Should the Age of Criminal Responsibility in Australia be Raised?
During the 12 month period 2017-2018, more than five-and-a-half thousand young people aged 10 and over were under youth justice supervision on an average day. Eighteen percent were in detention and, of those , 60% were unsentenced. Half were Indigenous....
The Injustice in Chile Continues: An Interview With Pinochet-Era Activist Paula Sanchez
After more than two months of protests, the mass movement of grassroots Chileans calling for system change continues. And while the nation is often held up as a beacon of economic prosperity, those demonstrating are the overwhelming majority, who don’t...
Straight Talking Cannabis: An Interview With LoudCloudHealth’s Bojana Petkovic
Fibromyalgia is a medical condition that intensifies pain. Characterised by widespread musculoskeletal agony, fibro is often accompanied by fatigue, sleep and mood issues. It’s more common in women than men. And there’s no known cure for this neurological health disorder....
Donate to the Black Ops Firefighters: Unofficial Grassroots Defenders
Kicking in extremely early, this year’s fire season has been unprecedented in its intensity. In NSW and Queensland alone, over 3 million hectares have been destroyed. While last Friday saw over 200 bushfires raging across five states. And the ferocity...
Free Julian Assange Before It’s Too Late!
Hundreds of thousands of people have signed a petition to halt the extradition of Julian Assange from the United Kingdom to the United States. The petition calls on Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne to put pressure on the UK to...
Google to Pay Nearly Half a Billion Dollars in Australian Tax
Hot on the heels of news published earlier this month that multi-nationals are still paying little to no tax here in Australia, one of the world’s most well-known corporate juggernauts has announced it has reached a settlement with the ATO...
From One Prison to Another: Medevac Detainees Face Uncertain Future
More than 40 men are being detained in a hotel in Melbourne’s northern suburbs, in what might as well be called ‘no man’s land’. Evacuated from Papua New Guinea under the previous medevac transfer system, they are now stuck in...
The Law, Defences and Penalties for Drug Supply in New South Wales
A young woman has been charged with drug supply after allegedly being found with 1000 MDMA (‘ecstasy’) tablets at a music festival. New South Wales police officers are reported to have found 800 tablets in the woman’s bra and 200...
“The Liar From the Shire”: Thousands March Demanding Action from Morrison
A now usual smoky haze covered the city skyline as thousands of ticked off citizens streamed across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Saturday, demanding drastic action from the government in the face of fire conditions that authorities had deemed catastrophic....
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 16 to 22 December 2019
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The Offence of Choking, Suffocation and Strangulation in New South Wales Prosecutions for choking have dramatically increased since the offence was recently broadened. Click here...
