Drug Policing Causes Most of the Harms: An Interview With Former Police Sergeant Greg Denham
Last August marked the 50th anniversary of one of the most significant music festivals of all time, Woodstock. The four day event involved the coming together of close to half a million people, and as is well-known, the hippies that...
What is Extortion?
The Federal Court’s judgment in 2020 had found Centrelink’s ‘robodebt system’ to be unlawful, and ordered the federal government to pay the legal costs of a social security recipient who challenged a debt notice that was issued to her in...
Landmark Victory for Police Corruption Whistleblower: An Interview With Rick Flori
The Queensland Court of Appeal ruled on 3 December that a 2010 letter that well-known police corruption whistleblower Rick Flori had written to the state oversight body now referred to as the Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) was a valid...
Could NSW Police Officers Be Getting Off on Strip Searches?
It’s commonplace these days to hear the ever-increasing practice of strip searching the public likened to a form of state-sponsored sexual assault. And the thing with this sort of violation is perpetrators get off on it. State police watchdog the...
Officers Who Report Police Misconduct Must Be Protected, Court Rules
In late February 2010, the Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) received a public interest disclosure letter relating to the conduct of two police officers that then Queensland police sergeant Rick Flori asserted had been involved in official misconduct. The letter...
Activists Imprisoned Over Nonviolent Civil Disobedience
Rising climate crisis awareness has been evidenced of late by the increasing numbers turning up on the streets demanding change. And it’s been fairly obvious from the start, that fossil-fuel addled politicians were going to respond with harsher penalties, rather...
Police Ordered to Pay for Endangering Domestic Violence Victim
In a win for domestic violence victims and others who have had their private information illegally accessed by police officers, the Queensland Police Service (QPS) has been ordered to pay compensation to Julie (not her real name), after an officer...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 2 to 8 December 2019
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Pregnant Mum Pleads Guilty to Multiple Fraud Offences The 32-year old mother-of-two kept a ‘to do list’ of the frauds she planned to commit each...
Iraqi Protesters Risk All for a Unified, Diverse and Secular State
Young Iraqi protesters have been taking to the streets in Baghdad since October. They’ve been demanding employment opportunities, an end to widespread economic disparity, adequate services and infrastructure, but further, a general overhaul of a corrupt governing system. The brutal...
The Repeal of Medevac Laws Mean More Power to Peter Dutton
In the past few years, what goes on behind the closed doors of Parliament has become a source of consternation for many Australians who are witnessing a slow undermining of democracy. This week Parliament reached a new low when a...
