NSW Police Bust Up Legal Campus Protests: An Interview With Student Activist Kelton Muir
For those who haven’t been following, NSW police has been enforcing an unofficial ban on protests since late July. Under the COVID-19 public health order on gatherings, outdoor meetings or assemblies “for a common purpose” of more than 20 people...
Don’t Bring the Drug Dogs Back: An Interview With Sniff Off’s Xiaoran Shi
On the evening of 10 September, the Sniff Off Facebook page alerted its close to 85,000 followers that police officers with a drug dog had been spotted at Blacktown Station. The post noted that this was the first time a...
Government Ignores Revered Report on Reducing First Nations Incarceration
The recent resurgence of the Stop Aboriginal Deaths in Custody movement has drawn renewed focus towards the overpolicing and overincarceration of First Nations people, as well as the systemic racism that’s leading to their overrepresentation in the criminal justice system....
The Law, Defences and Penalties for Stealing from a Person in NSW
A magistrate in Liverpool Local Court has sentenced a man in relation to an incident during which he stole $100 from a man in a wheelchair who had just withdrawn his disability pension from an ATM. 20-year old Jarrod Elphick...
The Law, Defences and Penalties for Carjacking in New South Wales
It has been alleged that shortly after 4pm on Monday, 14 September 2020, a man armed with a knife approached a silver Volkswagen which was parked in a carpark between Yambil Street and Canal Street, Griffith in the north-western Riverina...
Police Slam Man’s Head into Counter then Charge Him with Assault
A South Australian man who suffered a brain injury after a Senior Police officer slammed his head into a counter while he was in custody has spent more than three years fighting to have charges against him thrown out of...
Millions in Misconduct Payments: Shoebridge on the Paramilitary NSW Police Force
It’s been revealed that over the financial year 2019/20, the NSW Police Force or rather, the state’s taxpayers who fund them, paid out $24,164,658.82 to settle and defend police misconduct claims. And the number of civil cases brought against the...
Victoria Police Brutalise Citizens by Cover of COVID
Footage has emerged showing Victoria police officers ramming a civilian in the back with their car, before a number of officers swarm him on the ground. One officer stomps on his head, while other footage seems to suggest this was...
Victoria Police Ramps Up Offensive Against Protests
There’s something very disturbing about scenes from the anti-lockdown protest at the Queen Victoria Market in Melbourne over the weekend. There’s a series of video footage posted online which shows scores of heavily armed and riot squad police far outnumbering...
Australian Police Officers Continue Signalling Their White Supremacist Allegiance
The Queensland Police Service is currently investigating a matter that involves a photo of one of its officers that appears to show him wearing a patch associated with white supremacist groups as he was policing a Black Lives Matter (BLM)...
