Should Aussies Avoid Bali?
The Indonesian President has backtracked on introducing controversial new laws that would make sex outside marriage a criminal offence for both locals and tourists. The proposed laws have gained a lot of attention online, and have triggered debate in many...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 16 to 22 September 2019
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Dozens Charged with Participating in a Criminal Group Up to 40 people have been charged over an alleged day-care fraud ring, which has been described...
Poisoning Offences in New South Wales
A judge in Downing Centre District Court has sentenced a 22-year old woman to a full term of 6 years in prison with a minimum of 3 years for endangering her baby’s life by administering a harmful medication. The woman...
Tibetans Lobby Canberra to Make China Accountable on Rights Abuses
Freedom in the World 2019 ranks Chinese-occupied Tibet the second most oppressed region on the globe, following war-devastated Syria. Indeed, 70 years under Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule, has left the once autonomous nation one of the most heavily policed...
Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System
17-year old Stephen Downing had learning difficulties and a reading age of 11. After nine hours of intense police interrogation, he eventually confessed to the murder of a 32-year old legal secretary. There was just one small problem: he didn’t...
David Eastman to Sue Over Wrongful Murder Conviction
An ACT Supreme Court jury found David Eastman not guilty last November of the assassination-style killing of AFP assistant commissioner Colin Winchester. The police officer was gunned down as he was getting out of his car in the Canberra suburb...
Mentally Ill Man Dies After Being Repeatedly Tasered by NSW Police
30-year old Jack Kokua walked out of Royal Prince Alfred (RPA) hospital in Sydney shortly before 1pm on 18 February 2018. Forty minutes later, he was tasered three times in less than two minutes during an altercation with police, before...
Boycott Alan Jones: An Interview With Mad F-cking Witches’ Jennie Hill
Over the last month, advertisers have been exiting 2GB’s Alan Jones Breakfast Show in droves. By Wednesday afternoon, close to 120 brands had actively sought to distance themselves from the radio shock jock, who’s notorious for having made divisive comments...
Join the Adani Blockade: An Interview With Frontline Action on Coal’s Andrea Valenzuela
Frontline Action on Coal (FLAC) has issued a red alert calling on activists from across Australia to join its Blockade Adani campaign at the Binbee camp on Birri country close to the site of the Indian mining giant’s proposed Carmichael...
George Pell’s Last Bid for Freedom
Making the deadline by just one day, lawyers for George Pell have filed an application for ‘special leave’ (permission) to appeal to the High Court of Australia, seeking to persuade the court there are legal grounds to hear the appeal...
