Allocating Funds to Win Seats: Pork Barrelling is Just Politics, says Gladys
‘We throw money at seats to keep them’. During Gladys Berejiklian’s final day of providing testimony before the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption, the practice of ‘pork barrelling’ was front and centre. ICAC is investigating whether the former...
COVID-19 Vaccines: Raising Bars, Booster Shots and Widening the ‘Freedom’ Gap
Sweeping changes to the New South Wales ‘roadmap’ out of the pandemic, announced today, have devastated thousands of New South Wales people who remain unvaccinated. The previous information that residents who are not double-vaccinated would no longer be treated like...
COVID Restriction Breaches Were Driven by Police Enforcement, Report Finds
The measures that were set in place by the Berejiklian government in response to the outbreak of the Delta strain of COVID-19 were extreme. Designed to prevent the mass death that was seen elsewhere across the globe, the key approach...
US and UK Continue to Torture Assange, as Morrison Complaisantly Looks On
Lawyer acting for Washington in the appeal against the decision not to extradite Julian Assange to the US James Lewis this week provided the UK High Court with a written “package of assurances” relating to the Australian journalist’s welfare if...
Vaccination Discrimination: Medically Exempted Waiter Shut Out of Hospitality Industry
Over the weekend, the published story of a Melbourne waiter shut out of the hospitality industry despite having a valid exemption for the Covid-19 vaccine has highlighted the serious issues created by mandated vaccinations. After having a meningococcal immunisation some...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 25 to 31 October 2021
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Jury Trials and Defended Hearings Set to Resume in Greater Sydney Jury trials and defended hearings are set to recommence, with a number restrictions in...
Gladys Grilled Over Gun Club Grant
Telephone intercepts between former New South Wale Premier Gladys Berejiklian and her former partner, disgraced state MP Daryl Maguire have proved to be critical to the ICAC hearing over whether Ms Berejiklian engaged in misconduct by improperly intervening to approve...
Police Continue to Use Consorting Laws to Target the Most Vulnerable, Watchdog Finds
If a NSW police officer officially warns a civilian over the age of 14 to stop communicating with at least two convicted criminals, and the individual continues to interact with at least two of the cited past offenders on at...
Deputy President Will No Longer Hear Claims Regarding Vaccine Mandates
The Fair Work Commission’s Deputy President, Lyndall Dean, who expressed her views against vaccine mandates in a published judgement last month, has been banned from hearing vaccine-related cases and excluded from the Commission’s full bench until “she completes professional conduct...
Settler Colonial Justice: Constable Acquitted of Yamatji Woman JC’s Custodial Killing
Nothing protected Yamatji woman JC from a bullet fired by one of eight police officers who had surrounded the 29-year-old on a suburban street in the WA town of Geraldton on 7 September 2019, but the full force of the...
