Does Your Boss Remind You of Hitler?
It seems there was a time when pretty much anyone and anything could be a punchline. But in this day and age of political correctness, it can seem as though the pendulum has swung in the other direction, and that...
NSW Still Forces Trans People to Undergo Surgery for Legal Recognition
A January 2019 ruling of the Japanese Supreme Court in the case of a 43-year-old transgender man who challenged having to undergo sterilisation in order to gain legal recognition of his gender sparked international condemnation, as it was found the...
What is a Royal Commission in Australia?
The Governor-General of Australia is empowered under the Royal Commissions Act of 1902 (Cth) to establish commissions of inquiry on behalf of the Crown, when there is a particularly important issue of public concern. Typically, Royal Commissions fit two categories:...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 24 February to 1 March 2020
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: NSW Police Officer Remains on Force Despite Being Guilty of Sexual Touching The sergeant has been suspended on full pay despite being found guilty of...
Should We Stop Deporting Kiwis Who Call Australia Home?
Since the early 1970s, when Australia and New Zealand put the Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement (TTTA) in place, citizens of both countries have enjoyed the freedom to travel and even settle, marry, work and live for any length of time in...
White Supremacists: The Real Terrorism Threat
The Australian Security and Intelligence Agency (ASIO) has identified the “Neo Nazi movement” as a considerable threats to Australia’s national security. Every year, the director-general of ASIO delivers a terrorism threat assessment with a view to identifying and taking measures...
Good People Break Bad Laws: Illicit Drugs
Not a lot of people who’ve grown up under drug prohibition consider that going back a little over a hundred years ago, the substances we commonly associate with being outlawed were for the most part legally available. The first rumblings...
Drug Alerts: Warning the Public About Toxic Batches of Illicit Drugs
According to ex-Victoria police sergeant Greg Denham when a dodgy batch of ecstasy caps - which ultimately resulted in the deaths of three people - were being distributed around Melbourne’s Chapel Street in early 2017, the police were aware of...
Australia Moves to Block an Investigation into War Crimes in Palestine
On Wednesday, Israeli president Reuven Rivlin paid a visit to Australian parliament in Canberra. And to greet him was a vigil for Palestinian human rights, which involved a number of federal parliamentarians, including Andrew Wilkie, Mehreen Faruqi and Adam Bandt....
“A Local Solution to a Local Problem”: An Interview With Uniting MSIC’s Dr Marianne Jauncey
UNSW criminology lecturer Dr George Dertadian released his findings last week from a study that utilised national coronial overdose death data, which pointed to southwestern Sydney as an ideal candidate for a second safe injecting facility. Dertadian found that between...
