Big Australian Retailers Sprung Collecting Customer’s Faceprints
In a move right out of former Liberal home affairs minister Peter Dutton’s playbook, a number of Australian retailers were recently found to be utilising biometric facial recognition technology to capture digital “faceprints” of customers that can be matched to...
Australian Imams Call Out Beijing’s Oppression of the Uyghur People
The Australian National Imams Council (ANIC) released a statement last Friday, calling out the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) decades-long persecution of the Uyghur people in their homelands, which has only been intensifying over recent years. The Uyghurs are a Central Asian...
The Offence of Giving False or Misleading Information to a Public Authority in NSW
Now former New South Wales police Commander Michael Rowan has been sentenced to 8 months in prison with a non-parole period of six months after pleading guilty to two counts of knowingly giving false or misleading evidence to a public...
Australian Territories Could Be Given the Right to Introduce Euthanasia Laws
Two Federal Labor backbenchers have introduced a Bill which could end to the Commonwealth’s paternalistic ban on the Territories legalising the right to die within their borders. If passed, the will give the territories greater autonomy in the area of...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 25 to 31 July 2022
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Class Action Commenced Against Police Over Illegal Strip Searches A class action has been launched against the NSW Police Force over the illegal strip searching...
Sydney Teenagers Charged with Murder
Three Sydney teenagers have been charged with murder after the fatal stabbing of a 16-year old boy which police believe may have been the result of an argument over a girl. Police and emergency services were called to a home...
As NYC Warns Residents to Be Prepared, Nuclear War Is Closer Than Ever Before
Earlier this month, the New York City Office of Emergency Management released a short public service announcement warning residents in the biggest city in the United States of what they should do in the case of a nuclear attack. The...
Attorney General to Restore Human Rights Commission, After Coalition Destroyed It
Following his decision to drop the prosecution against ACT barrister Bernard Collaery, federal attorney general Mark Dreyfus is continuing to clean up the deplorable condition nine years’ worth of Coalition chief lawmakers left the nation’s legal affairs in. On the...
The Sun Has Quietly Set on the NT Intervention, or Has It?
Considering the Howard government deployed ADF troops to remote Aboriginal communities in June 2007 to implement the NT Intervention, the brief 17 June post on a federal agency website announcing the main legislation facilitating the policy has just expired seems...
Sex Work as Work Is a Feminist Issue, Says Rights Activist Julie Bates AO
Writer/director Victoria Midwinter Pitt’s I’m With Her continues play to sell-out audiences around the country. The piece explores the journeys of resistance taken by eight pioneering women in patriarchal Australia through a #MeToo lens. Amongst the voices of the women that...
