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Court’s Tripling of Climate Defending Duo’s Prison Sentence Is a Sign of Things to Come

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Victorian County Court Judge David Sexton outlined on Tuesday that Violet CoCo and Brad Homewood might have been “well-intentioned” in raising the climate alarm, but their method of blocking lanes of a bridge to do so, “caused a significant risk...

Howard’s Duping the Public on Iraq Should Stand as Warning to the Present

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Australia following the US into a foreign war is pertinent at present. The slow understanding that China was starting to be framed as an adversary in the media commenced circa 2017 and, since last March’s San Diego AUKUS announcement, it’s...

“A Kick in the Guts”: Higginson on Minn’s “Retrograde” Crackdown on Youth Crime

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The major parties are fast losing touch with their respective constituencies. And no matters reveal this more clearly at the federal level of late than the genocide in Gaza and the AUKUS submarine deal. But state governments are too failing...

A Year in It’s Certain, Chris Minns Is a Liberal Premier Dressed in Labor Trappings

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The last NSW election, as usual, had Labor and the Liberals pitted against each other for governance. But the difference in the pre-election campaign, it was often remarked, was the seeming interchangeability between the leaders of each major both in...

New South Wales Introduces Fining Scheme for All Prohibited Drugs

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The Minns government launched the Early Drug Diversion Initiative (EDDI) on 29 February 2024 with little fanfare, which is a shame because it does mark a long-pushed-for improvement on the zero-tolerance law enforcement approach to personal drug possession that had...

NSW Police Under Fire for Illegally Conducting Warrantless Searches

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The practice of searches by New South Wales police officers without a valid warrant is again under fire, and for good reason.  New figures have come to light which reveal that police officers in our state stop and search an...

Terrorist Act Against Pro-Palestinian Not Regarded as Terrorism at All

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A resident of Botany and his partner came across a do-it-yourself bomb sitting atop the bonnet of his ute parked in his driveway, near the Palestinian flag he’d erected by his letterbox, along with a message board expressing his dismay...

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 11 to 17 March 2024

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In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Sydney’s 22nd Mass Palestinian Rally Foretells of a Coming Political Reckoning: In Photos After 22 straight weeks of demonstrations against the Gaza genocide, the strength...

SAMS (Special Administrative Measures): A Key Reason Assange Can’t Be Extradited

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The treatment the United States metes out to detainees is notoriously harsh, especially if you are considered an enemy of the state, and at times, it plainly constitutes torture. The extreme abuse at the black site of Abu Ghraib in...

NSW and Victorian Labor Continue to Stall on Pill Testing, Despite Yet Another Death

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Shortly after being airlifted to Melbourne’s Alfred Hospital, 23-year-old Antony Maugeri died of a suspected drug overdose last weekend, after having attended the Pitch Arts and Music Festival in southwestern Victoria. The death is a reminder that the last time...
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