Transgender Woman Complains Against Beauticians Who Refused to Wax Her Crotch
In recent weeks, the Victorian Government has reintroduced a bill to Parliament which would make it easier for people to change the gender recorded on their birth certificate to male, female or any other gender descriptor of their choice. The...
Domestic Violence – How Many More Rhonda Bakers Have to Die?
Rhonda Baker’s story is an all too familiar one. It’s disturbingly plagued with all of the ‘obvious’ elements of a typical partner violence situation that resulted in her death. 31-year old Onitolosi Etuini Atiai Latu was recently sentenced to a...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 5 to 11 August 2019
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The Offence of Sexual Assault in New South Wales A Sydney doctor has been sentenced to a minimum of 11 years in prison after being...
Government’s Union-Busting Laws Will Cement Wage Stagnation
Australia has some of the most restrictive industrial relations (IR) laws in the Global North. In contravention of international labour standards, these anti-protest laws determine when actions can take place, provide enhanced abilities to stifle them, and curb unions from...
People, Not Just Numbers. Missing Persons’ Week
For many of us, they’re just sad headlines, but for the families of those who’ve gone missing, the trauma of uncertainty can be permanent. Every day in Australia, people disappear without a trace. Which is hard to fathom in this...
Occupy Sydney on the Extinction Rebellion: The Lessons Learnt
Tuesday saw Extinction Rebellion (XR) protesters taking to the Brisbane streets with the aim of causing peaceful disruption to bring about societal change, so that a global climate catastrophe can be averted. And over 70 rebels were arrested, as they...
Public Sector Workers Can Be Sacked for Political Posts
Since 2013, Michaela Banerji has been fighting her former employer, The Australian Federal Government, in an attempt to defend her freedom of political communication - a freedom that is implied in the Australian Constitution. This week, she lost her case...
The Ihumātao Occupation: In Protection of Māori Land
The more than three-year-long occupation at Ihumātao in Māngere, south Auckland, has come to a head over recent weeks, with police numbers stepped up at the Ōtuataua Stonefields Historic Reserve, where the local Māori protectors of the area are camped....
Investigation Into Alleged War Crimes by Australian Soldiers Commences
The recent AFP raids were conducted as a result of a complaint by the Department of Defence about the leaking of documents which contain harrowing accounts of alleged war crimes perpetrated against civilians by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan. The former...
Saving the Rivers from Corporates: An Interview With Water Activist Bruce Shillingsworth
News of the environmental devastation taking place along the Barwon-Darling river system in north western NSW hit the city last summer, when reports of several mass fish kills near the town of Menindee made headlines. Part of the larger Murray-Darling...
