We’re Importing Medical Marijuana, While Police Are Raiding Local Producers
The first two commercial batches of legal medicinal cannabis products were imported into Australia earlier this week. The medicines were produced in Canada and are being held by Health House International in WA and the Pharmaceutical Packaging Professionals in Victoria. The imports...
Imprisonment Does Not Reduce Crime: An Interview with UNSW Professor Eileen Baldry
NSW is about to reach its highest incarceration rate for the past century. This week, the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) released the state’s latest custody statistics, which show that at the end of March the adult...
Child Sex Offender Cleared to Become a Lawyer
A former male escort who pleaded guilty to having sex with a minor has won the right to apply for admission as a lawyer. The law graduate, known only as KMB, successfully appealed a decision by the Queensland Legal Practitioner Admissions...
Attacks on Paramedics on the Rise
Queensland is the latest state to propose extra measures to protect paramedics following a spate of attacks on emergency workers. Three recent attacks have highlighted the dangers faced by paramedics who are trying to help those in need. Queensland critical...
Serco Wants to Run Public Housing in Australia
Large outsourcing companies are increasingly being given control of essential services in Australia, as our federal and state governments follow global privatisation trends. Serco is a British company that’s been making inroads into the Australian public services sector since the 1990s. Contracted...
Conviction of State MP Leads to Renewed Calls for a Federal ICAC
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has endorsed former Supreme Court judge Peter Hall QC as the new chief commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC). “Mr Hall brings world-class expertise and experience to this critical role,” Ms Berejiklian said. “NSW needs...
Schapelle Corby Set to Come Home
It has been reported that 22-year old Adelaide woman Cassandra Sainsbury is facing up to 25 years behind bars after being found with 5.8 kilograms of cocaine in her suitcase in Colombia. The personal trainer from Moana was on a...
When “Just Following the Rules” Becomes a Crime
The world watched in horror as footage of Dr David Dao being dragged off a United Airlines flight by Chicago Aviation security officers went viral earlier this month. Airline officials said employees were just following “established procedures,” but to many the...
Good Cop Sues for “Whistleblower Reprisal”
Suspended Gold Coast policeman Rick Flori has lodged a civil claim in the Brisbane Supreme Court, signalling the beginning of his lawsuit against the Queensland Police Service (QPS) for “whistleblower reprisal”. Mr Flori’s claim names eight police officers, including assistant...
A World Without Bars: the Prison Abolition Movement
The transatlantic slave trade existed for well over three hundred years, with European nations abducting millions of people from Africa and taking them to colonies in the Americas to be sold into involuntary servitude. Indeed, the wealth of the United States...
