“Brute Force and Paternalistic Grand Standing”: Sniff Off’s Olivia Barlow on NSW Police Drug Dog Use
After near on two years of the NSW government having relied on local police to heavy-handedly enforce health measures via the threat of monetary penalisation, and, if that didn’t work, brute force, premier Dominic Perrottet has let the COVID Omicron...
Proceeds of Crime Laws Are Now Being Used to Target Climate Activists
The November crackdown on Blockade Australia climate activists in Newcastle gained widespread attention after one protester, Sergeio Herbert, was actually sentenced to hard time for his part in nonviolent direct actions that were targeting the world’s largest coal port. Herbert was sent...
The Djokovic Saga Exemplifies the Joke Australia has Become
Tennis Australia officials and a good number of Aussie tennis fans were relieved to hear the ruling made by Federal Circuit Court Judge Anthony Kelly yesterday that Novak Djokovic can stay in Melbourne - for now. The judge also issued...
NSW Premier Reintroduces COVID Restrictions, As Case Numbers Soar
In mid-December 2021, around the time that unvaccinated people in New South Wales were finally allowed to mix and mingle in society along with the rest of the vaccinated population, Premier Domenic Perrottet made bold statements to the media about...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 3 to 9 January 2022
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Drug Importation Sentence Reduced, as Mitigating Factors Given Insufficient Weight The sentencing judge failed to give sufficient weight to personal factors, such as the defendant’s...
Worker’s Dismissal for Protesting Against Vaccine Mandates Was Lawful, Fair Work Commission Finds
The Fair Work tribunal has upheld a company’s decision to immediately terminate a construction industry worker after he attended rallies in Melbourne outside the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) office in the CBD. The Fair Work Commission...
Morrison’s Crusade to Re-Christianise the Nation Via Religious Liberties
Berkeley Professor Wendy Brown outlines that the Christian Right in the United States has been attempting to re-Christianise the public sphere since the 1990s, and this campaign has been gaining traction over the last decade, especially with the coming of...
Catholic Church Liable for Child Sexual Abuse by Priest
In what has been described as an Australian ‘legal first’, the Catholic Church has been found ‘vicariously liable’ for the child sexual offences committed by notorious Ballarat offender, priest Bryan Coffey, more than 50 years ago. Father Coffey was convicted...
When Can Police Use Pepper Spray in New South Wales?
An internal police investigation is now underway, following the death of a man pepper sprayed by New South Wales Police Officers. Police have only issued a few details about the incident. Police attended an address in Wellington in the central...
Stop the Dame Phyllis Frost Expansion: An Interview with Homes Not Prisons’ Karen Fletcher
On 19 March last year, the Andrews government announced a $188.9 million expansion for Victoria’s Dame Phyllis Frost Centre - a maximum security prison for women - which proposes the provision of an additional 106 new inmate beds. Increasing the capacity...
