Point-Blank First Nations Custodial Shooting: Killer Cop Walks Free
One man holds down another who’s struggling, but the scissors the captive had struck the first man’s mate in the shoulder with no longer pose a threat. The guy who was hit with the household implement walks across the room...
Health Minister Bungles Allocation of Funds for Frontline Services
In what can only be described as a serious bureaucratic bungle, New South Wales sexual assault services are likely to miss out on a share of $80 million in funding handed down from the Federal Government. While NSW Health Minister...
The Morrison Government’s Targeted Persecution of Transgender People
Morrison’s never attempted to conceal his prejudice against LGBTIQ people. He walked out during the marriage equality vote, he’s said inclusive teen sex education makes his “skin curl”, and just after he swiped the top job, he termed school counsellors who...
Rain Bombs, Megafires, Drought: Morrison Guarantees Worst Yet to Come
The nation’s largest city, Sydney, became the frontline of the climate crisis for the first time ever in recent days, as floods that have been wiping out people’s lives and entire towns right along the eastern seaboard, suddenly gushed through...
Prioritising Social Wealth Over Corporate: An Interview With the NSW Socialist Alliance Candidates
The government can’t control the rain. But what it can do - and what it has been doing - is contribute to its severity. Indeed, the intensity of the climate-driven floods that have just swept through the east coast can...
Palestinian Race Complaint Levelled Against Government: An Interview with Birchgrove Legal and Nasser Mashni
Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) vice president Nasser Mashni has filed a case with the Australian Human Rights Commission, which is being described as landmark as it isn’t against any individual or business, but it’s been raised against the Australian...
Government Seeks to Undermine High Court Ruling that First Nations People Cannot be Deported
The High Court ruled in 2020 that First Nations peoples cannot be deported on character grounds. It specifically found that New Zealand-born Gunggarri man Brendan Thoms and PNG-born Gamilaraay man Daniel Love couldn’t be turfed out of the country, despite minister...
High Court to Determine Constitutionality of WA’s High Risk Offenders Laws
The High Court is hearing a challenge to the constitutionality of the McGowan government’s High Risk Offenders Act 2020 (WA) (the Act), which has been labelled “inherently racist” and is “already impacting vulnerable young Aboriginal men”. The challenge set to go before the...
Child Pornography Offences in New South Wales
More than 100 Australians have been arrested and charged with child-pornography related offences. The arrests were made as part of an international investigation that has been ongoing since 2019, following information that people were sharing child abuse material in a...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 28 February to 6 March 2022
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Should Parents be Held Responsible for the Crimes of their Children? The parents of a 15-year old who allegedly opened fire at a school will...
