Prosecution of Refugee Rally Organiser for Incitement Could a Have Chilling Effect
As Melbourne was in lockdown last April, the Refugee Action Collective (RAC) organised a car cavalcade to demonstrate against the ongoing detention of the Medevac refugees who were being detained inside Preston’s Mantra Hotel. After having been locked up on...
Morrison Drafts Laws to Placate Murdoch, as Google Threatens to Pull the Plug
Since the advent of the internet, data has increasingly risen in worth to the point that these days it’s the most valuable resource on the planet. Over that same time frame, consumers have become increasingly aware that digital platforms are...
Victoria Criminalises Gay Conversion Therapy
It’s caused tension and heated debate amongst state politicians, but the bill banning LGBTIQ+ conversion therapy has passed Victoria’s Upper House, and will soon become law. The Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill 2020 (Vic) makes it a criminal...
Council Confiscates and Destroys Homeless Woman’s Possessions During Lockdown
A local council in Perth has confiscated the meagre belongings of a homeless woman located at a public park where she had been sleeping, affixed labels warning of a $5,000 fine for illegal dumping before destroying the belongings. 41-year old...
Buprenorphine: Helping Prison Inmates to Stay Away from Illegal Drugs
Last year, New South Wales Corrective Services injected about 900 prison inmates a month with a view to keeping them away from illegal drugs. Injecting inmates with an opioid called Buprenorphine, or ‘Bupe’, is intended to help inmates who have...
Stop Handcuffing Refugees: An Interview With Doctors for Refugees’ Patrick Lukins
On top of all the other brutality successive federal governments have been meting out upon refugees and asylum seekers who arrived in Australian waters by boat, it’s also required that these detainees are handcuffed whilst being transferred from a facility...
The Offence of Fraud in NSW: Law, Defences, Penalties and Sentencing Considerations
A 58-year old former employee of a sports club in Southern New South Wales has been charged with fraud after allegedly obtaining more than $1.1 million dishonestly and by a deception between December 2020 and January 2021. It has been...
Save Our Public Housing: An Interview With Hands Off Glebe’s Emily Bullock
In November 2020, NSW housing minister Melinda Pavey informed residents of the Franklyn Street public housing complex in Glebe and the Explorer Street public housing estate in Eveleigh that their homes are slated for demolition to make way for high-rise...
Berejiklian At It Again. This Time Using Desperately Needed Bushfire Relief Funds
Pork barrelling extraordinaire Gladys Berejikilian has been caught at it again. This time the NSW premier’s government was found to have been distributing bushfire relief funds in a politically advantageous manner in allegiance with big boss the Morrison government. The...
Government vs Google: Will The Tech Giant Really Leave Australia?
The battle lines have been drawn. Google Search has threatened to leave Australia if the new media bargaining code is introduced. So what does the future hold for the search engine that controls 95% of the market? The proposed law...
