Court Reduces Sentence for Customs Officer Turned Tobacco Smuggler
It was around March 2017 when ex-Australian Border Force (ABF) customs official Johayna Merhi and current ABF senior customs officer Craig Eakin agreed to assist the Jomaa crime syndicate with their illicit large-scale tobacco importation operation. Unbeknownst to the pair...
Century-Old Anti-War Warning About the 1 Percent Still Rings True Today
A racket is a way of profiteering from an operation in a dishonest manner. According to Smedley D Butler, “only a small ‘inside’ group knows what” a racket’s about. It usually involves making money for the few at the expense...
How Do You Rate Morrison’s Performance in 2019?
If the Australian public was to give the Morrison government a report card for the year, the scores would - most likely - come in well below average on a number of pressing social issues. Sadly for many, our ‘lucky...
NSW Government Silences Police Watchdog
NSW special minister of state Don Harwin announced on 23 December that the head of the sole state police watchdog former NSW Supreme Court Justice Michael Adams QC will be stood down at the time that his three year contract...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 23 to 29 December 2019
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: “The Liar From the Shire”: Thousands March Demanding Action from Morrison Thousands have marched across the Harbour Bridge calling on our absent prime minister to...
Indonesia Pressures Foreign Teachers to Take ‘Gay Test’
The Indonesian government is putting pressure on foreign teachers to take a test which it says can determine whether a person has ‘abnormal’ sexual desires. Reports suggest that the exam ask questions such as “agree or disagree: I would feel...
How Does the NSW Demerit Point Suspension Scheme Work?
At around 1 am on Christmas day this year, NSW Central West highway patrol officers pulled over a Nissan Skyline on the Newell Highway near Parkes to randomly breathalyse the driver. However, on checking the details of his licence, officers...
Police Abuse Powers at Kirribilli: An Interview With Greens MLC David Shoebridge
As rumours circulated about the PM having perhaps taken off to Hawaii for a holiday with his family as a well set in nationwide bushfire crisis continued, hundreds of student climate activists gathered out front of Kirribilli House on 19...
Should the Age of Criminal Responsibility in Australia be Raised?
During the 12 month period 2017-2018, more than five-and-a-half thousand young people aged 10 and over were under youth justice supervision on an average day. Eighteen percent were in detention and, of those , 60% were unsentenced. Half were Indigenous....
The Injustice in Chile Continues: An Interview With Pinochet-Era Activist Paula Sanchez
After more than two months of protests, the mass movement of grassroots Chileans calling for system change continues. And while the nation is often held up as a beacon of economic prosperity, those demonstrating are the overwhelming majority, who don’t...
