Victoria Extends ‘State of Emergency’ for Nine Months
The Victorian Government has extended the jurisdiction’s state of emergency until December 2021, despite falling Covid-19 numbers across the state. Under existing laws, this is the last time a state of emergency can be consecutively used for Covid-19, but there...
Abortion Is No Longer a Crime in Australia
The South Australian Government passed the Termination of Pregnancy Bill 2021 last week, bringing the state into line with all other jurisdictions around Australia. The new law means that terminating a pregnancy is no longer a criminal offence in that...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 1 to 7 March 2021
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The Laws, Defences and Penalties for Dog Attack Offences in New South Wales A dog has allegedly bitten a police officer who was attending to...
Marketing or Informing? Daniel Andrews Spends Big on Social Media
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has been making a committed effort to boost his profile on social media, but the effect may be transient now that it’s been revealed he’s spent almost $800,00 of taxpayer funds doing so. Victorian parliament’s Accounts...
Sexual Assault Is Rife Within Aged Care Facilities
The aged care sector is one of the largest service industries in the nation. And with Australia’s aging population, its significance is set to increase. However, in its current state, incidents of sexual abuse and assault are rife, and not...
Civil Liberties Advocates Call for End to Police Investigating Police
The various Australian state, territory and federal police agencies investigating their own has long been understood to be problematic. NSW Greens MLC David Shoebridge last year exposed NSW police as having paid out over $24 million in relation to police...
Release of Medevac Refugees Highlights Failure of Offshore Detention
The February 2019 passing of the Medevac laws meant that refugees and asylum seekers slowly being tortured under our government’s ongoing policy of mandatory offshore detention could be more easily transferred to the Australian mainland to seek much-needed medical treatment....
Should the Defence Minister Resign Over Her Handling of Sexual Assault Claim?
The Federal Minister for Defence, Linda Reynolds, could face defamation proceedings for calling Brittany Higgins a “lying cow’ within the earshot of other staff members on 15 February 2021, the day Ms Higgins went public with her sexual assault allegations....
Australia Must Declare Uyghur Genocide: An Interview With AUA’s Bahtiyar Bora
Right now, the Chinese government is perpetrating a genocide in the western province of Xinjiang: the homeland of the Uyghur people, which is locally known as the nation of East Turkistan. Indeed, the evidence emerging makes it increasingly clear that...
Morrison Impoverishes Jobless, Calls It a Raise: An Interview With AUWU’s Kristen O’Connell
Prior to the onset of COVID-19, the last time a federal government raised unemployment benefits in real terms was in 1994, way back when Keating was in power. This was despite ongoing and concerted campaigns over the years that called...
