What Information Comes Up in a Criminal Record Check?
Many employees across Australia require a criminal record check before they are able to commence employment. And those who wish to travel to, or work in, certain overseas countries may also be required to obtain one. Criminal history checks are...
Buyers Beware: Non-Existent Tickets for Sale
A 33-year old man from Queensland has been charged with fraud after allegedly accepting online payments for tickets to singer Ed Sheeran’s recent concerts in Brisbane and Sydney, but never delivering them. The current charges relate to two complainants, with...
Killer Cop Charged with Murder
The police officer who shot and killed unarmed Australian woman Justine Damond last July has turned himself in to authorities. Ms Damond was wearing her pyjamas the night she was shot dead by US police officer Mohamed Noor from the...
NSW Police Set to Harass Traffic Offenders at their Homes
New South Wales police officers will be randomly “visiting” the homes of traffic offenders as part of a strategy which police commissioner Mick Fuller claims is designed to deter them from reoffending. Knock knock, it’s police Mr Fuller has directed...
George Pell’s Committal Hearing: Some Sexual Assault Charges to be Dropped
Crown prosecutor Mark Gibson SC has foreshadowed that a number of criminal charges brought against Cardinal George Pell, Australia’s highest-ranking Catholic, will be formally withdrawn because the complainant they relate to is “medically unfit to give evidence”. It is expected...
New Police Watchdog Lacks the Funding to Investigate Complaints
The new NSW police watchdog has revealed that due to a lack of funding it’s had to forego monitoring a large number of already active critical incident investigations, as well as disregard more than fifty police integrity complaints. In a...
Dutton’s White Australia Policy
Home affairs minister Peter Dutton has once again sparked a furore over his refugee policies. On March 14, the minister revealed to the Daily Telegraph that he’s instructed his department to look into fast-tracking humanitarian visas for “persecuted” white South...
The Homelessness Crisis Is Growing
The 2016 Census homelessness data was finally released on March 14. It confirms what many already knew, that the number of people experiencing homeless in this country is on a steep increase. Indeed, 50 out of every 10,000 Australians is now...
Mentally Ill Disproportionately Killed by Police
Recently released statistics suggest that more than half of the people shot dead by NSW police over the past twenty years were suffering from a mental illness. The data was obtained by Greens MP David Shoebridge through the Government Information...
Government Prosecutes Manufacturer of Phone Encryption Software
The Chief Executive Officer of encryption software company Phantom Secure has been served with a criminal indictment in the United States. Canadian citizen, Vincent Ramos, and four of his associates built an $80 million empire developing encryption software used by...
