Practical Tips for Protecting Your Privacy
Sydney’s Leichhardt Council recently made history after voting to become the first local government in the world to ban the use of metadata in their investigations. The use and collection of private individual’s metadata, the information that describes their phone...
11-Year Old Makes Burglar ‘Cry Like a Baby’
11-year old Chris Gaither was just hanging around at home with his dogs, when he heard a strange noise coming from upstairs. The quick thinking boy grabbed a knife and went to investigate, only to see an armed intruder coming...
Government Criticised for Failing to Act over Panama Papers
Investigations by the Australian Tax Office (ATO) suggest that tax evasion strategies employed by now-infamous law firm Mossack Fonseca have indeed been used to conceal and aid serious criminal conduct by Australians. The head of the ATO, Chris Jordan, says...
Report Finds VLAD Laws to be Unfairly Oppressive
The Queensland government has been advised to dilute the state’s excessively oppressive ‘anti-bikie’ laws, so they resemble the less-restrictive NSW regime. Following an independent report by Justice Alan Wilson, Queensland Premier Anastacia Palaszczuk said she would consider recommendations to repeal...
Owning a Gun in Australia: Knee-Jerk Political Reactions
It might be hard to imagine now, but there was once a time when guns were accepted as an important part of the Australian identity, especially in rural areas. But times have changed, and our gun laws came in the...
Uncertain Future for Manus Island Asylum Seekers
By Matthew Drogemuller This week’s decision by a Papua New Guinean court that the detention of 850 asylum seekers held in the Australian-controlled detention centre on Manus Island unlawfully breaches their rights means the Centre must be shut down. In...
Is There a Need for Frequent Drug Testing Throughout the NSW Police Force?
Last week, we reported on the case of Tara Radford, a Queensland Police Officer who was caught at Stereosonic with a line of cocaine and half a tablet of ecstasy. Ms Radford was one of 139 people arrested over the course...
Corruption in Australia on the Rise
Australia’s leading anti-corruption organisation has outlined a range of measures it says are needed for our nation to reclaim its place as a world-leader in fighting corruption. Transparency International Australia (TIA) is concerned by Australia’s drop from sixth to 12th position...
Indigenous deaths in custody – 25 years on from the Royal Commission
An Indigenous family is facing the Coroner’s Court in Queensland, searching for answers about the death of Bradley Coolwell, who died in 2011 after being restrained in Logan Hospital. For Coolwell’s family, hearing accounts of Bradley’s final days has been...
Accused Murderer Visits Dreamworld on Bail
Despite breaching her bail, a mentally impaired Melbourne woman accused of murder has had her bail continued, albeit on tougher conditions. Georgia Fields and two men, Jake Fairest and Warwick Toohey, are accused of murdering Robert Wright, who fell to...
