Victoria Police Set to Become Less Accountable Than Ever
The Police Accountability Project (PAP) in Victoria has had to severely cut its services, due to a lack of funding. The project has, until recently, been servicing about 400 people a year, but now, due to funding shortfalls and future...
NSW Labor Considers Revoking Draconian Anti-Protest Laws
Another wave of extreme rainfall and flooding is only just beginning in NSW. This seems inconceivable after the deluge of March was already repeated in July. Yet, NSW premier Dominic Perrottet’s “one-in-a-thousand-year” flood event is now happening for a third time...
Beyond the Material: Capturing Thai Spirituality in Photos
Thailand is renowned for its Buddhism. With around 95 percent of the population adherents, temples, or wats, pepper the landscape, and bright, orange-robed monks stroll the streets. There are two strains of Buddhism: Theravada and Mahayana. In Thailand, the former is practiced....
Diplomacy is Needed to Prevent the Possibility of World War III
Joe Biden warned last week that the world is the closest it’s been to nuclear war in the last 60 years. The US president made these remarks in relation to Russian head of state Vladimir Putin having repeatedly made threats to...
Thailand Uses Efficient Transport Options, While Control and Revenue-Raising Prevail in Australia
The traffic in the Thai capital of Bangkok is notorious for its congestion, especially at peak periods. During morning or evening “rush” hours, a forty-five-minute crosstown journey can take double that or even crack the two-hour mark. And we all...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 3 to 9 October 2022
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: High Times in the Land of Smiles: Some Snaps The demonstrated benefits of legalising cannabis should make our politicians question their continuing criminalisation of the...
At Kathmandu’s Hindu Burning Grounds, Death Is a Regular Public Matter
Standing amongst the burning funeral pyres at Pashupatinath on the eastern side of the city of Kathmandu, a person from Australia may be struck by the completely different approach to death Hindu people, who cremate their dead there, have. In...
Officer Charged with Fabricating Evidence, But His Victim Explains that Coverups Run Deep
When NSW police constable Daniel Keneally answered the phone at Newtown Police Station on 24 February 2021 to speak to the caller, Luke Brett Moore, neither man knew the other. Wanting to discuss this state’s police misuse of strip searches,...
UN Rules Australian Climate Inaction Is Violating Torres Strait Islander Rights
The UN Human Rights Commission found on 22 September, that the Australian government is indeed failing the peoples of the low-lying Torres Strait Islands, due to its refusal to take adequate action on the climate crisis, which in turn, is adversely impacting...
Hands Off Assange! US and UK Citizens Stand in Solidarity with Truth-Teller
Many had high hopes that current Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, would make good on his pre-election rhetoric calling for an end to the persecution of award-winning Australian journalist Julian Assange, by pressuring the United Kingdom to allow him to...
