Social Housing Building in Hard Lockdown: An Interview With Common Ground Resident Action Group
At 8am on 2 September 2021, residents living at Camperdown’s Common Ground social housing estate woke to find themselves in hard lockdown. So, from that moment on, they were no longer permitted to leave their units due to COVID-19 concerns....
Police Officer Challenges Government’s Vaccination Policy
A New South Wales Police officer is taking legal action against the state Health Minister Brad Hazzard over the COVID-19 injection, which for many is for all intents and purposes mandatory if they wish to work and lead semi-normal lives....
Morrison’s Father’s Day Flight: Are We Really All In This Together?
‘We’re all in this together” - it’s a phrase often used by politicians to suggest that everyone is equally affected by the current restrictions on movement and travel, and that each of us has to make sacrifices for the greater...
Banksia Hill Class Action Seeks Justice for Harmed Youth Detainees
Despite having the second highest youth incarceration rate in the country, Western Australia only has one child correctional facility, which is the Banksia Hill Juvenile Detention Centre located in the south Perth suburb of Canning Vale. So, some of the...
Jarryd Hayne Faces Civil Proceedings for Sexual Assault
Former NRL golden boy Jarryd Hayne was found guilty earlier this year of two counts of sexual intercourse without consent, also known as ‘sexual assault’ under the law, during a retrial which occurred after an initial jury was unable to...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 30 August to 5 September 2021
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The Offence of Intentionally or Recklessly Destroying or Damaging Property by Fire in NSW Police say the person who burnt down a COVID testing clinic...
The Offence of Possessing a Commercial Quantity of Unlawfully Imported Border Controlled Drug
Police arrested a 29-year old man on Thursday, 2 September 2021 at his home in Mt Colah in Sydney’s north, after raiding several properties including a storage facility in Hornsby. It has been alleged that the raids led to the...
Identify and Disrupt Laws Put Nail in the Coffin of Democracy
Dutton’s dirty work as home affairs minister continues to heighten the abilities of intelligence and law enforcement agencies, long after he took over the defence portfolio and commenced spruiking a profit-driven war with China. Passing through both houses of parliament...
Wilcannia’s First Nations COVID Crisis Continues to Escalate
The Berejiklian government has announced thirty motorhomes will arrive in the town of Wilcannia by next Monday. With the highest rate of COVID-19 transmission in the state, the north western NSW town is being sent the mobile enclosures to help...
Attempting a Hat-Trick of Successfully Suing Police: An Interview With ISUEPolice’s Luke Brett Moore
Prior to the onset of the pandemic and its accompanying COVID policing, issues around the use of strip searches by the NSW Police Force were front and centre, whether that was for their ever-increasing application, or the common breaching of...
