Victoria Passes Tough Sexual Assault Laws
By Matthew Drogemuller Australia was horrified when 31-year-old Sean Price murdered 17-year-old Masa Vukotic as she was walking near her Doncaster home last year. Grief turned to anger when the public was informed that Price was out on bail at the...
Justice System Fails Women
By Blake O’Connor and Ugur Nedim New figures show that more women are being locked up in Australian prisons than ever before, and research suggests the system is failing to protect female inmates from abuse. We have previously written about...
Our Lethal Love Affair with Alcohol
Alexander Muir jumped off the Story Bridge not long after his 21st Birthday. His shirt, thongs, wallet and phone were found on the footpath. His body was recovered from the Brisbane River below. The Coroner’s report found that he’d drowned,...
Sexual Assault Victim Re-Victimised by Criminal Justice System
In January 2015, former Stanford University swimming champion Brock Turner, aged 20, sexually assaulted a 22-year-old woman behind a garbage bin after a fraternity party. He was found guilty of three counts of sexual assault and faced a maximum penalty...
Electronic Frontiers Australia: An Exclusive Interview with Jon Lawrence
Since its establishment, Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) has been one of the more influential, if not obscure, lobby groups in Australia. Founded in 1994, it’s been leading the burgeoning movement to secure what we now call “digital rights”, campaigning for...
Police May Press Charges After Child Falls into Gorilla Enclosure
It’s the story that gripped the globe this week, and now US police have launched a criminal investigation into an incident at Cincinnati Zoo, which prompted zoo keepers to kill prized gorilla Harambe, after a young child climbed over a...
Police Commissioner Related to Officer who ‘Washed the Blood Away’
For four years, former police Sergeant Rick Flori has been fighting allegations that he engaged in ‘misconduct in public office’ - a criminal offence which carries a maximum penalty of seven years imprisonment – by leaking CCTV footage of four...
Honest Cop Fights On
Former Police Sergeant Rick Flori has been fighting to clear his name for more than four years. A Southport Magistrate has now ordered that his fight will continue – in a committal hearing late last week, Magistrate Michael Hogan ruled...
RIP Presumption of Innocence: Bail Laws Getting Tougher Nationwide
We have written extensively about our state’s tough new bail laws, which have seen the NSW prison population skyrocket, causing overcrowding and associated problems. NSW is not the only state to get tough on bail – similar trends are being...
5 Tips to Avoid Identity Theft
The number of online scams affecting Australians has skyrocketed in recent years, with over a million Australians now having their identity stolen every year at a cost of nearly $1 billion. The consequences for victims can be significant and long-lasting,...
