Guilty verdict sends message that police cannot abuse their powers
Southport Magistrate Chris Callaghan hopes the conviction of a senior Queensland policeman will send a message that officers who engage in criminal acts will be held responsible if they are brought before the courts. Magistrate Callaghan found Senior Sergeant Chris...
Eliminating $100 Notes Will Reduce Crime, say currency experts
Australian currency experts suggest that removing $100 notes from circulation will reduce organised crime and tax fraud. Professor Steve Worthington from Swinburne University says that while $30 billion worth of $AUD100 notes are currently in circulation, most people rarely carry...
Crime Rates in Australia: Don’t Be Brainwashed by Big Business
When H.L. Mencken famously remarked, “for every complex problem there is a solution; neat, simple and wrong”, he could have been describing Australia’s ‘tough-on-crime’ approach to criminal justice. Although crime rates have consistently fallen since 2001, the prison population has...
How Much Does a Lawyer Make?
The Australian Taxation Office had released its 2013/14 income statistics by occupation and gender, with specialist medical practitioners taking out many of the top spots. Notably absent once again from those lists are two occupations often perceived by members of...
English Premier League: The ‘Football for Sale’ Scandal
Police in the United Kingdom have commenced investigations into allegations of bribery and corruption within English football. The move is a response to the “Football for Sale” report by the Daily Telegraph, which led to the resignation of England national...
Employee Defeats Robbers with Frogs
Police are calling for assistance after a trio of armed robbers in Aberdare, near Cessnock, had their plans foiled by flying packs of red frogs. The would-be thieves learnt the hard way that crime doesn’t pay, when a quick thinking...
Queensland May Finally Abolish Gay Panic Defence
After years of petitioning, the Queensland government has finally introduced a bill to abolish the antiquated gay panic defence. The state’s attorney-general Yvette D’Ath presented the Criminal Law Amendment Bill 2016 to parliament on Wednesday. Officially known as the homosexual advancement...
Sydney Lawyer ‘Struck Off’ for Stealing Client’s Money
Another NSW lawyer has been struck off for engaging in professional misconduct. This time it was Mr Thai Le Huu Nguyen. The Civil and Administrative Tribunal found him guilty on November 18 this year, for conduct it deemed to be...
Not Guilty of Fraud After Overdrawing $2 Million
Luke Brett Moore’s Facebook status simply reads: “NOT GUILTY. (:” Earlier this week, the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal (NSWCCA) overturned the fraud conviction against him and he now hopes to get on with his life. But it was a...
Police Taser 12-Year Old Boy in the Back
Northern Territory police have come under fire for using a taser on a 12-year old boy, and for their use of tasers on children generally. The Incident The NT Ombudsman has requested a briefing from police after they tasered the...
