Labor Says “F#*K Off We’re Full” to Medevac Refugees, After a Decade of Torture
The Liberal Nationals government tortured and imprisoned thousands of the planet’s most desperate people in facilities built on the soil of poorer nations for years because they arrived in Australian waters by boat seeking asylum, which is completely legal under...
Privacy Watchdog and Media Regulator Launch Investigations into Optus
Many Australians feel that large corporations and their executives have gotten away with flouting the law without sufficient consequences for far too long. And the recent Optus data breach has certainly added to that sentiment - with 10 million current...
Victoria Police Set to Become Less Accountable Than Ever
The Police Accountability Project (PAP) in Victoria has had to severely cut its services, due to a lack of funding. The project has, until recently, been servicing about 400 people a year, but now, due to funding shortfalls and future...
NSW Labor Considers Revoking Draconian Anti-Protest Laws
Another wave of extreme rainfall and flooding is only just beginning in NSW. This seems inconceivable after the deluge of March was already repeated in July. Yet, NSW premier Dominic Perrottet’s “one-in-a-thousand-year” flood event is now happening for a third time...
Beyond the Material: Capturing Thai Spirituality in Photos
Thailand is renowned for its Buddhism. With around 95 percent of the population adherents, temples, or wats, pepper the landscape, and bright, orange-robed monks stroll the streets. There are two strains of Buddhism: Theravada and Mahayana. In Thailand, the former is practiced....
Diplomacy is Needed to Prevent the Possibility of World War III
Joe Biden warned last week that the world is the closest it’s been to nuclear war in the last 60 years. The US president made these remarks in relation to Russian head of state Vladimir Putin having repeatedly made threats to...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 3 to 9 October 2022
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: High Times in the Land of Smiles: Some Snaps The demonstrated benefits of legalising cannabis should make our politicians question their continuing criminalisation of the...
At Kathmandu’s Hindu Burning Grounds, Death Is a Regular Public Matter
Standing amongst the burning funeral pyres at Pashupatinath on the eastern side of the city of Kathmandu, a person from Australia may be struck by the completely different approach to death Hindu people, who cremate their dead there, have. In...
Officer Charged with Fabricating Evidence, But His Victim Explains that Coverups Run Deep
When NSW police constable Daniel Keneally answered the phone at Newtown Police Station on 24 February 2021 to speak to the caller, Luke Brett Moore, neither man knew the other. Wanting to discuss this state’s police misuse of strip searches,...
UN Rules Australian Climate Inaction Is Violating Torres Strait Islander Rights
The UN Human Rights Commission found on 22 September, that the Australian government is indeed failing the peoples of the low-lying Torres Strait Islands, due to its refusal to take adequate action on the climate crisis, which in turn, is adversely impacting...
