The Creativity of Inmates: An Interview With Paper Chained Magazine Editor Damien Linnane
US Professor Angela Davis remarked in an interview with Democracy Now last December, that she was “absolutely surprised” that the concept of prison abolition has “entered into public discourse during this period”. Davis, a key abolitionist, and her colleagues hadn’t expected...
“Frankly Fed Up” With Unjust Drug Driving Laws, Says Legalise Cannabis’ Bernard Bradley
Right now, Legalise Cannabis Australia candidate Bernard Bradley is continuing to threaten the future of Pauline Hanson’s political career, as the pair are in a race to take out the final Queensland Senate seat. The fact that a single-issue party calling...
Peter Dutton: A Man of Hypocrisy and Double Standards
For many Australians, Peter Dutton’s campaign to ‘soften’ his image are a hard pill to swallow. This is particularly the case given that, as his public relations machine went into overdrive this past week, the Margaruppans - who are the...
Albanese Needs to Clean Up Our Nation’s Resident Deportation Regime
Leah Porter took her own life in Sydney’s Villawood Immigration Detention Centre on 22 May: a day after the Albanese government was voted into power. The 53-year-old mother-of-two from Christchurch had been in the centre for five months awaiting deportation...
Collaery Trial Date Set: Federal Government Continues to Prosecute Whistleblowers
The ACT Supreme Court last week set the date for the trial of Canberra barrister Bernard Collaery for 24 October this year. ACT Justice David Mossop did this despite the wishes of Collaery and his lawyer Philip Boulton SC, who consider...
Biloela Family Will Return to Their Community, But for How Long?
New Prime minister Anthony Albanese has made much of the Murugappan’s family’s plight over the past few years, often calling their detention and ongoing court battle with the Federal Government ‘publicly funded torture.’ He was explicit in the lead up...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 23 to 29 May 2022
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Australia Has Spoken: Greenslides, Triumphant Independents and Far-Right Rejection Australians have turned to independents and minority parties who call for climate action and a federal...
Dictator Dutton’s Disdain for Democracy: Part 1, Building the Surveillance State
Peter Dutton confirmed his candidacy for the leadership of the Liberal Party this week, and the public relations campaign to ‘soften’ his image has gone into overdrive. The so-called ‘hardman of politics’ says he is keen to show the public...
Albanese Gets Back to Business as Usual, But the Progressives Await
This week has been marked by a sense of new hope. With the fall of Morrison, no longer does the nation have to listen to the patronising voice of a glib leader rolling out one-liners with no real meaning, whilst...
Time to Legalise: Australia Demands Cannabis Law Reform
At the time of writing, Pauline Hanson’s seat in the Senate is in question as the votes for the last Queensland upper house seat are still being counted and are too close to call, as Legalise Cannabis candidate Bernie Bradley...
