The Unholy Alliance Between One Nation’s Mark Latham and the Berejiklian Coalition
Playing the race card was how John Howard politicked, David Marr recalled in a 2017 essay. And as Howard took on the prime ministership in 1996, he didn’t seem too opposed to Pauline Hanson entering parliament at the same time,...
Good Cop Wins Battle Against Unfair Dismissal
A New South Wales police officer with an untarnished record has won a five year battle to get his job back, after a legal fight that’s cost the NSW Police Force $500,000 in legal costs alone. Sergeant George Zisopoulos was...
China Rolls Out Forced Labour Camps in Tibet: An Interview With ATC’s Gemima Harvey
Seventy one years after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) first sent in troops to begin its takeover of the free and independent nation of Tibet, Beijing is again escalating its project of decimating the culture and society of the sovereign...
“It Should Put all Australians on Notice”: Wilkie on the Unjust Assange Extradition Trial
The judge presiding over Julian Assange’s extradition case, Judge Vanessa Baraitser, indicated last week that she wouldn’t be making a decision on whether the Australian journalist and publisher will be sent to the United States, until after the November election....
NSW Police Officers Threaten to Break Man’s Legs During Unlawful Arrest
New South Wales police officers have once again been chastised by a magistrate after unlawfully arresting a man in the ACT, a jurisdiction where their powers are not recognised. The court has thrown out all charges against the man, calling...
The Authorities Fear the Movement to Stop Atrocities on First Nations People
NSW police permitted the Indigenous Social Justice Association (ISJA) to hold a silent march through the Sydney CBD last Saturday to mark the anniversaries of the deaths in custody of John Pat and Wayne Fella Morrison. The granting of permission...
Should Pepper Spray be Legalised in Australia?
As the statistics prove, violence against women shows no signs of abating, and there have long been calls for Australia to make it legal for women to carry pepper spray for self-defence. But currently, Western Australia is the only State...
NSW Police Intimidate Student Lunch Meeting: An Interview With Democracy Is Essential’s Chloe Rafferty
Sydney University students Chloe Rafferty and Holly Hayne were making their way over to a lunchtime student organising meeting last Friday that was about to be held at a campus park area, when three NSW police general duty officers approached...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 21 to 27 September 2020
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Protests Erupt Over Yet Another Indigenous Death In Police Custody South East Queensland has erupted into protests over the death of yet another Indigenous woman...
Escalation in Policing Is a Sign of What’s to Come in a Time of Austerity
Friday 25 September 2020 saw the Morrison government begin cutting back JobSeeker unemployment benefits. The increased rate provided to the escalating numbers of unemployed during the pandemic period is being reduced, as treasurer Josh Frydenberg attempts to starve people back...
