Dutton Slammed for Locking Up a Blind, Mentally Ill Refugee for a Decade
A decision made by the Federal Court of Australia on Christmas Eve could have huge implications for large numbers of refugees locked up by the Australian government. For many years, there have been concerns about the arbitrary power the Home...
What is Stalking in New South Wales?
The SBS Insight program featured a segment some time ago about the nature and prevalence of stalking in Australia, with alleged offenders, complainants and police officers relating their experiences of such conduct and the criminal justice system’s treatment of it....
The Offence of Public Mischief in NSW
A professor at the University of Technology, Sydney is facing court for allegedly making a complaint to police that she was the victim of harassing letters, when she actually sent the letters to herself. Police arrested and charged UTS professor...
Catholic Priest Dies Before Being Sentenced for Child Sexual Abuse
Disgraced former Catholic Priest James Joseph Cunneen, who was found guilty of indecently assaulting six teenage boys in New South Wales in the late 1980s, has died before he could be sentenced. 60-year old Mr Cunneen was due to be...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 6 to 12 January 2020
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The Offence of Causing Bushfires in New South Wales A 79-year old man has been arrested and charged with causing four bushfires. Click here to...
Australia Forges Ahead With the Politics of Lying and Getting Away With It
Right on Christmas, the Federal Court ruled that despite official Liberal signage featured at two Victorian electorates during the last federal election being deliberately misleading, the party members who took out those seats can keep them. The three justice bench...
Posting About Politicians? The NSW Police Force May Have You In Their Sights
A Blue Mountains man was arrested in August last year, over allegations that he’d been harassing the local mayor and a NSW Labor MLC. The 37-year-old was charged with a number of offences, including stalking or intimidation with intent to...
Debunking the Myth that the Greens Caused the Bushfire Crisis: An Interview With MLC David Shoebridge
Climate scientists have linked the length and intensity of the current bushfire season - and the extremely dry conditions that have led to it - to human-caused climate change. According to them, the fire crisis is all down to the...
Consider the Garment Worker Behind the Price Tag: An Interview With BCWS’ Kalpona Akter
Increasingly, over the last decade, the labels on the cheap clothes at Australian fashion outlets read, “Made in Bangladesh”. And despite rising prices and inflation, the clothing coming out of the South Asian garment manufacturing powerhouse only seems to get...
Stop Morrison’s Straight White Privilege Laws: An Interview With CARR’s April
The current bushfire crisis has exposed how out of line the Morrison government’s prioritising of the Religious Discrimination Bill actually is. It’s the legislation that’s purportedly necessary in order to protect those of faith in the community. However, there isn’t...
