Offences Relating to Children Accessing or Being Shown Pornographic Material
Many people assume that once a person reaches the age of consent, they are free to pursue any (lawful) kind of sexual activity they wish, including participating in and/or accessing or being exposed to pornography. However, this is not necessarily...
The Laws Relating to Public Nudity in New South Wales
Free the Nipple is a feminist campaign with goals to make it legal and socially acceptable for women to be topless in public and to post topless images on social media websites such as Instagram and Facebook. But what’s this...
Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme: The Right to Know or an Unjustified Intrusion on Privacy?
New South Wales residents may soon be able to call a hotline or access an online portal to check whether the person they claim to be their partner has a history of domestic violence. The proposal builds on a pilot...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 23 to 29 January 2023
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The History of Murder: The Most Serious Offence in Criminal Law From Cain killing Able, to political assassinations, genocide and the serial killers of today,...
Doomsday Clock at 90 Seconds to Midnight, Due to Unprecedented Dangers
This week the Doomsday Clock crept the closest it’s ever been to the end of days, as the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the minute hand to 90 seconds to midnight on 24 January, with 12 am symbolising Armageddon....
The US-Australia Military Alliance Serves Washington’s Interests, Not Ours
This nation’s alliance with the US is often considered to guarantee Australian security. But the foundation of this strategic relationship, the 1951 ANZUS (Australia, New Zealand, United States) Treaty, provides no such assurance that Washington would step in to support us...
“Vote No to Referendum”, Say Grassroots First Nations, “We Deserve More than a Voice”
This 26 January marked 235 years since the British ships first docked at Kamay-Botany Bay with the intent of invading the continent today referred to as Australia, under the pretext of the doctrine of terra nullius, when clearly there were...
COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries Have Largely Been Ignored
There’s growing momentum around the acknowledgement of vaccination injuries despite them being ignored by big pharma, the medical profession, and governments around the world, including our own. As medical professionals point out, unless a vaccine injury was diagnosed immediately following...
Enshrine Protest in Law as Our Future Depends on It: Shoebridge on Protecting the Right
Human Rights Watch began the year with the release of its World Report 2023, in which it critiqued the disproportionate punishment the NSW anti-protest regime, which was established last April, results in for those who partake in demonstrating “without permission”. Indeed, 2022...
Rejecting Your Strawman: Dr Kaz Ross on the Rising Sovereign Citizen Movement
About a fortnight ago, footage of a young woman from Victoria being pulled over by NSW police was doing the rounds online, due to the driver’s strange responses to officers’ questioning. When the police officer standing at the driver’s window asked...
