The Law and Penalties for Leaving Children Unattended in Vehicles
A woman has been charged with murder after her one and two-year old daughters were found dead in a car, allegedly as a result of being exposed to extreme heat. It has been reported that police and paramedics responded to...
Justice for Mhelody: An Interview With Migrante Australia’s Lina Cabaero
Mhelody Polan Bruno died at around 10 am on 22 September at Wagga Wagga Base Hospital. The death occurred after paramedics attended an apartment the morning before, where they stabilised her. The 25-year-old Filipina trans woman had been holidaying in...
Sydney Brothers Not Guilty of Manslaughter
By Ugur Nedim and Brooke Watson Our client is a 40 year old man from Greystanes in greater Western Sydney. He lived with his older brother and elderly mother until her death in September 2017. On 23 August 2017, our...
Sydney Criminal Solicitor Charged with Accessory to Murder
A criminal lawyer has been arrested and charged in relation to the murder of Craig Anderson, who was shot and killed at Doonside in Western Sydney earlier this year. The lawyer, Ms Alev Oncu, has been charged with accessory after...
Free Susan Neill-Fraser: An Innocent Woman Behind Bars
A news report dated 9 October 2009 states that Susan Neill-Fraser had appeared in a Tasmanian court that day, regarding the murder of her de facto partner of 18 years Bob Chappell. At the time, she was on remand following...
David Eastman to Sue Over Wrongful Murder Conviction
An ACT Supreme Court jury found David Eastman not guilty last November of the assassination-style killing of AFP assistant commissioner Colin Winchester. The police officer was gunned down as he was getting out of his car in the Canberra suburb...
Mentally Ill Man Dies After Being Repeatedly Tasered by NSW Police
30-year old Jack Kokua walked out of Royal Prince Alfred (RPA) hospital in Sydney shortly before 1pm on 18 February 2018. Forty minutes later, he was tasered three times in less than two minutes during an altercation with police, before...
Convicted Child Killer and Child Sexual Offender to be Released
Having served his time and with all legal avenues to keep him in prison exhausted, a convicted child sex offender and child killer will soon be released. New South Wales Attorney General Mark Speakman has been in the midst of...
Jock Palfreeman on His Denial of Parole & Rights Advocacy in a Bulgarian Prison
The Sofia City Court denied Jock Palfreeman parole on 17 July. Bulgarian Judge Nikolay Mladenov rejected the Sydney man’s bid for parole, in a decision that many believe was motivated because of his prisoners’ rights advocacy. The 32-year-old Australian is...
Australia Talks Tough on Khashoggi Killing
Australian foreign minister Marise Payne has labelled the alleged murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Arabian embassy in Istanbul as “outrageous” and says Australia will closely consider a recently released report into the incident before deciding whether to...
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