Final Rejection of Illegal COVID Policing as All Remaining Fines Are Revoked
New South Wales commissioner of fines administration, Scott Johnson, announced on Tuesday, 26 November 2024 that following legal representations made to him and the NSW police commissioner, he’d determined that the remaining 23,539 COVID-19 penalty notices that were issued to...
NSW Government to Revoke and Refund Remaining 23,000 COVID-19 Fines
The NSW government will revoke and repay over 23,000 fines issued during COVID-19 after garnering new and eye-opening legal advice that has changed its outlook on penalty notices. Several tens of thousands of fines for allegedly failing to comply with...
Wollongong Friends of Palestine’s Jet Hunt on the Ongoing Bisalloy Steel Community Picket
According to Wollongong Friends of Palestine organiser Jet Hunt, a “strong appetite for mass militancy” has taken hold across grassroots Australia, ever since Israeli forces unleashed a genocidal assault upon the Palestinians of the walled-in Gaza Strip fourteen months ago,...
“Deeply Ingrained Systemic Racism”: Wunna Nyiyaparli Elder Ailsa Roy on the Plight of Her People
The Wunna Nyiyaparli people of Western Australia’s eastern Pilbara region live close to land and their traditional way of life and customs, yet encroachments by mining companies onto their iron ore rich Country has resulted in a situation whereby they’re...
People’s Protest Scores a Resounding Victory Over State Repression as Coal Ship Blocked
A wave of euphoria swept across the thousands of civilians crowding Newcastle’s Horseshoe Beach at around 11.30 am on Sunday, as word spread that the 200-odd kayakers who’d managed to block the shipping lane into Newcastle Coal Port against the...
Criminal Offences of Injuring or Killing Australian Citizens or Residents Overseas
Six tourists including two young Australian women, both aged 19-years, are now deceased as a result of a mass poisoning in a popular South-East Asian holiday destination in Laos, after consuming drinks that are believed to have contained methanol. The...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 18 to 24 November 2024
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Human Trafficking Offences in Australia: More Common Than Some May Think A man has been sent to prison after taking his wife and children overseas,...
Local Court Magistrates to Be Given the Title of Judges in New South Wales
The legal system in Australia is often been out of touch with modern society. And, perhaps, calling Local Court magistrates ‘Your Worship’ - which was the case until 2004 - was a reflection of this. In an attempt at that...
Japan to Join Broadening US Force Posture in North Australia, Unless Trump Pulls the Plug
The 17th Trilateral Defence Ministers’ Meeting involving Australia, the US and Japan took place in Darwin on Sunday, 17 November, marking the first such meeting on local soil, and the big announcement of the day was that regular deployments of...
International Criminal Court Issues Global Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant
Six months after its first announcement, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on Thursday, 21 November 2024 in relation to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and that nation’s former defence minister Yoav Gallant in response to a swag of alleged...
