The Grim Choice of the 2024 US Election Will Be Replicated Here Next Year
US president Joe Biden called for an immediate ceasefire to bring an end to the “humanitarian crisis” in Gaza, during a graduation ceremony at Atlanta’s Morehouse College on Sunday. Yet, this was just five days after his administration announced another...
Police Powers in NSW: A Summary of Criminal Offences in the LEPRA
By Vikas Puthiyedath The Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002, commonly known as ‘the LEPRA’, sets out many of the powers and responsibilities that apply to police in New South Wales. Scope of the LEPRA These rules relate to...
Australian Government Should Be Ashamed of Imprisoning McBride
Picture troops stranded in a foreign land, beyond watch or care of government back home, which is only concerned in looking effective. Consider these soldiers don’t know their aim in a foreign conflict, as neither do their leaders. And think...
NSW Crackdown on Domestic Violence: Police Blitzes and Bail Reforms
More than 550 people described by police as the state’s ‘most high risk domestic violence offenders’ have been arrested and charged with a total of 1,070 offences during in a four day police operation across New South Wales that ran...
Drug Supply Charges: Pleading Guilty, Remorse and Rehabilitation Can Significantly Reduce Sentence
A former AFL player has been sentenced to a full term of five years and four months in prison, with a non-parole period of three years, after being sentenced over multiple counts of supplying a prohibited drug as well as...
Bail Applications in NSW: Showing Cause and the Unacceptable Risk Test
Much has been made recently by the mainstream media about the supposed ease by which those facing allegations of domestic violence offences are granted bail and released into the community. But the fact of the matter is that New South...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 13 to 19 May 2024
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Systemic Criminal Justice Bias Sees Only Muslim Crime Designated as Terrorism Police are quick to charge Muslim teens with terrorism, but not a pro-Israeli man...
Crunch Time for Assange, Global Press Freedom and the Rule of Law
A final press briefing in regard to the extradition trial of Australian publisher and journalist Julian Assange was held at the Foreign Press Association in London on Wednesday, ahead of Monday’s determination of the British High Court, which will seal...
The Slow Drip Death of the NSW Festival Industry: A Targeted State Approach
The Australian festival industry is still struggling post-pandemic shutdown. Main stayer Groovin the Moo had to cancel its annual regional tour last February, while Victoria’s three-decade-old Falls Festival had to cancel its last New Year’s Eve event, with dozens more...
Zionist Who Planted Bomb on Pro-Palestinian’s Vehicle Could Soon be Released
A man who left a homemade bomb on a ute in the driveway of a Botany home in January, with a note attached threatening reprisal if the resident did not remove a Palestinian flag hanging out the front of his...
