Road Fatalities on the Rise Despite COVID Lockdowns
Despite Covid lockdowns right across the country for large chunks of last year and the year before, road fatalities are on the rise. The pressure is now on governments at both the state and federal level to reassess road safety...
The Queen Is “Completely Anathema” to Australia: CLA’s Bill Rowlings on a Republic
A first-time visitor on arrival to Australia, might question why Queen Elizabeth II is on the back of all the coins. Truth be told, however, a lot of locals, when catching a glimpse of her head on the back, wonder...
Calls to Legalise eScooters and to Increase Power and Speed Caps for eBikes in NSW
The New South Wales Productivity Commission has long urged a review of laws regulating eBikes and eScooters, citing economic, environmental, and public health benefits. Now, in 2025, these calls are being answered – with the NSW Government moving closer to...
US Votes Against UN Adopted Anti-Nazi Resolution, While Australia Abstains
The 76th session of the UN General Assembly last week adopted a resolution on “combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance”. Initiated by the Russian...
Imagining Prison Abolition Is Not Difficult, Says Sisters Inside’s Debbie Kilroy
When the British arrived by boat to colonise this continent in 1788, it was all about incarceration. The First Fleet brought with it large numbers of inmates, military officers and a foreign law system with carceral punishment as an integral...
NSW Set to Criminalise Coercive Control
The New South Wales Government will soon begin drafting legislation aimed at criminalising coercive control. The new laws will create a standalone criminal offence for coercive control, in an attempt to deter such conduct and make it clear that such...
NSW Government Backflips on Speed Camera Warning Signs
The New South Wales Government is set to re-introduce speed camera warning signs across the state from February next year - backflipping on its November 2020 decision to take the signs off the road. The removal of warning signs was...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 13 to 19 December 2021
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: NSW Police Officer Found Guilty of Perjury A police officer who lied in court to support false sexual assault claims by his partner has been...
Rights Infringements Are Likely to Worsen in an Era of Mounting Crises
As the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically revealed, government responses to crises result in the winding back of citizens’ rights. And this unleashing of emergency powers, coupled with the withdrawal of freedoms, exposes the bare bones of the body politic. The...
Morrison Legislates to Enhance the Mass Deportation of Residents
Fortress Australia champion and prime minister of the nation Scott Morrison oversaw the passing of a raft of amendments to the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) in November 2014. These served to strengthen the character test set out in section 501...
