Court Declines to Issue Guideline Judgment for the Offence of Assaulting Police
In late 2002, the NSW attorney general Bob Debus applied to the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal for a guideline judgment in relation to the offence of assault police, which is a crime contained in section 60(1) of the Crimes...
Harsher Domestic Violence and AVO Laws Enacted in New South Wales
Domestic violence offences continue to be prevalent across Australia, despite a range of initiatives aimed at effecting cultural change and supporting those affected, as well as recently passed laws which make it more difficult for those accused of domestic or...
NSW Policemen Assault Women and Girls at Shopping Centre
Horrific footage of two heavily built New South Wales policemen approaching a group of predominantly women and girls who are engaging in what can be fairly described as a ‘push and shove’ in a Batemans Bay shopping centre, before violently...
Police Officers Assault Youth in Adult Watchhouse
Footage emerged last week that shows a 17-year-old First Nations boy standing in a room in a Queensland police watchhouse. And at first glance, and without any details of the incident about to unfold, the boy appears to be walking...
NSW Police Under Investigation Over Delayed Response to Domestic Violence Report
Australian Femicide Watch has reported that another woman has been murdered at the hands of her male partner, making her the 47th female to be killed in the nation as a result of domestic violence offending this year alone, the...
NSW Crackdown on Domestic Violence: Police Blitzes and Bail Reforms
More than 550 people described by police as the state’s ‘most high risk domestic violence offenders’ have been arrested and charged with a total of 1,070 offences during in a four day police operation across New South Wales that ran...
Higher Bail Threshold and Monitoring Devices Proposed for Alleged Domestic Violence Offending
The New South Wales government’s latest response to the epidemic of domestic violence across the state is to make it harder for those charged with domestic violence offences to achieve bail and to require monitoring devices to be worn by...
Domestic Violence Offences Plague Indigenous Communities Across Australia
Domestic violence offences are at epidemic levels across Australia, impacting individuals and families in all communities. But when it comes to Indigenous communities, the prevalence of domestic violence offending is especially alarming. According to a report by the Australian Institute...
A Tale of Two Failed Approaches to Violence: That Toward Women and Terrorism
The fear of terrorism offences has played a prominent role in the Australian psyche since the early 2000s. And a complicated set of laws has since been enacted to combat a particular type of crime, and this bipartisan project has...
Australian Governments Promise to Crackdown on Domestic Violence Offences
Welcome, Anthony Albanese, to the ‘national crisis’ of domestic violence offences predominantly - but certainly not always - committed by men against women. In response to thousands of women, men and children rallying over the weekend against the epidemic of...
