NSW Police Commissioner Gets Another Pay Rise
New South Wales Police Commissioner, Mick Fuller, has been granted another pay rise, at the same time thousands of residents, workers and businesses are in financial dire straits. Mr Fuller’s salary will be increased by a further 2.5 percent –...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 16 to 22 August 2021
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Victoria’s Ongoing Heavy-Handed Cannabis Policing Is Harmful Former senior police sergeant Greg Denham explains that, ‘[d]rugs aren’t the problem: it’s our drug policies that are...
Anti-lockdown Protester Sent to Prison
It has been reported that a Victorian man was sentenced to a full term of eight months in prison, with a minimum term of three months, after pleading guilty to offences related to organising yesterday’s anti-lockdown protest in Sydney. According...
“Australia Has a Very Particular Obligation” to Take In Afghan Refugees
As the Taliban swept back into Kabul last Sunday to consolidate its control over Afghanistan, questions are being raised as to how the Australian government is going to meet its obligations to those who’ve fled, are fleeing and will be...
Fears Raised as COVID Policing Deployed to Regional First Nations Communities
As the first cases of COVID-19 were detected in western NSW on 11 August, the primary concern was that the highly contagious Delta variant would commence spreading through local First Nations communities that have been identified as “vulnerable” since the...
NSW Government Cashes In on COVID Fines
Millions of dollars in Covid fines have already been handed out in New South Wales, and increased penalties are now in force across our state – which is likely to see the figure spike. 3338 fines totalling $4,409,800 were issued...
“We Can’t Police Our Way Out of a Pandemic”: Shoebridge on Intensifying COVID Policing
The NSW Parliament Public Accountability Committee held its first hearing this year into the NSW Government’s Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic inquiry on 10 August. The meeting was confrontational as NSW health minister Brad Hazzard repeatedly blocked questions that committee...
“The Spectre of State Power”: USYD Professor Greg Martin on Policing the Pandemic
At the end of the seventh week of the Greater Sydney lockdown, the NSW government was stumped. Instead of COVID cases decreasing under the law enforcement approach to the pandemic, they were steadily rising in tandem with the ever-increasing police...
Countering Corporate Capture: An Interview With Australian Democracy Network’s Saffron Zomer
The latest IPCC report warned that the fossil fuel-driven climate crisis is accelerating. Yet, in response, PM Scott Morrison stood before the nation last week to announce that rather than move away from fossil fuels, he advises expanding the industry...
Queensland Tightens the Noose on the Unvaccinated
Queensland Premier Anastacia Palaszczuk put another nail in the coffin of civil liberties democratic freedoms this week by refusing to allow unvaccinated people, including essential workers, to cross the border from New South Wales. Hundreds of people were turned away...
