Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 22 to 28 April 2019
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Sydney Court Hears Sexual Slavery Allegations The court heard that a sex worker was directed to “put up with” being spat on and hit by...
Public Drunkenness Laws Must Be Repealed
Tanya Day was asleep on a train from Bendigo bound for Melbourne on 5 December 2017, when a V/Line conductor woke her up and asked for her ticket. Disorientated, as she’d been drinking that day, the 55-year-old mother couldn’t find...
The Australian Government Abandoned Assange Long Ago
Australian citizen and Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange has been detained on remand, and in isolation, at London’s notorious Belmarsh maximum security prison for the last fortnight. His mother, Christine Assange, tweeted on Monday that so far, he’s been denied visits...
Sydney Police Officer Charged with Neglecting his Duty
A leading senior constable based at St George Local Area Command has been charged with four counts of neglecting his duties after failing to act on a complaint against a sexual offender who allegedly went on to sexually assault a...
Sail For Justice: An Interview With the Manus Freedom Flotilla’s Izzy Brown
The Manus Freedom Flotilla is about to set sail from the lands of the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation and take a two and a half month journey to Manus Island with the aim of drawing global attention...
Civil Disobedience Required: An Interview With Extinction Rebellion’s Miriam Robinson
Hundreds of police officers from other forces were called in last week to back up London’s Metropolitan police, as it tried to clear climate change protests from parts of the city that had successfully brought those areas to a standstill....
Commit a Crime While on a Visa, and You’ll Face Deportation
A South Australian man dubbed the ‘pig shed rapist’, who was found guilty of luring a backpacker to his hobby farm, chaining her up and repeatedly sexually assaulting her over a period of two days, and faces deportation after serving...
Lest We Forget the Futility of Gallipoli
Today, Australia collectively pauses to remember those who died in battle on foreign shores. It’s a day when the legend of the Anzac is celebrated and, as journalist Scott McIntyre and presenter Yassmin Abdel-Magied recently found, a day that can’t...
The Frontier Wars: The First Defence of Country
This Thursday, 25 April, marks the ninth anniversary of the annual Frontier Wars March in Canberra. This parade is a commemoration of First Nations resistance to the British invasion of the continent that began in 1788 and continued on in...
More Police Does Not Lead to Less Crime
New research undertaken by the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) has added weight to the argument that increasing the number of police officers does not lead to a reduction in crime. The study BOCSAR researched the impact...
