The Rights of the Elderly Are Ignored in Australia
Australian places of detention will soon come under much greater scrutiny, as local independent oversight bodies will begin randomly inspecting these facilities, with the aim of upholding the human rights of detainees. Inspectors will operate under the provisions of the...
Kill the Religious Privilege Bill: An Interview With Satanic Australia’s James Sutekh
The implications of the prime minister’s Religious Discrimination Bill, and its accompanying legislation, are so dire that people are turning to the Devil. At three recent Community Action for Rainbow Rights (CARR) rallies held against what’s been dubbed the Bigot’s...
Should Accused Sex Offenders Be Allowed to Use Dating Apps?
The ABC’s Background Briefing recently aired a story about the use of dating apps by sexual offenders. It described a case whereby a man used the dating app Tinder to lure victims before sexually assaulting them. The spiel on the...
Books, Cartoons and Dolls Can Amount to ‘Child Pornography’
Sexual offences involving children incite the highest levels of public condemnation. A conviction relating to child pornography – now referred to as ‘child abuse material’ under most laws – can affect not only a person’s freedom, but tarnish them for...
“First Nations People Are Bearing the Brunt”: An Interview With Water Activist Bruce Shillingsworth
Unprecedented is a word that many have applied to the weather conditions this continent has faced over the 2019-20 summer season. It’s been used to refer to the high temperatures. It’s described the scope of the water crisis along the...
What You Paid for the PM to Settle Into His New Home
Taxpayers have forked out thousands of dollars on kitchen and home appliances as well as wine for Scott Morrison and his family. New government audit reports for 2019 show how public money was used to purchase goods for the newly-elected...
Should Catfishing be a Crime?
The parents of a 20-year old woman who disappeared after becoming a victim of catfishing, are now calling for the behaviour to be made a crime in its own right. What is catfishing? Catfishing is generally the term given to...
NSW Government Shuts Down Police Watchdog’s Strip Search Inquiry
When the Berejiklian government announced in late December that it would not be renewing the contract of the head of the state’s sole police watchdog, there was widespread speculation it was to do with his strip search inquiry. As the...
Calls for a Parliamentary Inquiry Into TJ Hickey’s Death, Sixteen Years On
This Friday, 14 February 2020, marks sixteen years since Thomas (TJ) Hickey was thrown from his push bike and impaled upon on a fence in inner city Sydney, whilst being chased by two NSW police paddy wagons: Redfern 16 and...
Imprisoning the Innocent: The Causes of Wrongful Convictions in Australia
‘It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer’. These words of 18th century English jurist William Blackstone resonate just as loudly today as they did back then in relation to the magnitude of the injustice...
