Homeless Lives Matter: Governments Must Focus on Charity at Home
A homeless man has been charged with bashing 27-year-old homeless woman Courtney Herron to death in a Melbourne Park over the weekend. Ms Heron, who suffered a mental illness and problems with drugs, had been sleeping rough and couch surfing....
40 Year Prison Sentence for Australia’s ‘Worst Paedophile’
Ruecha Tokputza has been described in court as “Australia’s worst paedophile”, and has been sentenced to 40 years imprisonment after pleading guilty to 50 charges including having sexual intercourse with a child under the age of 14, engaging in sexual...
Should It be a Crime to Publish Fake News?
Integrity campaigners have labelled the spread of disinformation during the recent Federal Election campaign as ‘intolerable’, and are calling for criminal laws specifically designed to deter such conduct in the future. One campaigner, former NSW supreme court justice Anthony Whealy,...
Sexual Harassment Rife Within the Legal Profession
It’s a well-publicised fact that sexual harassment is prevalent in the legal profession, and now a new survey suggests that Australia has one of the highest rates of bullying and harassment amongst law professionals in the world. Australia provided the...
Banker Sent to Prison for Fraud
The former banker who defrauded the NAB for $640,000 over a period of four years by exploiting its ‘introducer’ scheme has been sentenced to eight months behind bars. In 2015 Andrew Matthews was celebrated by the bank for his work...
Teacher Who Sexually Abused Student Wins Appeal
42-year old Adelaide teacher, Sonia Mackay, has walked free after successfully appealing her sentence of imprisonment for sexually abusing a student. Last year, Ms Mackay pleaded guilty to persistent sexual abuse of a child, which is an offence under section...
Man Who Mowed Down Emus Sent to Prison
A farmhand in Victoria has been sentenced to time in prison for running down a herd of emus with his ute, filming it, and posting it to Facebook. You probably saw the distressing video footage which went viral in September...
Renewed Calls for the Decriminalisation of Minor Offences
The Queensland Productivity Commission (QPC) has heard that the increasing number of people criminalised as a result of poverty and abuse is one of the most significant problems facing the State’s prison system. The QPC was tasked last year with...
Family of Australian Woman Shot Dead by Police to Receive Record Payout
The family of Australian woman Justine Damond Ruszczyk, who was shot and killed by a police officer, has been awarded $US20 million, about $AUD28 million, in a civil settlement with the City of Minneapolis. The settlement comes just days after...
Woman Charged with Blackmailing Grieving Parents
It’s entirely possible that you saw and perhaps even shared the desperate pleas on social media from couple Jay and Dee Windross calling for help to find a lost mobile phone that held photos of their dying baby girl. The...
