Thorpe Warns of Rising Custody Deaths, as Underfunded Aboriginal Legal Services Shut
The Aboriginal Legal Service shut down operations in thirteen regional areas of NSW on 15 May of this year, not due to there being any lack of demand for its services, but due to the fact that federal funding has not...
‘Representations’ Can Result in Criminal Charges Being Withdrawn
Olympic boxer Harry Garside has a nervous wait ahead after his criminal defence lawyers told a court this week they have made formal representations to the New South Wales Police Force requesting that the domestic violence-related proceedings against their client...
The History of Currency Counterfeiting and Evolution of Counterfeiting Offences
This article is the first in a series of counterfeiting, with a different subject to be discussed in subsequent articles. Today’s subject is on counterfeiting currency, both coinage and banknotes, notwithstanding items such as ingots and a specific sea shell...
NSW Police Officer Charged with Assault Over Fatal Tasering of Great-Grandmother
The New South Wales police officer who tasered a 95-year old woman at an aged care facility has been charged with recklessly causing grievous bodily harm, after the great-grandmother who suffered from dementia died in hospital as a result of...
Fatally Tasering Great-Grandmothers Is Par for the Course for the NSW Police Force
“The role of a police officer seems to be growing wider and wider and we are expected to know everything about everything,” NSW police commissioner Karen Webb told Sunrise on Tuesday morning. And she added that state law enforcement officers “are...
SA Major Parties Attempt to Extinguish Climate Protest With Draconian Penalties
As the South Australian Labor and Liberal parties worked in tandem last week to rush through harsh laws to stamp out climate protests, it was as if the Malinauskas government had simply ripped a page out of the NSW playbook...
NSW Police Officer Found Guilty of Assault For Slamming Teen to the Ground
A New South Wales Police Officer has been found guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm after slamming a 16-year old Indigenous youth into the ground in Sydney’s inner suburbs. The defended hearing took place in Downing Centre Local Court...
The Criminal Offence of Treason: Definition, Evolution and Political Application
Treason has for hundreds of years been considered one of the most serious offences that a person can commit. Whilst the criminal offence of treason dates at least as far back as Roman times, the vagaries and inconsistencies in what...
Footage Released of NSW Police Using Excessive Force Against Elderly Woman
While the outrage that New South Wales police tasered a 95-year old dementia patient in a Cooma nursing home last week continues to simmer, another disturbing story has emerged. Footage has now surfaced of of six police officers using two...
Karen Webb’s Cop Out: Police Commissioner Won’t Watch Tasering of Elderly Woman
New South Wales Police Commissioner Karen Webb says she ‘hasn’t’ and is adamant she ‘won’t’ watch the footage of her officers tasering an elderly woman who suffers dementia at a nursing home. The footage has been recorded on police body...
