Lockout Laws to be Relaxed in Sydney
January doesn’t just signal the start of a new year, it’s also when a range of new laws will commence in New South Wales. Rollback of lockout laws For many late-night business operators and socialisers, the rollback of lock out...
Court Reduces Sentence for Customs Officer Turned Tobacco Smuggler
It was around March 2017 when ex-Australian Border Force (ABF) customs official Johayna Merhi and current ABF senior customs officer Craig Eakin agreed to assist the Jomaa crime syndicate with their illicit large-scale tobacco importation operation. Unbeknownst to the pair...
How Do You Rate Morrison’s Performance in 2019?
If the Australian public was to give the Morrison government a report card for the year, the scores would - most likely - come in well below average on a number of pressing social issues. Sadly for many, our ‘lucky...
Indonesia Pressures Foreign Teachers to Take ‘Gay Test’
The Indonesian government is putting pressure on foreign teachers to take a test which it says can determine whether a person has ‘abnormal’ sexual desires. Reports suggest that the exam ask questions such as “agree or disagree: I would feel...
How Does the NSW Demerit Point Suspension Scheme Work?
At around 1 am on Christmas day this year, NSW Central West highway patrol officers pulled over a Nissan Skyline on the Newell Highway near Parkes to randomly breathalyse the driver. However, on checking the details of his licence, officers...
Free Julian Assange Before It’s Too Late!
Hundreds of thousands of people have signed a petition to halt the extradition of Julian Assange from the United Kingdom to the United States. The petition calls on Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne to put pressure on the UK to...
Google to Pay Nearly Half a Billion Dollars in Australian Tax
Hot on the heels of news published earlier this month that multi-nationals are still paying little to no tax here in Australia, one of the world’s most well-known corporate juggernauts has announced it has reached a settlement with the ATO...
From One Prison to Another: Medevac Detainees Face Uncertain Future
More than 40 men are being detained in a hotel in Melbourne’s northern suburbs, in what might as well be called ‘no man’s land’. Evacuated from Papua New Guinea under the previous medevac transfer system, they are now stuck in...
The Law, Defences and Penalties for Drug Supply in New South Wales
A young woman has been charged with drug supply after allegedly being found with 1000 MDMA (‘ecstasy’) tablets at a music festival. New South Wales police officers are reported to have found 800 tablets in the woman’s bra and 200...
NSW Justice Amendment Package Part 3: Police Given Greater Powers to Access Personal Information Without a Warrant
As the holiday period drew nearer, the NSW attorney general thought he’d deliver an amendment bill that didn’t simply fill the stocking of one Act that needed changing. Instead, with festive cheer, Mark Speakman delivered one that, in his words,...
