Police Officer Sent to Prison Over Fatal Collision
An officer who crashed while speeding to a non-urgent call killing a man and leaving his wife with permanent injuries has been sentenced to three years in prison. Former Tasmanian police officer, Aaron Bonner, was responding to a non-urgent call...
The Link Between Rising Authoritarianism and the Protection of Big Business
NSW premier Dominic Perrottet has done quite a good job of presenting himself as something of a “swell guy”, despite the fact he’s an extreme ultraconservative who has just overseen the passing of the most draconian anti-protest laws in any...
Disturbing New Crime Trend Goes Viral on Social Media
The New South Wales Police Force has established a dedicated unit to investigate and prosecute a new criminal craze that is said to have been sweeping through the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie area in recent weeks. According to police, young...
Rights-Based NGO Rates Political Parties on Trade Justice
Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) is a mechanism often incorporated into free trade agreements, which provides corporations with specific rights that allow them to sue governments if their business interests are affected by decisions made by local authorities that are adverse to...
The War Against First Nations Hasn’t Ended, It’s Just Become More Subtle
“I didn’t do it. That was 200 years ago. It’s not my fault” has been a common sentiment expressed amongst Anglo Australians for decades, and, although fading, most continue to abide by it as they concurrently reap the benefits of...
NSW Regional Health Crisis: Emergency Rooms Without Doctors, Cooks Caring for Patients, Systemic Misdiagnoses and Critical Errors
Cooks looking after patients and emergency departments without doctors - this is the current state of parts of the New South Wales Regional Health System, according to a recent parliamentary inquiry. In its final report, the inquiry uncovered woeful inadequacies...
“We Have a Conservative Anti-Protest Consensus in Politics”, Says Legal Observers NSW’s Anastasia
Protest is an exceptionally important part of the NSW liberal democracy, especially considering how it works: citizens get to vote every four years, and from there, for the most part, the government tries to ignore their desires and opinions, unless...
Protecting the Pristine Takayna/Tarkine: An Interview With Bob Brown Foundation’s Scott Jordan
Right now, Chinese mining company MMG is attempting to construct a huge heavy metal waste dump in the middle of the takayna/Tarkine Rainforest: the nation’s largest surviving temperate forest of its kind. This means acid-producing tailings from the nearby Rosebery...
Out of Increasing Discontent in Government, Dawns the Hope for Liberties Forged
“How good is Australia?” posed prime minister Scott Morrison in his election victory speech on 18 May 2019. And in the next breath he asked, “And how good are Australians?” Whilst these questions might have resonated with the same meaning for...
When Can Police Shoot to Kill?
Police in the Northern Territory have been accused of failing to provide important evidence in the criminal prosecution of a young Indigenous man they tasered and repeatedly shot earlier in Darwin on 8 March 2022. The story so far Twenty...
