Displaced People Numbers Escalate Globally: An Interview With IMA’s Professor Bruno Di Biase
In its June-released Global Trends Forced Displacement Report in 2021, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) revealed that there were 89.3 million displaced persons globally at the end of last year. These figures are part of an escalating trend...
Professor Launches Legal Proceedings Against Queensland Police
The Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal is currently deliberating upon a case brought by renowned author, academic and activist Professor Chelsea Watego against two Queensland police officers, accusing them of discrimination perpetrated during an arrest. On arrival at a Brisbane nightclub...
Police Threaten to Taser Father at His Home Over Alleged Driving Offence
The Queensland Police Service (QPS) has come under fire for attending a father’s home and threatening him with a taser, over an alleged driving offence, which was later thrown out of court when police failed to produce any evidence. Video...
Road Safety Body Proposes Driving Ban on Males Under 21
A peak road safety body is calling on the New South Wales State Government to prohibit males from being issued with driver licences before they reach the age of 21 years. The proposal by The Australasian College of Road Safety...
King Charles III: Why Is This Man the Australian Head of State?
Australian governor general David Hurley proclaimed Charles Philip Arthur George, or King Charles III, the nation’s head of state at Parliament House in Canberra on Sunday. Steeped in the pomp and ceremony of an empire now thoroughly decayed, the proceedings...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 5 to 11 September 2022
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Sentence Quashed After Lawyer Enters Guilty Pleas on Behalf of Client Without Instructions The appeal court quashed the defendant’s pleas of guilty after finding his...
What is a Queen’s Counsel, King’s Counsel and Senior Counsel in Australia?
With the passing of Queen Elizabeth II and the accession of King Charles III to the throne, some of Australia’s most esteemed barristers - formerly referred to as Queen’s Counsel (QCs) - will now be called King’s Counsel (KCs). KCs...
Muay Thai: The Combat Sport Drawing Foreign Competitors to Thailand
It was standing room only at the Phetch Buncha Muay Thai Stadium in Thailand’s Samui last Wednesday night, and the theme to 1976’s Rocky and Survivor’s Eye of the Tiger rang out on constant repeat as the crowd waited for...
State-Captured Albanese Ends the Climate Wars With Gas Expansion
The Albanese government successfully saw its Climate Change Bill 2022, the fabled piece of legislation to “end the climate wars”, passed through the upper house on Thursday, meaning the nation has legislated for a 43 percent emissions reduction on 2005 levels...
F#*k the Greenslide: Albanese Gets into Bed with Dutton on National Security
The twilights years of the Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison government were marked by the realisation that the framework of national security and terrorism laws passed over the last decades had become so broad that the much-warned-of implications for regular civilians were starting to...
