting Our Elderly for Protesting
In recent years, both our federal government and state and territory governments have passed sweeping laws to ensure those who speak against them or protest about their activities are silenced and criminalised. These laws come in many forms, imposing lengthy...
Bring Jock Palfreeman Home
Sydney man Jock Palfreeman should be on his way home to Australia, instead he will remain in a Bulgarian immigration detention for at least another two months, awaiting a legal decision on his fate. Parole granted and then suspended Jock...
CBA Faces Criminal Charges for ‘Hawking’
The Commonwealth Bank is facing 87 criminal charges relating to the sale of life insurance policies through its insurance arm, CommInsure. The charges relate to practices and sale techniques used in 2014, and the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC)...
Why is White Ribbon Australia Shutting Its Doors?
With our nation in the grips of a domestic violence epidemic and the world still reeling from hundreds of thousands of allegations on the back of the global #MeToo movement, it’s difficult to fathom that White Ribbon Australia is shutting...
Sydney Criminal Solicitor Charged with Accessory to Murder
A criminal lawyer has been arrested and charged in relation to the murder of Craig Anderson, who was shot and killed at Doonside in Western Sydney earlier this year. The lawyer, Ms Alev Oncu, has been charged with accessory after...
Teen Charged with Cruelty to Kangaroos
A 19-year old man has been charged with animal cruelty after killing 19 Kangaroos in Tura Beach, on the New South Wales southern coast. It is alleged the man went on a killing spree over the weekend, spotlighting the animals...
Jock Palfreeman: Freedom So Close, Yet So Far
Sydney man Jock Palfreeman remains locked in an immigration detention centre in Bulgaria, awaiting a decision on whether he will be sent back to prison, or home to Australia as a free man. In the latest development in the bid...
Abortion Decriminalised in New South Wales
New South Wales has finally decriminalised abortion, more than a century after it was included in the state’s criminal code, and well after most of the other jurisdictions around the country have already done so. But the passing of the...
Catholic Church Forced to Pay Victim of Child Sexual Abuse
A man who was sexually assaulted as a child by notorious paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale will receive up to $3 million in a landmark legal settlement with the Catholic Church. The financial settlement is the in which the church has...
