The Decades Long War on Climate Defenders in the Global South Creeps North
Global Witness published its Decade of Defiance report in September, outlining that since 2012, one land and environmental defender has been killed on average every two days somewhere around the planet. Indeed, since the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015, 1,213...
The Law, Defences and Penalties for Unauthorised Use or Possession of Firearms in NSW
A man has been arrested after police allegedly found a modified firearm and drug precursors in his car. According to police, officers attached to the State Crime Command’s Drug and Firearms Squad were patrolling the suburb of Concord in Sydney’s...
The Wieambilla Shootout Exposes Systemic Issues, Warns Gun Control Australia’s Roland Browne
In the wake of the Wieambilla killings, Gun Control Australia has called on the Palaszczuk government to release the information it’s withholding relating to the recent massacre that occurred at a remote property in the Queensland Western Downs region. On 12...
Labor Must Act on Permanent Protection for All, Says Refugee Action Coalition’s Ian Rintoul
The Albanese government announced via the Herald early last week, that it will be granting 19,000 refugees, currently living within the community under temporary protection, permanent visas sometime in the new year. The 19,000 refugees in question are currently on temporary...
NZ High Court Rules that Supervising Deportees On Arrival is a Rights Violation
New Zealand High Court Justice Cheryl Gwyn, on 19 December, released her ruling relating to an NZ born man who was deported from Australia, under the terms of the character test contained in section 501 of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth). The...
Failure to Label the Wieambilla Far Right Killings as Terrorism is Unacceptable
The decision of Queensland police not to classify the Wieambilla killings as terrorist in nature strays from the evidence already available to the public, although it does follow the habit of Australian authorities not to classify anything but nonwhite Islamic-related...
The History of Laws Regulating Sex Work
Sex work is perhaps more commonly known around the world as ‘prostitution’; an outdated term which demeans a sector of the workforce so established and fundamental to societies regardless of religion, culture or custom that it is believed to one...
The Law, Defences and Penalties for Break and Enter Offences in New South Wales
Two men are facing criminal charges after an alleged home invasion that left the occupant severely injured. According to police, emergency services were called to a home on Luxford Road in Letheridge Park near Mt Druitt in Sydney’s West at...
Mick Fuller’s Failure to Disclose Horse Ownership Amounted to Wrongdoing, Police Watchdog Finds
Former NSW police commissioner Mick Fuller announced in February this year that following his resignation from the position of top cop the month prior, he was amongst the frontrunners for a seat on the board of Racing NSW. But the ABC put...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 19 to 25 December 2022
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The Offence of Failing to Stop after an Impact Causing Death in New South Wales A truck driver is facing court for failing to stop...
