Preventative Programs are Primarily Responsible for Decline in NSW Crime
A Sydney criminologist believes that the implementation of preventative and diversionary strategies is the primary reason for most categories of crime declining across the state in recent years. Dr Garner Clancey, a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney, points...
Police Accused of Altering Crime Statistics
Two high-ranking Gold Coast crime managers have raised concerns that crime statistics are being manipulated by the police service in an effort to keep crimes and complaints from being recorded. The officers have reported that complaints against police and legitimate...
Queensland Considers Tracking Alleged Abusers
Defendants in Queensland domestic violence cases may be forced to wear electronic tracking devices, in a proposal warmly welcomed by victims’ groups. After mother of four, Teresa Bradshaw was fatally stabbed by her partner David while he was out on...
‘They give God a bad name,’ says victim
More than 1,800 Catholic Church figures and 4,444 allegations of abuse. Horrific numbers, which a senior Catholic Church figure has described as ‘shocking’ and ‘indefensible’ at the 50th public hearing of the Royal Commission - the 16th hearing dealing with...
Woman Stabs Boyfriend for Refusing Threesome
A man in the US has allegedly been stabbed in the arm and abdomen after refusing to participate in a ‘threesome’ with his girlfriend and another woman. The defendant, forty-two year old Teresa Gillard, met a woman at a local...
NSW Chief Justice Calls for Greater Public Communication
We previously reported on a speech delivered by the Chief Justice of NSW, Tom Bathurst, where he criticised the hundreds of new laws which impinge upon legal safeguards in Australia, calling upon lawyers to take a pro-active role in bringing...
History Repeats: The Parallels Between Trump and Hitler
In a 2010 interview, renowned political analyst and activist Noam Chomsky likened the political climate of the United States to that of the late Weimar Republic in Germany, right before Adolf Hitler became chancellor on January 30, 1933. Chomsky said...
NSW Chief Magistrate Blasts Defence Lawyers
Police in NSW enjoy the power to ‘shoot first and ask questions later’ - which means they can charge a person with a criminal offence on a mere ‘reasonable suspicion’, and try to gather evidence later. By contrast, police in...
Renewed Calls to Protect Whistleblowers
Senator Nick Xenophon wants to get rid of laws that make it a criminal offence for public sector employees to leak information that is embarrassing to the government. The laws Section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) (‘the Act’)...
Bail Granted Despite Sexual Assault Convictions
A judge in Downing Centre District Court has granted bail to a Sydney masseur after a jury found him guilty of sexually assaulting a female client. Anthony Theodosiou pleaded not guilty to five counts of indecent assault and three of...
