Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 4 to 10 May 2020
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Former Border Force Boss Found to be Corrupt, But No Charges Will Be Laid The watchdog found that the former chief of the Australian Border...
Mother Arrested While Protesting Her Rights
It’s difficult to believe these are scenes from Australia. A dramatic arrest, with police dragging a mother away from her screaming son as she was protesting ‘her rights’ during the Covid-19 pandemic. Before being confronted by police, the woman, Renee...
In West Papua, the Threat Is the Indonesian Military, Not the Virus
Central Jakarta District Court sentenced six activists demonstrating over West Papuan issues to between eight and nine months prison time on 24 April. The five men and one woman were convicted of treason for their part in a rally staged...
Do Not Trust the PM’s Promises Regarding the COVID-19 Tracking Data
No matter which side of the political divide they fall on, what sort of creed they adhere to, or whether they’re law-abiding citizens or not, the overwhelming majority of Australians have followed government advice and locked down for the COVID-19...
COVID-19 Prison Lockdowns Lead to Riots
Tensions are running high in prison systems across not just Australia but other parts of the world during COVID-19. Without access visits from family and friends, and even lawyers, inmates are becoming frustrated and angry which is leading to a...
Immigration Centres Analogous to Cruise Ships: An Interview With Doctors For Refugees’ Dr Barri Phatarfod
As of two weeks ago, the UK government had released around 400 immigration detainees into the community, with the aim of containing the spread of COVID-19. The move recognises that populations held within enclosed environments are at great risk of...
Prisoners Lives Are Still at Risk: An Interview With Ex-Inmate Damien Linnane
Victorian Supreme Court Justice Timothy Ginnane ordered on 1 May that the state’s justice department conduct a risk assessment of Port Phillip Prison in relation to COVID-19. The inquiry will include whether adequate cleaning and virus screening measures are taking...
Most Aussies Wouldn’t Go to a Pub or Restaurant Right Now, Survey Finds
As the PM and the Federal Health Minister continue to tell Australians that ‘life can’t go back to normal’ until many more of us download the CovidSafe app, a new survey shows that a significant number of Australians would be...
Labor’s Home Affairs Spokesperson Stirs Up Xenophobia
Obviously, shadowing Peter Dutton is getting a bit much for Labor’s Kristina Keneally, so last weekend the opposition home affairs spokesperson decided to simply ape the minister in an op-ed she wrote for the Herald recommending Australia slow its migrant...
Calls for Social Security Payments to be Permanently Increased
Sadly, for Australians living on the meagre $280 per week that was Newstart (recently rebranded to Job-seeker), it took a global pandemic for the Federal Government to implement a much-needed increase in the weekly payment. But it doesn’t look like...
