“The Coal Industry is Dead”: An Interview With Miner Turned Activist Micah Weekes
At around 6 am on 13 September last year, anti-coal protester Micah Weekes climbed on top of a 13,000 tonne freight train on Sandgate Bridge, Newcastle, with the aim of preventing it and other coal trains from making it to...
Empowering First Nations Kids to Hold Police Accountable: An Interview With ALS’ Jeremy Styles
NSW authorities had 237 youths detained in state juvenile justice centres in September this year, according to NSW Bureau of Crimes Statistics and Research figures. And of these young inmates, 105 were First Nations youths, which accounts for 44 percent...
The Wild Horses Sting? Police Breath and Drug Test Patrons Evacuating Festival
At around 9.30 am on Monday 9 December, word went around punters camped out at the Wild Horses festival in Victoria’s Marysville that an announcement had been made regarding an alleged police order that the site be immediately evacuated due...
The Law, Defences and Penalties for Larceny as a Clerk or Servant in NSW
It has been alleged that a bank employee in the US city of Charlotte, North Carolina stole US$88,000 (approx. AUD$128,000) from the bank’s vault between July and August, 2019, and flaunted his new-found wealth on several social media posts. Arlando...
Get Your Priorities Right, Scott Morrison
While the eastern side of the country was burning like never before, some of the old boys’ club were sitting in the backroom of parliament house inhaling some refined pure white Christian prejudice in legislative form. It was the best...
The Offence of Choking, Suffocation and Strangulation in New South Wales
In December 2018, the NSW Parliament passed the Crimes Legislation Amendment Bill which inserted a new section 37(1A) into the Crimes Act 1900. Unlike the existing section 37, subsection (1A) does not require the prosecution to prove that the defendant’s...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 9 to 15 December 2019
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Iraqi Protesters Risk All for a Unified, Diverse and Secular State Thousands are risking their lives to call for a complete overhaul of how the...
Foreign-Owned Companies Avoid Billions in Tax
As thousands of Australians wonder how they’ll put food on the table this Christmas, the Australian Tax Office (ATO) has released figures which (again) show that many large companies have avoided paying tax in recent years. Despite many individuals being...
Victorian Sex Workers Demand “Full” Decriminalisation
Sex work is work, no matter which way you look at it. Workers in the sex industry get paid for providing a service. And yet, they’re not afforded the same rights and protections as other workers. Indeed, in many cases,...
NSW Justice Amendment Package Part 2: More Powers for Corrective Services and Sheriffs
It’s been another huge year in NSW parliament. The focus this time, however, wasn’t so much on rights eroding counterterrorism legislation, but the further stripping of civil liberties through last month’s enactment of the anti-protest Right to Farm Bill 2019....
