May Day Car Convoy Rally Calls for Worker Rights and Climate Action: An Interview With Rachel Evans
The May 1 Movement held the No Worker Left Behind car cavalcade protest in Sydney’s CBD on 9 April. It was drawing attention to the federal government having just passed the JobKeeper wage subsidy package, which simply neglected to cover...
Taxpayers Will Foot the Bill for Government’s Denial of Procedural Fairness
The Federal Government has been ordered to pay Tamil family, Priya and Nades Murugappan and their two Australian-born daughters Kopika and Tharunicaa more than $200,000 in legal fees over their bid to stay in Australia. In a small win for...
Should Tech Giants Pay Publishers for Content?
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is working through a Code of Conduct for big tech companies including Google and Facebook. The Code, which was mooted last year as a result of the landmark digital platforms inquiry in December,...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 20 to 26 April 2020
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Drunken Shooter Avoids Prison Due to COVID-19 A man who accidentally shot his daughter in the head while trying to scare her was given a...
Calls for DV Minister Speakman To Help Temporary Visa Holders and Provide Support
There has been much discussion of the one million plus temporary visa holders that aren’t covered under the JobKeeper package, who now - at a time when returning to their home countries is near impossible - are stuck in Australia...
COVID-19: Victoria Introduces Judge-Only Trials
One of the few rights guaranteed by the Australian Constitution is the right to a trial by jury. The right is contained in section 80 of the Constitution, which provides that: “The trial on indictment of any offence against any...
Scout Leader Sent to Prison For Child Sexual Offences
A former New South Wales scout leader has been given a full term of more than 31 years in prison after pleading guilty to 12 child sexual assault offences, including one count of sexual intercourse with a child under 10...
Pandemic or Not, the Morrison Squad Represents the Corporates
The current COVID-19 pandemic overshadowed the revelations around the Australian government’s dodgy dealings with Timor-Leste that Bernard Collaery set out in his recently published foreign policy history, Oil Under Troubled Water. A key issue raised in the book is that...
The Second Wave: How COVID Police Powers Could Become Permanent
The huge number of COVID-19 infections and deaths in the United States hasn’t prevented the right-wing nutjobs from taking to the streets - some bearing arms - calling for an end to lockdown restrictions and a prioritisation of economic activity...
Tanya Day’s Family Continue Fight to See Justice for Their Mother
Tanya Day’s children are continuing their campaign for justice in relation to their mother’s death in custody, following Victorian state coroner Caitlan English’s recommendation that two police officers involved in monitoring her be considered for criminal prosecution due to negligence....
