Police Claim to Have Disrupted Drug Importation Rings
Yesterday, a 70-year old man came before Fairfield Local Court charged with commercial drug supply and participating in a criminal group after the NSW Police Force’s State Crime Command executed search warrants upon four homes across Sydney when they detected...
NZ to Implement Pill Testing, While Aussie MPs Bury Their Heads in the Sand
NZ police minister Stuart Nash said last week that he thinks independent pill testing tents are “a fantastic idea and should be installed at all our festivals”. He added that a “more compassionate and restorative approach” to illicit drugs should be...
Hung Jury in NSW Supreme Court Foreign Fighter Case
The NSW Supreme Court jury considering the ‘foreign fighter ‘charges of Kurdish-Australian journalist Renas Lelikan was dismissed on 6 December 2019, when it failed to a verdict after four weeks of deliberations. When the trial began in early October, Mr Lelikan’s...
Fascists Rallying over a Fallacy: Nazi Sentiment Seen as Acceptable by Some
Despite Australia being a well-established multicultural society, a group of Nazi sympathisers took to the waterfront last Saturday in Melbourne, once again holding on to the idea of a pure white Anglo past that never actually existed in our country...
Dozens of Breaches of the My Health Record Database Have Already Been Recorded
The number of breaches detected and recorded against the My Health Record database rose from 35 to 42 in the past financial year, raising concerns about who the information may be sold or provided to, and how it may be...
Politician to Charge Taxpayers for Attendance at Racist Rally
Footage from the ‘Reclaim St Kilda Rally’ over the weekend has emerged depicting extreme right-wing protesters giving Nazi salutes, and showing a demonstrator holding an SS helmet. The images are controversial to say the least, as was the presence of...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 31 December 2018 to 6 January 2019
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: New Laws Will Allow the Use of Military to Break Protests The federal government has introduced legislation which will allow state police to call upon...
Justice for Offshore Detainees: An Interview With National Justice Project’s George Newhouse
National Justice Project principal solicitor George Newhouse filed two class actions on 7 December with the High Court of Australia, claiming the federal government’s treatment of asylum seekers and refugees in offshore detention amounts to crimes against humanity and torture....
NSW Police Treat Strip-Searches As Routine Procedure
The use of strip searches by the NSW Police Force (NSWPF) has recently skyrocketed. Over the last four years, strip search use has risen by close to 47 percent, with 3,735 carried out in the year 2014-15, while 5,483 people...
Man Imprisoned for Buying Drugs on Dark Web
A former A-grade Darwin rugby league player has been sent to prison for supplying drugs in the form of hundreds of MDMA tablets sent through the ‘dark web’. The Supreme Court found that 27 year-old plumbing assistant and under-eights coach,...
