NSW Police May be Bugging the Phones of Criminal Defence Lawyers
The New South Wales Police Commissioner has avoided answering questions raised in Parliament about whether the New South Wales police force is using spyware to infiltrate the mobile phones and computers of criminal defence lawyers, regardless of laws which protect...
NSW Police Are Illegally Strip-Searching Children
She was sixteen years old and ready to enjoy the time of her life. Moments later she was naked, crying and alone with a police officer who demanded she lift up the panty liner of her underwear as part of...
Trade Agreements Pre-empt Dissent: An Interview With AFTINET’s Dr Patricia Ranald
Thousands of Aymara Indians held a series of protests in southern Peru back in May 2011, calling on the government to cancel the licence of the planned Santa Ana silver mine in the Puno region. The local Indigenous people asserted...
Ditch the Dogs: An Interview With Sniff Off’s David Shoebridge
The leaked recommendations of the NSW coronial inquiry into music festival deaths suggest that sniffer dogs be abolished at these events, as the evidence points to “a link between the use of drug dogs and more harmful means of consumption”....
Can Police Search Through Your Mobile Phone?
Despite it being a commonly held belief, police don’t actually have the power to simply walk up to someone on the street, demand they hand over their phone and then trawl through it. Rather, there are certain laws that officers...
Investigation Into Crown Resorts and Home Affairs Heats Up
The Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity (ACLEI), is stepping up its investigation into Crown Resorts VIP high-roller programme, amid concerns that some interactions between Crown and the Department of Home Affairs ‘raise issues of corruption.’ Hearings begin next week...
Assaulting a Police Officer in Potts Point Case Study
Two men and two women are facing court charged with assaulting police, after fight in Potts Point led to five police officers being injured. The brawl started after a man and a woman allegedly refused to leave the Flamingo Lounge...
Taxpayers Spend $30 Million to Keep One Family in Detention
A shocked Australian senate hearing heard earlier this week that the Home Affairs Department is spending $20,000 a day to keep a Tamil Family detained on Christmas Island while they await a decision on their future. The Tamil family made...
Commonwealth Bank to be Criminally Prosecuted
Last week, Australia’s largest bank, CBA, made headlines when it became the first major bank in the country to be charged with criminal offences after the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry (the RC)....
Justice for Mhelody: An Interview With Migrante Australia’s Lina Cabaero
Mhelody Polan Bruno died at around 10 am on 22 September at Wagga Wagga Base Hospital. The death occurred after paramedics attended an apartment the morning before, where they stabilised her. The 25-year-old Filipina trans woman had been holidaying in...
