The COVID-19 Delta Variant Has Entered Vulnerable Immigration Facilities
According to Refugee Action Coalition spokesperson Ian Rintoul, seven Villawood Immigration Detention Centre detainees were placed in isolation over the weekend, after they’d been exposed to a guard who tested positive to COVID-19. The news emerging from inside the detention...
Businesses Vow Not to Discriminate Against the Unvaccinated
Employers posting ‘jobs without the need for a jab’ and businesses making it clear that unvaccinated people are welcome to shop, exercise, drink and eat at their premises are finding a voice on social media. As New South Wales prepares...
Can I Be Refused Entry to a Premises if I am Unvaccinated?
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian recently announced that once 70% of residents in the state have both doses of a COVID-19 vaccination, certain ‘freedoms’ will be handed back to them– including travelling intrastate and attending restaurants, bars, weddings, funerals, gyms, sporting...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 6 to 12 September 2021
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Jarryd Hayne Faces Civil Proceedings for Sexual Assault The former football star’s victim is seeking compensation over the sexual assault. Click here to read the...
Sick Baby Trapped by Cruel Border Bureaucracy
The Queensland Government hit a new low this week, refusing to let a family with a sick child drive home from Sydney to quarantine at their isolated rural property, 250 kilometres west of Brisbane. Jessie Evans, her partner Billy Blacker,...
Teflon Gladys: Less Accountable Than Ever
Premier Gladys Berejiklian has announced an abrupt end to her daily 11am appearances before the press to provide the state with Covid-19 updates, and present her roadmap out of lockdowns. Ms Berejiklian says that from now on, relevant coronavirus information...
The Political Flouting of Pandemic Restrictions Is Anti-Democratic
In case you haven’t noticed, there are fast growing divisions within the community between those in favour of the use of pandemic border closures and lockdowns and those who oppose their imposition. Yet, the prime minister having breached these restrictions...
Will COVID Passports Be Yet Another Expensive Government Failure?
As the NSW Government ramps up its plans to incorporate “Covid vaccination status’ into the QR check in via the Services NSW app, security experts have found major security flaws in the Federal Government vaccination certificates, which potentially puts the...
American Civil Liberties Union Declares that Vaccine Mandates Promote Freedom
Over recent months, there has been a clear and increasing division between sectors of the Australian population who are either pro or anti the COVID-19 vaccination. But what’s an even more divisive topic is the question around vaccine mandates: the...
Berejiklian Ignores COVID “Ticking Timebomb” in NSW Prisons
At the onset of the pandemic in March 2020, it was widely acknowledged that an outbreak in the NSW prison system would be a humanitarian disaster, as crowded, enclosed facilities with a dearth of healthcare are prime environments to become...
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