Truck Drivers Set to Protest Over COVID-19 Restrictions
The nation is polarised over whether protests should occur during COVID-19 lockdowns. Those against these protests see them as an unjustified intrusion on the civil liberties of others, namely the right against being infected by the virus. They label protesters...
NSW Police Force Flexes Its Muscle Against Anti-Lockdown Protesters
The poster for the 21 August Nationwide Rally for Freedom, Peace and Human Rights - otherwise known as the anti-lockdown march - had been doing the rounds of social media for a number of weeks. And it stated that the...
Rather Than Enforce, Employers Should Encourage Facilitate Uptake, Says ACTU’s Sally McManus
As the push for greater COVID-19 vaccination levels grows as the outbreak of the Delta variant of the virus continues to spike, the debate around workplace vaccination mandates is starting to reach fever pitch. Whilst the federal government made it...
NSW Police Commissioner Gets Another Pay Rise
New South Wales Police Commissioner, Mick Fuller, has been granted another pay rise, at the same time thousands of residents, workers and businesses are in financial dire straits. Mr Fuller’s salary will be increased by a further 2.5 percent –...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 16 to 22 August 2021
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Victoria’s Ongoing Heavy-Handed Cannabis Policing Is Harmful Former senior police sergeant Greg Denham explains that, ‘[d]rugs aren’t the problem: it’s our drug policies that are...
Anti-lockdown Protester Sent to Prison
It has been reported that a Victorian man was sentenced to a full term of eight months in prison, with a minimum term of three months, after pleading guilty to offences related to organising yesterday’s anti-lockdown protest in Sydney. According...
“Australia Has a Very Particular Obligation” to Take In Afghan Refugees
As the Taliban swept back into Kabul last Sunday to consolidate its control over Afghanistan, questions are being raised as to how the Australian government is going to meet its obligations to those who’ve fled, are fleeing and will be...
Fears Raised as COVID Policing Deployed to Regional First Nations Communities
As the first cases of COVID-19 were detected in western NSW on 11 August, the primary concern was that the highly contagious Delta variant would commence spreading through local First Nations communities that have been identified as “vulnerable” since the...
NSW Government Cashes In on COVID Fines
Millions of dollars in Covid fines have already been handed out in New South Wales, and increased penalties are now in force across our state – which is likely to see the figure spike. 3338 fines totalling $4,409,800 were issued...
“We Can’t Police Our Way Out of a Pandemic”: Shoebridge on Intensifying COVID Policing
The NSW Parliament Public Accountability Committee held its first hearing this year into the NSW Government’s Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic inquiry on 10 August. The meeting was confrontational as NSW health minister Brad Hazzard repeatedly blocked questions that committee...
