Geoffrey Rush Smashes Telegraph “Out of the Park” in Defamation Lawsuit
The Federal Court has ordered the owners of The Daily Telegraph, News Corp, to pay Academy-award winning actor Geoffrey Rush $850,000 in damages plus a yet to be determined sum for economic losses, resulting from the publication of unproven allegations...
Berejiklian’s Moves Quickly to Consolidate Power and Silence Dissent
The Berejiklian government seems to have taken its election win as an indication from the NSW electorate that it has carte blanche over its governing of the state, as in a little over a week after its return to office,...
PM Promises Prison for Animal Rights Activists
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has reacted to a recent anti-meat protest by promising prison terms of up to 12 months for activists who publish information about farmers who are allegedly cruel towards their animals. A protest on Monday saw disruptions...
High Court Rules that Abortion Safe-Zones are Constitutional
Two anti-abortion activists have lost their appeals against Victorian and Tasmanian laws which prohibit protesting near abortion clinics. Kathleen Clubb and Graham Preston appealed against laws which establish safe-zones near abortion clinics. The conduct of the appellants was holding placards...
Raise the Rate: An Interview With the Australian Unemployed Workers Union’s Jeremy Poxon
The concept of welfare has its basis in 7th century Islam. In its modern European form, welfare provisions began to emerge in the 19th century. These were systems that acknowledged a government’s responsibility to provide for all of its citizens,...
Bum-Pinching Isn’t Indecent by Today’s Standards
A Western Australian Supreme Court justice has upheld the decision of a magistrate, who ruled that a 48-year-old police officer who pinched a woman on the behind did not indecently assault her, as prevailing social attitudes don’t consider this act...
Shortage of Criminal Lawyers in Remote Courts
It has been reported that children as young as 11 are being left to face serious charges without legal representation in remote courts in the Northern Territory, due to a shortage of criminal defence lawyers. Budget cuts The Northern Territory...
NSW Police Conduct Another Illegal Roadside Strip Search
Another Facebook post relating to a dodgy strip search carried out by NSW police is currently going viral. It’s the third such piece of social media content in as many months that depicts officers who are either unsure of correct...
Can Farting in the Workplace Amount to Bullying?
Sonia Hickey and Ugur Nedim An employee who claims he was bullied by a flatulating fellow worker has vowed to take his former employer to the High Court of Australia. The story so far Melbourne engineer, David Hingst, claimed $1.8...
Should University Cheats Face Prison Time?
Federal education minister Dan Tehan has proposed tough new criminal laws which would see students who submit exams and assignments written by others, as well as those who receive fees to write material which they know will be submitted in...
