Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 10 to 16 October 2022
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Thailand Uses Efficient Transport Options, While Control and Revenue-Raising Prevail in Australia’ While Thailand takes advantage of efficient transport options, our governments and councils seem...
Ruby Princess Class Action Commences in Federal Court
The class action against Carnival and Princess Cruise Lines over the Ruby Princess disaster has begun in the Federal Court of Australia, with the court hearing that cruise line’s conduct was ‘not some accident’ but ‘amounted to negligent’, resulting in...
International Far-Right Monitor Identifies Australian Hate Groups
The US-based Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) last week released its report into Australia, in which the thinktank rips our nation - with its “history of far-right and white supremacist activism, often rooted in its colonial experience” - a...
Dunghutti Activist Paul Silva Calls on Wider NSW to Protest Record Custody Deaths
The NSW criminal justice system is killing more First Nations people than ever before. A total of 16 Indigenous people of various ethnicities died in the custody of either NSW police or Corrective Services NSW in 2021, which is the...
Dristi Nepal’s Parina Subba Limbu on the Rights of Women Who Use Drugs
Established in 2006, Dristi Nepal is a peer-led harm reduction organisation for women who use drugs, those living with HIV and sex workers. Since April 2018, the organisation has been running a needle and syringe program for women who inject drugs in...
Australia’s Focus on Punishing Rather Than Diverting Youths is Counter-Productive
A Queensland Children’s Court recently heard that a girl who was arrested in Innisfail in Queensland was not able to be transferred to Cleveland Youth Detention Centre in Townsville as the centre was at capacity and could not accept any...
Kids Continue to be Locked-Up with Hardened Adult Criminals in Queensland
In early May 2019, the ABC’s Four Corners Program aired The Watch House Files - an expose of Queensland’s practise of detaining children as young as ten years old with hardened and often dangerous adult prisoners in the state’s police...
Labor Says “F#*K Off We’re Full” to Medevac Refugees, After a Decade of Torture
The Liberal Nationals government tortured and imprisoned thousands of the planet’s most desperate people in facilities built on the soil of poorer nations for years because they arrived in Australian waters by boat seeking asylum, which is completely legal under...
Privacy Watchdog and Media Regulator Launch Investigations into Optus
Many Australians feel that large corporations and their executives have gotten away with flouting the law without sufficient consequences for far too long. And the recent Optus data breach has certainly added to that sentiment - with 10 million current...
Failing to Stop and Assist After an Impact Causing Injury, GBH or Death in NSW
A teenager has been charged with a string of driving offences following a car crash in Wollongong that police believe caused the death of a 12-year old boy. According to police, the 17-year old male was driving a stolen Holden...
