Sydney Brothers Not Guilty of Manslaughter
Our client is a 40 year old man from Greystanes in greater Western Sydney. He lived with his older brother and elderly mother until her death in September 2017. On 23 August 2017, our client and his brother called an...
The Religious Right to Discriminate Bill: Morrison’s Holy Grail
In December 2017, as marriage equality was legalised, then treasurer Scott Morrison launched his religious privilege crusade. Ostensibly, it was to prevent religious discrimination, but in actuality, it marks a bid by the old order to uphold the right to...
Is It Illegal to Refuse a Strip Search in NSW?
In case you’ve been living under a rock over the last 12 months, the use of strip searches by New South Wales police has skyrocketed in recent years. NSW Greens MLC David Shoebridge released figures last December showing that the...
Governments Criminalise Protest to Silence Dissent: An Interview With Dr Piero Moraro
The right to protest is under threat in this country, as government has been conducting an all-out assault on mobilising and assembling over recent years. And as this nation remains the only western democracy without a federal bill of rights,...
“My Moral Duty to Rebel”: An Interview With Scientist Dr Martin Wolterding
On addressing the constituency at the podium, Australian politicians tend to shrug off climate protesters as part of the lunatic fringe. However, behind closed doors, those in government hold grave concerns about the implications of rising climate consciousness. This can...
‘Any Extent’ of Injury Can Amount to Female Genital Mutilation, High Court finds
In a majority decision released today, the High Court of Australia found that a female’s genitals do not need to be ‘render[ed] imperfect or irreparably damaged in some fashion’ for the offence of female genital mutilation to be established. The...
Turkish Assault on North Syria Threatens Radical Kurdish Democracy
US president Donald Trump announced on 6 October that he was pulling American troops out of northern Syria, effectively greenlighting the Turkish Erdoğan regime’s invasion of Rojava: a Kurdish majority society, which is forged upon radical democracy and the equality...
Inmates Help Farmers by Nurturing Livestock Back to Health
It started as an idea to help severely drought-affected farmers, but it’s a programme that’s proving to have even greater benefits for inmates at the Cooma Correctional Centre in southern New South Wales. Caring for the lambs A number of...
Police Officer Who Endangered Domestic Violence Victim Avoids Prison
A police officer has received a suspended sentence after pleading guilty to illegally accessing and using information from a police database. Senior Constable Neil Punchard was apparently joking around when he committed the crime of accessing the Queensland Police Service...
Attacks at Australian Mosques Continue: An Interview With ANIC’s Bilal Rauf
A man carrying a machete approached a number of worshippers on their way to the side entrance of Holland Park Mosque in Brisbane’s southside at around 8.30 pm last Wednesday. After being alerted to his presence, the congregants rushed inside...
