“Racism Does Kill People”: Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi on an Anti-Racist Australia
Australia prides itself on being a vibrant multicultural society. The nation isn’t so proud of its high levels of racism, however. But for some reason, those holding onto positions of governance - the majority being white and overwhelmingly male -...
Criminal Offences Relating to Filicide in New South Wales
The coronial inquest into the death of Hannah Clarke is well underway in Queensland. Over the past few weeks, the inquest has heard evidence of Hannah’s former partner’s violent tendencies, his increasingly erratic behaviour, the numerous formal complaints made by...
NSW Government Is Imprisoning Its Opponents: Shoebridge on New Anti-Protest Laws
The five days of strategic and targeted actions that Blockade Australia activists carried out last week, at chokepoints providing access to the nation’s largest container facility, saw climate defenders successfully hit the fossil fuel industry where it’s most effective: its profit margin....
Despite the Backlash, Blockade Australia Successfully Disrupts Port Botany as Planned
Blockade Australia has just completed its second major mobilisation, which, this time, entailed disrupting Sydney’s Port Botany over five days ending last Saturday. This involved eight disruptive actions that saw access points to the port shut down and nine climate...
Reports of NSW Government’s Mismanagement of Grants Continue
The New South Wales Government’s disaster management agency has come under fire in recent weeks - for its slow response to the flood crisis across Northern New South Wales. Now, Resilience NSW is facing a fresh round of questioning over...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 21 to 27 March 2022
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Kimberley Kitching’s Death Highlights ‘Mean Girls’ Culture in Australian Politics, Mainstream Media Claims The mainstream media has been reporting that bullying and harassment contributed to...
With the Climate Duty of Care Overturned, Extinction Rebellion Calls for People to Act
A May 2021 Federal Court ruling known as the Sharma decision, led Justice Mordecai Bromberg to officially declare last July that the federal environment minister has a duty of care to the wellbeing of Australian children when deciding on whether...
Rolfe’s Acquittal Highlights Australia’s Well Oiled Settler Colonial Machinery
The not guilty verdict delivered by an all-non-Indigenous jury on 11 March in relation to the trial of former NT police constable Zachary Rolfe for the November 2019 killing of 19-year-old Warlpiri man Kumanjayi Walker was simultaneously shocking and yet...
The Offence of Misconduct with Regard to a Corpse in NSW
A man has been arrested over the theft of human body parts from graves at Melbourne’s Footscray Cemetery last month. Detectives arrested the 40-yesr old man at a residence just 10 minutes south of the cemetery, where the stolen human...
Woman Sacked for Attending Freedom Protest Awarded Compensation
A NSW Government worker will be compensated after being dismissed for attending a ‘freedom’ rally and posting a picture of Gladys Berejiklian with a Hitler mustache to social media. In the middle of pandemic lockdowns last year, Sydney child protection...
