Sleeping Killers: What Does the Law Say?
The criminal law is called upon to deal with all kinds of bizarre and unlikely scenarios, including situations where people kill while asleep. Although it may sound like a horror movie plot, homicidal sleepwalkers have been well-documented for centuries –...
The Woman Accused of 260,000 Murders
The genocide of Jews during World War II is widely considered to be the most heinous event in human history, with an estimated 1.1 million people killed at Auschwitz between 1940 and 1945. Although 70 years have passed, the plight...
Language Barriers in the Criminal Justice System
The Australian legal system is premised on notions of justice, fairness and equality before the law, but in reality the system often fails the most disadvantaged members of our community. Amongst our most vulnerable are Indigenous Australians, who are often...
Fighting for Life: An Aboriginal Man’s Struggle
Prejudice against Indigenous Australians has been rife since colonisation. Regrettably, the plight of our original Australians is riddled with accounts of horrific abuse and cultural decimation by white colonists, including physical and sexual abuse, and shocking massacres of men, women...
Prisons Minister Will Do Anything to Please Ray…
“It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.” - Nelson Mandela The above sentiment...
Reduced Sentences for Cold Case Clues
The man accused of murdering 10-year-old Louise Bell evaded arrest for nearly three decades before being charged with her murder in 2013 following a police investigation which spanned 20 years. The young Adelaide girl was sleeping in a room with...
Australian Politicians Who Commit Crimes
With the ousting of our Prime Minister last week, Australia now has our fourth leader in just three years. Most of us have a healthy scepticism when it comes to politics - and not many of us truly think that...
Spotting a Psychopath
In March this year, the family of 31-year-old Morgan Huxley sobbed as a Supreme Court jury found Daniel Lee Kelsall guilty of his murder. 22-year-old Kelsall was convicted of indecently assaulting Huxley in a Neutral Bay apartment on September 8, 2013,...
Would You Buy a Property that was the Scene of a Murder?
If you’re a fan of Channel Nine’s reality show The Block, you may have heard the grisly rumours about the latest property to be developed. It has emerged that the former hotel, located in South Yarra in Victoria, was the...
Pro-Life Activists to be Banned from Protesting Near Abortion Clinics
Advocates of women’s rights have had a battle on their hands of late, with conservative MP Fred Nile introducing a series of Bills into parliament in May of this year which, if passed, would make it harder to get abortions....
