Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 30 January to 5 February 2023
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme: The Right to Know or an Unjustified Intrusion on Privacy? The scheme would enable anyone to quickly ascertain whether someone has...
Attorney General to Reform National Security Secrecy Orders, as Closed Trials Continue
In its response to the findings of a review of national security orders that have been used by the federal government to cloak specific trials in secrecy over recent years, the Albanese government agreed in its 19 January response to action...
Sydney Calls Out Apartheid Israel in the Wake of the Jenin Massacre
Hundreds gathered before Sydney Town Hall on Wednesday evening in a show of solidarity with Palestinian people living in their occupied homelands, after they’ve suffered through some of the deadliest events and days in recent memory at the hands of Israeli...
Thorpe on the Shadow of Paternalism Alice Casts on the Voice
After coming on strong with talk of the referendum on the Indigenous voice to parliament as a means of empowering First Nations, the Albanese government, in its burgeoning approach to Alice Springs, is veering towards the paternalism and punitiveness of...
What is the Role of the New South Wales Education Standards Authority?
Controversial New South Wales Opus Dei schools are now under investigation by the New South Wales Education Standards Authority (NESA) after recent media coverage which raised concerns about the school curriculum. A story, which recently aired on ABC’s 4 Corners,...
We’re Taking Back Our Land and Future, Says Black Peoples Union’s Kieran Stewart-Assheton
The Invasion Day protests held in major urban centres across the continent on 26 January saw a determined rejection of the Albanese government-led proposal for a referendum on an Indigenous voice to parliament to be enshrined in the Australian Constitution....
A System in Crisis: Socialist Alliance NSW Candidate Rachel Evans on Radical Solutions
Transformed by the multiple crises that have altered many aspects of life since the last NSW election in early 2019, it’s a very different state that will approach the ballot box this March: one that has experienced a drawn-out pandemic,...
Protesting Pell’s Legacy of Enabling Child Sex Offences
As George Pell’s body lays in state at St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney in preparation today’s mass, there are tens of thousands of ribbons being tied to fences surrounding the church. The ribbons are intended as a reminder of those...
Employer-Paid Domestic Violence Leave is Now Available to Employees
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has taken to the airwaves to boast of his government’s passing of legislation which entitles those who are affected by domestic violence to up to 10 days of paid leave per year, replacing previous laws which...
Is It a Crime to Have Sexual Intercourse in a Public Place?
The atmosphere is heating up in Sydney, as our nation’s most populated city gets ready for World Pride 2023, an internationally recognised event celebrating the LGBTQ community which will run from 17 February until 5 March. The event will showcase...
