2016 Census Change: Another Attack on Privacy
The 2016 Census is hardly a forum you’d expect to become a battleground for civil liberties, but this is precisely what is occurring due to the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ (ABS) unprecedented plan to retain personal data. On December 18...
Childlike Sex Dolls: Safe Outlet or Encouragement for Paedophiles?
Earlier this year, Shin Takagi opened up to The Atlantic about the struggles he has endured living as a paedophile who has never acted on his attraction to children. He uses his Japanese company Trottla to sell lifelike child sex...
Social Media: Helping Police to Crack Down on Centrelink Fraud
Australia has a relatively broad welfare system - with the federal government funding around $150 billion per year in benefits - a figure that is set to rise in coming years with our aging population. But not everyone plays by...
NSW’s Anti-Protest Package: Unconstitutional?
Australian legal bodies and human rights advocates warn that New South Wales’ controversial new anti-protest laws pander to the mining industry, stripping citizens of their rights and granting police excessive powers. The Inclosed Lands, Crimes and Law Enforcement Legislation Amendment...
Bullying to Become a Crime
Bullying comes in all shapes and sizes: from toxic employees forming chat groups to mock and disparage colleagues, to students forming pacts to ignore or gang up on others, to physical abuse. The question of how we should best deal...
AVOs May Soon Apply Across Australia
Government initiatives have so far failed to stamp-out the epidemic of domestic violence in Australia. Last week, NSW Attorney-General Gabrielle Upton appealed to all states and territories to follow NSW in tracking the movement of domestic violence offenders to other...
Private Prisons Planned for New South Wales
Private operators will be invited to tender to manage at least one prison in New South Wales, according to Corrections Minister David Elliott (above left) Speaking this morning, Mr Elliott announced the NSW Government’s plan to allow the private sector...
Tips for Surviving a Law Degree
Just about start your first year of law school, or part way in already? Congratulations on your achievement so far – law is one the most difficult degrees to get into. You will be following in the footsteps of great...
NSW Government’s Attack on Civil Liberties
The New South Wales Government has attracted widespread criticism from civil liberties groups, after passing new ‘anti-protest’ legislation in parliament this week. The new laws, passed on Tuesday, will see increased penalties for protesters at mining and coal-seam gas sites,...
Government Tries to Help Police Avoid Investigation
You may have heard of ICAC, a NSW body which investigates corruption in a range of public bodies, including the police force. Victoria has a similar organisation called IBAC, or the Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission. Under the Victorian IBAC Act,...
