Fund Climate Action, Not Submarines: An Interview With Wage Peace’s Margaret Pestorius
The eastern seaboard has been burning since September. And Australians are well aware that the bushfires that have since been gripping the whole continent are unprecedented in their length and ferocity. The general public has also made the link between...
The Offence of Assisting a Suicide
In the days before Christmas, Western Australia became the second state in Australia to legalise voluntary assisted dying. More than 180 hours were spent debating the legislation in parliament, but under the final laws, terminally ill adults in pain and...
Waves of Anti-Government Protests Are Sweeping the Planet
As 2019 was drawing to a close, many turned to look to the factors that shaped the social landscape over the last 12 months. And two themes kept recurring: grassroots protest movements and concerns over changing climate. While just two...
Volunteer to Help Get Rid of Drug Dog Operations at Festivals: An Interview With Sniff Off
Back in the old days, when people held music festivals, it used to be a time of great merriment. Youths could freely turn up to such events, where they were assured of having a grand time, as they forgot about...
Dutton Slammed for Locking Up a Blind, Mentally Ill Refugee for a Decade
A decision made by the Federal Court of Australia on Christmas Eve could have huge implications for large numbers of refugees locked up by the Australian government. For many years, there have been concerns about the arbitrary power the Home...
What is Stalking in New South Wales?
The SBS Insight program featured a segment some time ago about the nature and prevalence of stalking in Australia, with alleged offenders, complainants and police officers relating their experiences of such conduct and the criminal justice system’s treatment of it....
The Offence of Public Mischief in NSW
A professor at the University of Technology, Sydney is facing court for allegedly making a complaint to police that she was the victim of harassing letters, when she actually sent the letters to herself. Police arrested and charged UTS professor...
Catholic Priest Dies Before Being Sentenced for Child Sexual Abuse
Disgraced former Catholic Priest James Joseph Cunneen, who was found guilty of indecently assaulting six teenage boys in New South Wales in the late 1980s, has died before he could be sentenced. 60-year old Mr Cunneen was due to be...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 6 to 12 January 2020
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The Offence of Causing Bushfires in New South Wales A 79-year old man has been arrested and charged with causing four bushfires. Click here to...
Australia Forges Ahead With the Politics of Lying and Getting Away With It
Right on Christmas, the Federal Court ruled that despite official Liberal signage featured at two Victorian electorates during the last federal election being deliberately misleading, the party members who took out those seats can keep them. The three justice bench...
