Commonwealth Offences Relating to Dealing in Proceeds of Crime in Australia
A Sydney lawyer has been sent to prison for 12 years over his part in the multi-million dollar Plutus Payroll tax fraud scheme. He is the sixth person to be convicted and sentenced over the fraud, which has been dubbed the...
Christian Thugs Attack Nonviolent Trans Rights Demonstrators at One Nation Rally
Hundreds of Christian Lives Matter members descended upon a group of Community Action for Rainbow Rights (CARR) activists holding a nonviolent protest a block away from a church hall in southwest Sydney, where One Nation NSW leader Mark Latham was delivering...
The International War Crime of Wilful Killing in Australian Law
A former member of the elite Special Air Service (SAS) is the first Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel in Australian history to be charged with the international war crime of wilful killing under Australian law. Afghanistan war veteran Oliver Schulz, is...
“No Time to Waste”: Harbour Bridge Protester and Firefighter Alan Glover on Voting for Climate
As Alan Glover was driving a small truck towards the Sydney Harbour Bridge on 13 April 2022, the volunteer firefighter of four decades told those watching a livestream that he and his fellow Fireproof Australia protesters were taking park in the...
Occupying Perrottet Over Coal Expansion: An Interview With Rising Tide’s Shaun Murray
Rising Tide Australia occupied NSW premier Dominic Perrottet’s electoral office in Epping a week out from the NSW election. And the group of around 15 climate defenders, half of whom were high school students, took over the space with the...
Victoria Moves to Ban the Nazi Salute
The tension between freedom of speech - which encompasses free expression - on the one hand, and hate speech on the other has been a topic of controversy for many years. Whereas proponents of unfettered free speech argue that a...
Australian Prison Life: Part 2, Having Incarceration as a Last Resort and Focusing on Rehabilitation
Australia in 2017 saw the former NSW inspector of custodial services, John Paget, label the state government’s $3.8 billion retributive and deterrence-based prison expansion program, providing an additional 7000 prison beds, as an “ expensive failure of public policy in...
Does ‘Gender Deception’ Invalidate Sexual Consent in New South Wales?
Between the years of 2012 and 2017, a string of cases in the United Kingdom involved determinations regarding whether a complainant could assert they did not lawfully consent to sexual activity as they were deceived into believing the other participant...
Far Right Actors Mobilise on Australian Streets Against LGBTIQ Communities
This last weekend saw a disturbing trend in far-right mobilisations in Australia’s largest cities, as Christian Lives Matter took over Sydney’s Hyde Park and the National Socialist Network gave the Nazi salute outside Melbourne Parliament House, with both groups targeting LGBTIQ...
Can a Driver Face Penalties for a Passenger’s Use of a Mobile Phone?
Using a mobile phone while driving is one of the most common traffic offences in New South Wales, and indeed across the nation. The rules that apply to the conduct have been tightened in recent years, with the scope of...
