Roundabouts in New South Wales: What are the Rules and Potential Penalties?
The New South Wales Government has invested heavily in building new roundabouts in recent years. They were originally touted as being a cost-effective way to manage traffic at intersections - cheaper to maintain than traffic lights and certainly more effective...
Dreyfus Convenes a Human Rights Act Inquiry: ‘It’s Time… Has Come’, Says Liberties Advocate
Australia desperately needs federal human rights protections, which is an understanding that’s been growing in the community over recent years. However, the Liberal Nationals are clearly opposed to such a move, whilst successive Labor administrations have merely flirted with the...
Should it be a Crime to Perform the Nazi Salute in Public?
In response to appalling conduct of neo-Nazis at a recent rally in Melbourne, the Victoria government has moved to criminalise the display of the Nazi salute in public - with a view to making it clear that a gesture under which...
Much of the Same: Federal Labor Continues to Criminally Prosecute Whistleblowers
The man who has accused the Australian Tax Office (ATO) of covering up serious maladministration will now face trial. Richard Boyle, a former ATO Debt Collector is accused of 24 offences - including recording and disclosing protected information he collected...
Victorian Policing of Opposing Protests Was Biased in Favour of Nazis, Legal Group Observes
As UK anti-transgender figure Kellie-Jay Keen was about to stage one of her divisive Let Women Speak events before Victorian parliament in Melbourne on 18 March, about 30 members of the National Socialist Network, the nation’s most prominent neo-Nazi group, mobilised in...
Magistrate Resigns Over Remarks About Sexual Assault Complainant
A Magistrate who told a sexual assault complainant that “she had put herself in the position” of being sexual assaulted and subsequently “had buyer’s remorse” has resigned following an investigation by the Judicial Commission of Victoria. The Commission ordered an...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 20 to 26 March 2023
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown - Articles from 13 to 19 March 2023 In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the...
Teenage Girls Charged with Detaining, Taunting and Brutalising Peer
Three girls aged 12, 13 and 14 have been charged with serious offences over an alleged brutal and prolonged assault of a 13-year old girl. The four girls, who are reported have been friends, were at a sleepover in Tewantin...
Packed Marrickville Peace Meeting Says, ‘No to AUKUS and War on China, Mr Albanese’
A crowd of concerned community members packed Marrickville Town Hall last Sunday afternoon, 19 March, to mark 20 years since the beginning of the war in Iraq and reflect on how lessons learnt from lies told then, might inform current debate...
Filming Police: National Justice Project’s George Newhouse on the CopWatch App
A bare-fisted fight club operating in the NSW Northern Rivers region of Casino has recently come to the attention of NSW police, which has involved local youths partaking in illegal street fighting events and then posting footage and stills of the brawls...
