Council Confiscates and Destroys Homeless Woman’s Possessions During Lockdown
A local council in Perth has confiscated the meagre belongings of a homeless woman located at a public park where she had been sleeping, affixed labels warning of a $5,000 fine for illegal dumping before destroying the belongings. 41-year old...
Buprenorphine: Helping Prison Inmates to Stay Away from Illegal Drugs
Last year, New South Wales Corrective Services injected about 900 prison inmates a month with a view to keeping them away from illegal drugs. Injecting inmates with an opioid called Buprenorphine, or ‘Bupe’, is intended to help inmates who have...
Stop Handcuffing Refugees: An Interview With Doctors for Refugees’ Patrick Lukins
On top of all the other brutality successive federal governments have been meting out upon refugees and asylum seekers who arrived in Australian waters by boat, it’s also required that these detainees are handcuffed whilst being transferred from a facility...
The Offence of Fraud in NSW: Law, Defences, Penalties and Sentencing Considerations
A 58-year old former employee of a sports club in Southern New South Wales has been charged with fraud after allegedly obtaining more than $1.1 million dishonestly and by a deception between December 2020 and January 2021. It has been...
Save Our Public Housing: An Interview With Hands Off Glebe’s Emily Bullock
In November 2020, NSW housing minister Melinda Pavey informed residents of the Franklyn Street public housing complex in Glebe and the Explorer Street public housing estate in Eveleigh that their homes are slated for demolition to make way for high-rise...
Berejiklian At It Again. This Time Using Desperately Needed Bushfire Relief Funds
Pork barrelling extraordinaire Gladys Berejikilian has been caught at it again. This time the NSW premier’s government was found to have been distributing bushfire relief funds in a politically advantageous manner in allegiance with big boss the Morrison government. The...
Government vs Google: Will The Tech Giant Really Leave Australia?
The battle lines have been drawn. Google Search has threatened to leave Australia if the new media bargaining code is introduced. So what does the future hold for the search engine that controls 95% of the market? The proposed law...
Teflon Gladys: Inquiry Hears Fresh Evidence of Corruption
Premier Gladys Berejiklian has attracted media headlines yet again as the New South Wales parliamentary inquiry into the allocation of government grants heard fresh reports of corruption. Summary approval The inquiry into the Integrity, Efficacy and Value for Money of...
Australians Demand a Real Political Alternative
Preselections for the next federal election are underway. And as the Herald has reported, despite PM Scott Morrison suggesting the nation won’t be voting until 2022, Liberal Party officials have been telling their electorates to get ready for a potential...
What is ‘Child Abuse Material’ in New South Wales?
A 48-year old New South Wales police sergeant was arrested on Friday 29 January 2020 and charged with accessing child abuse material online. The sergeant, who is attached to a ‘specialist command’, was taken to Fairfield Police Station where he...
