Giving Voice to Migrants and Refugees: An Interview With IMA’s Professor Bruno Di Biase
The start of the COVID-19 pandemic saw the entire nation of Australia go into lockdown. However, when 500 Victoria police officers were deployed to enforce a hard lockdown at nine public housing towers in North Melbourne and Flemington, it was...
Six Years on, Still No Justice for David Dungay Jnr, Says Dunghutti Activist Paul Silva
The footage of five Long Bay prison guards holding David Dungay Jnr facedown in the prone position on a bed, as he screams out that he can’t breathe multiple times, is not only hard to watch, but it begs why it...
Doctors Implore Joyce to Back His Words and See Assange Released
The UK High Court determined on 10 December that Julian Assange could be extradited to the United States to face multiple espionage charges carrying up to 175 years imprisonment. This is even with the Australian journalist having suffered a ministroke during...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 20 to 26 December 2021
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: NSW Government Backflips on Speed Camera Warning Signs Speed camera warning signs are set to be reintroduced after a public backlash against their removal. Click...
The Doctrine of Discovery: The Church Legalised the European Colonial Project
UK Captain James Cook arrived on the east coast of the continent these days referred to as Australia in August 1770, and he claimed the island in the name of King George III, on the basis that it was terra nullius: “that...
NZ and US Pass Laws to Reduce Smoking Harms, While Australia Makes it Harder to Quit
The NZ government launched its Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan on 9 December. A decade in the making, the policy proposes to see less than 5 percent of the population smoking in four years’ time, within a country that sees a...
The Impact of Family Court Decisions on the Christmas Holidays
Christmas is a time when families are meant to be together, sharing each others’ company and reflecting on the things in life that really matter. And despite travel restrictions, most families will be able to spend time with one another...
Have Yourself a Very Perrottet Christmas
As Dominic Perrottet took over the reins of the NSW Liberal Nationals government on 5 October, it was understood that the new premier was going to shift the decade-long conservative governance in this state a trifle further to the right…...
Demerge Mega-Councils: An Interview With Residents for Deamalgamation’s Andrew Chuter
The 4 December elections for Inner West Council were different to the votes held at all other 127 local government areas in NSW, as the constituents in Sydney’s inner west had an extra optional question to deliberate upon, and that was whether...
Road Fatalities on the Rise Despite COVID Lockdowns
Despite Covid lockdowns right across the country for large chunks of last year and the year before, road fatalities are on the rise. The pressure is now on governments at both the state and federal level to reassess road safety...
