What Are the Penalties and Valid Reasons for Not Voting in Australia?
While the right to vote is considered a democratic freedom that millions of people around the world wish they had, Australians do not get a choice - or at least, they face consequences if they refuse or otherwise fail to...
Melbourne Mass Drug Overdose Provides the “Mandate” to Rollout Pill Testing
Eight festivalgoers were in critical condition following a mass overdose incident at Melbourne’s Hardmission Festival last Saturday night. And so widespread was the negative impact upon those who’d taken the same bad batch of pills that event medics had to...
“Hospitals Are Not Targets”: Sydney Healthcare Workers Continue to Call for Gaza Ceasefire
The ongoing genocide in Gaza is a crime against all humanity as it legitimises the killing of innocent children, civilian women and men, as well as the targeted killing of journalists and healthcare workers, so as to ensure the annihilation...
The Unreported Sea of Pro-Palestinian Humanity Continues to March on Sydney: 13th Week in Photos
No one contemplated the carnage Israel has been perpetrating on Gaza would be ongoing thirteen weeks on, as such was its scale to begin with that the magnitude of the humanitarian crisis that would be occurring right now would be...
“A Slow Burn Ethnic Cleanse”: APAN’s Nasser Mashni on the South African ICJ Genocide Case
South Africa stepped up just before the turning of the new year to lodge an application to initiate proceedings against the Israeli state, charging it with ongoing violations of the Genocide Convention, via the three-month-long wholesale massacre it’s been perpetrating in...
Disrupt Burrup Hub Advisor Criticised for Media Prowess: Interview with Jesse Noakes
Disrupt Burrup Hub arrived on the scene in January last year, capturing the nation’s attention as artist and activist Joana Partyka spray painted the Woodside logo onto the classic Australian painting “Down on His Luck”, in a move that didn’t damage...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 1 to 7 January 2024
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Local Laws Criminalise Citizens Partaking on Either Side of the Israeli Carnage in Gaza Hizballah claims that one of two Australians killed in an air...
How To Get an Apprehended Violence Order Dismissed in NSW
Having an application for an Apprehended Violence Order (AVO) made against you can be a stressful experience, especially if the grounds upon which it is based are exaggerated or simply untrue. But the fact an AVO application has been made...
Howard’s Greenlighting of Iraq Looms Ominously, So It’s Hardly Surprising Files Are Missing
With the UK troubled at home and unable to maintain its presence in Asia, then Labor PM John Curtin announced to Australia in December 1941 that, in the midst of the Second World War, the nation was turning to the...
Can My Employer Spy on Me at Work?
In August 2023, the story of a New South Wales woman who worked from home and was fired from her job of 18 years made media headlines and triggered debate about the use of surveillance in the workplace. Suzie Cheiko...
