Morrison’s Secret Concentration of Power Highlights Flaw in Our Democracy
Although it may not be strictly against the law, it is unsettling to many that former Prime Minister Scott Morrison instructed Governor-General David Hurley (pictured to the right) to appoint him to five ministries, including the powerful positions of Treasury...
NSW Police Claim Ignorance of the Law, As They Continue to Illegally Strip-Search Kids
More than 4,000 strip searches were carried out in New South Wales between July 2020 and May 2022 - 100 of them on children and young people. The alarming figures include more than 100 days of lockdown during the Covid...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 15 to 21 August 2022
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The Offence of Displaying a Nazi Symbol by a Public Act Without Reasonable Excuse The NSW government has criminalised the public display of Nazi symbols,...
NSW Premier Vows to End Bullying and Harassment in State Parliament
New South Wales Premiser Dominic Perrottet has vowed to put an end to the vitriol and toxicity in State Parliament, issuing a directive to ministers this week to cease inappropriate behaviours towards their colleagues, or face severe consequences including the...
Morrison’s Ministerial Deceits Exemplify a Democracy in Crisis
The revelations that Scott Morrison was moonlighting as a shadow minister holding five extra portfolios other than his own, have not only laid bare the extent to which authoritarian tendencies have crept into government, but they also indicate that recent...
Calls for PM to Keep Promise Regarding War Powers Reform
With a bill calling for change on how our nation enters an overseas conflict back on the Senate agenda for debate, Australians for War Powers Reform (AWPR) are calling on the Albanese government to follow through on its preelection promise to...
Anglican Church Accused of Using Taxpayer Funds to Pay Child Sexual Abuse Claims
The Anglican Church has been accused of using taxpayer funds earmarked for aged care to meet its legal liability for historical child sexual abuse. Restructure The quick history is this: In 2016, the Anglican Church Sydney Diocese shifted all of...
“Taking Back Control”: Greens MLC Abigail Boyd on Nationalising the Energy Sector
Crises linked to our use of fossil fuels have become an everyday occurrence. If it’s not drought then it’s megafires or more recently, it’s the ongoing floods, and since the Morrison government dropped us in it, it’s the crisis in...
A Secret Consolidation of Power: Morrison Trashes Our Democratic System
The prime ministership wasn’t enough for Scott Morrison. Indeed, what’s become clear over recent days is he sought to secretly control other key ministries in the background, which gave him the ability to override any decisions the publicly sworn in...
The Commonwealth Offence of Possessing, Controlling Producing or Supplying Child Abuse Material
The New South Wales Police Force recently reported that on 22 May 2022, a 55-detective senior constable attached to a specialist command was arrested and charged with sexual assault, following an investigation by officers attached to the Professional Standards Command....
