Legislating to End the Forced Removals of First Nations Children in NSW
The policy of forcibly removing Indigenous children from their families is common to the settler colonial nations that were established by the British Empire, which are today known as the United States, Canada and Australia. In this country, the practice...
What is a ‘Conspiracy’ in the Commonwealth Criminal Law?
A Sydney man accused of serious drug offences is on the run from the police after allegedly disabling his ankle monitor while on bail. Northern Beaches restauranter Mostafa Baluch is alleged to have financed a major cocaine importation syndicate. He...
Workers Push Back Against Covid-19 Vaccination Mandates
More than 100 people have joined a legal challenge in Victoria against the state’s mandated vaccination policies. The policy of requiring workers in certain industries to obtain COVID-19 vaccinations has forced millions of authorised workers including construction workers, teachers, aged...
Morrison Is Detaining Refugees With Compromised Health Inside COVID Hotspot
As of Sunday evening, 23 of the 46 Medevac refugees currently being held long-term in the Park Hotel in the Melbourne inner city suburb of Carlton have contracted the Delta strain of the COVID-19 virus. Unlike other COVID outbreaks occurring...
Jury Trials and Defended Hearings Set to Resume in Greater Sydney
District Court jury trials and Local Court defended hearings are set to resume in Greater Sydney, after nearly four months of delays. At the start of the pandemic last year, courthouses all over the country had to close, leaving those...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 18 to 24 October 2021
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: NSW Supreme Court Rejects Challenges to Public Health Orders The court dismissed all of the challenges on all grounds, finding that the government’s COVID restrictions...
Police Routinely Breached Legal Rights During COVID, Reports Confirm
To say COVID policing has been overbearing is an understatement. The reliance upon the police to enforce pandemic restrictions on public movement and assembly in such a draconian manner, only added credence to the claims that lockdowns were a means...
Pru Goward’s Opining on the Poor Reveals Deep Political Class Prejudice
“So long as we keep looking at the billions of dollars they cost us, we will continue to dislike them, reject them and write them off,” says Pru Goward in relation to the poorest sector of the community. The former...
“A Sign of Weakness and Desperation”: Former ADF Major Cameron Leckie on AUKUS
“AUKUS is a sign of desperation or weakness, because you can’t understand the United States, without acknowledging that it’s an empire. All empires have a lifecycle. And the US is currently in decline.” For most Australians, the prime minister’s announcement...
Extinction Rebellion Cries Foul as the Liberals and Nationals Fumble on Net Zero
The Liberal prime minister and the Nationals deputy prime minister are currently in a political skirmish over how to reach a policy with a target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, after the pair have blatantly resisted taking...
