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,...
Aussies Launch Petition to Oust Morrison
More than 47,000 Australians have signed a petition in recent weeks, calling on the Governor General to dissolve parliament. The change.org petition asserts that the federal government has exhibited a ‘disregard’ for the rules governing the conduct of its own...
The Law, Defences and Penalties for Larceny as a Clerk or Servant in NSW
It has been alleged that a bank employee in the US city of Charlotte, North Carolina stole US$88,000 (approx. AUD$128,000) from the bank’s vault between July and August, 2019, and flaunted his new-found wealth on several social media posts. Arlando...
The Offence of Choking, Suffocation and Strangulation in New South Wales
In December 2018, the NSW Parliament passed the Crimes Legislation Amendment Bill which inserted a new section 37(1A) into the Crimes Act 1900. Unlike the existing section 37, subsection (1A) does not require the prosecution to prove that the defendant’s...
Foreign-Owned Companies Avoid Billions in Tax
As thousands of Australians wonder how they’ll put food on the table this Christmas, the Australian Tax Office (ATO) has released figures which (again) show that many large companies have avoided paying tax in recent years. Despite many individuals being...
NSW Justice Amendment Package Part 2: More Powers for Corrective Services and Sheriffs
It’s been another huge year in NSW parliament. The focus this time, however, wasn’t so much on rights eroding counterterrorism legislation, but the further stripping of civil liberties through last month’s enactment of the anti-protest Right to Farm Bill 2019....
What is Extortion?
The Federal Court’s judgment in 2020 had found Centrelink’s ‘robodebt system’ to be unlawful, and ordered the federal government to pay the legal costs of a social security recipient who challenged a debt notice that was issued to her in...
Police Ordered to Pay for Endangering Domestic Violence Victim
In a win for domestic violence victims and others who have had their private information illegally accessed by police officers, the Queensland Police Service (QPS) has been ordered to pay compensation to Julie (not her real name), after an officer...
Honest Cop Wins Appeal
Many Australians are cheering today, with the news that honest cop Rick Flori has won his appeal in Brisbane Supreme Court. It’s one of many battles the former Queensland police officer has fought, as he took and maintained a stance...
