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Australian Police Only Protect the Interests of Those Who Are Like Them

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“There is a structural problem with policing, and it’s important to understand that in the context of missing and murdered First Nations people, women and children in particular,” said lawyer George Newhouse. “Like other police forces in our nation, it...

Expanding the Offence of Hate Speech Will Unjustifiably Impede Free Speech

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The NSW government announced this week it is contemplating redrafting hate speech laws, as the criminal offence of hate speech enacted in 2018 has not resulted in a single conviction. So, rather than seeing the absence of convictions as evidence the...

Arrested Over Protesting Gaza: Wage Peace’s Margaret Pestorius on the NSW Antiprotest Regime

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Friends of protest group Wage Peace converged on Sydney’s King Street Wharf on 6 November, the eve of the three-day long Indo Pacific Naval Expo, to highlight that it’s the arms traders at events such as these that profit from atrocities...

How Much Will My Sentence Be Reduced If I Plead Guilty?

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A 64-year old man facing 23 allegations of historical child sexual offences, including having sexual intercourse with a person under the age of 16-years, has changed his plea from not guilty to guilty just hours after his trial started. The...

Grassroots Australia Mobillises Against Genocide: CoCo Speaks to Palestinian Hunger Striker

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A disconnect is apparent in the stance the Australian political class has taken towards the genocidal intent the Israeli state has unleashed upon the Palestinian population of Gaza, who, after 16 years of living in open-air prison conditions, are now...

Authoritarianism Accelerates: Associate of Assange Investigated Under UK Terrorism Laws

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Australian journalist and publisher Julian Assange continues to sit in London’s Belmarsh Prison, as he’s been remanded for more than four years on behalf of Washington, which reached out across international borders to arrest and then prosecute the foreign national...

Stop the Genocide: Fifty Thousand Strong in Sydney Call for Gaza Ceasefire Now

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Gathered for a fifth Sunday in a row, grassroots Sydney mobilised calling for a ceasefire to end the genocide being perpetrated by the Israeli state upon the Palestinian population living in one of the most densely populated areas on Earth,...

Prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann: Police Join DPP in an Attempt to Clear Their Names

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This time last year, then ACT top prosecutor, Shane Drumgold, and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) were engaged in a bitter feud - a slanging match criticising each other’s handling investigation and prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann over sexual assault allegations...

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 6 to 12 November 2023

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In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Criminal Offences Related to War Memorials and Cemeteries in NSW Damaging or desecrating a protected place such as a war memorial or cemetery is a...

Do I Have to Testify in Court? Explaining Witness Competence and Compellability

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Being called to ‘give evidence’ – also known as as testify – in a criminal trial can be a daunting experience; something you may not want to do for any of several reasons – you may be worried about saying...
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