NSW Government Knows We Need Evidence-Based Drug Law Reform. So, Why Block It?
The NSW Council for Civil Liberties posted an image last week of the premier with the word “Failed” stamped boldly across his forehead, with the reason being that Chris Minns had “promised a drug summit” preelection “to introduce meaningful change”...
Does the Nation’s Chief Lawmaker Really Want to Protect Public Service Whistleblowers?
In 2013, attorney general Mark Dreyfus, in an earlier stint in the role, oversaw the drafting and enactment of the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013 (Cth) to establish “a framework to encourage and facilitate reporting of wrongdoing by public officials...
“We Keep Us Safe, We Stop Arming Israel”: Interview with Palestinian Organiser Tasnim Sammak
The globe is bearing witness to the gravest atrocity since the Holocaust. And this, the Israeli state perpetrated genocide upon the Palestinians of Gaza, is underpinned by the same supremacist ideas and land grabbing proclivities as all settler colonial states...
White-Collar and Corporate Crime Run Rife in Australia, as ASIC Stands By and Watches
No one would accuse federal, territory and state police agencies of neglecting their mandated pursuit of enforcing the criminal law. But the criticism could be made about most Australian policing agencies having public image issues, as they do little by...
Stand With Senator Payman: As Islamophobic Labor Continues to Deny the Genocide
The official death toll of the Gaza genocide was reported as 38,100 over the weekend. But there are thousands more missing, presumed dead under rubble, as Israel has turned the 40-odd-kilometre-long stretch of land into a moonscape, where international humanitarian...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 1 to 7 July 2024
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Australia Is Obliged to Investigate Citizens Fighting for Israel, Says the ACIJ’s Rawan Arraf Our government has done nothing to warn let alone take steps...
Facing 35 Years Imprisonment for Disrupting Burrup Hub: Interview With DBH’s Joana Partyka
Right now, in the northern hemisphere, across Asia and Africa, the worst heatwaves ever have been playing out all at once. Temperatures have been creeping into the 50 degrees Celsius range, people have been suffering through above-40 degrees heat for...
“War Crimes Enabled Here”: Activists Call Out Albanese Subservience on Taking Parliament House
Four members of Renegade Activists appeared atop Parliament House in Canberra midmorning on Thursday to unfurl banners expressing what many amongst us have become increasingly distraught about over recent months, which is that the Albanese government is enabling genocide. “Today,...
White Supremacist Stabs Man in Sydney, But Terrorism Police Stumped as to His Ideology
White supremacist Brenton Tarrant, an Anglo Australian man from the NSW town of Grafton, walks into two mosques in Christchurch in March 2019 and guns down 51 Muslim worshippers. The killer produced a far-right manifesto. He had links to Australian...
NSW District Court Judge and Director of Public Prosecution at Loggerheads
By Emma Starr New South Wales District Court Judge Penelope Wass has lodged a complaint to the Office of the Legal Services Commissioner against the state’s Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Sally Dowling, citing a series of grievances that have...
