Blockade Australia Has Shut Down Newcastle Coal Line for 10 Days Straight: Interview With Grace
Blockade Australia is back with a vengeance, as the network of climate defenders have been busily undertaking a sustained action against the resource rail line leading from the interior out to Newcastle Coal Port: the planet’s largest such port. But...
The Ongoing Crackdown on the Naarm Palestine Rally Is Targeting the Right to Protest
The local pro-Palestinian movement has become a force to be reckoned with over the last ten months. And the focal point of it has been the massive nonviolent and family-orientated street protests that have marched through the continent’s major cities...
Judge’s Complaint Against DPP Highlights the Injustice of Prosecuting Meritless Sexual Assault Claims
New South Wales District Court Judge Penelope Wass has made a formal complaint to the Legal Services Commissioner against the state’s chief prosecuting lawyer, Director of Public Prosecutions, Sally Dowling SC, after Ms Dowling allegedly raised ‘secret grievances’ about Judge...
Drop the Criminal Charges Against Richard Boyle: His Actions Embodied Public Interest
The nation of Australia is still glowing in the wake of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange being released and returning to be with his family in this country, and rightly so. Over the last decade, a local and global grassroots campaign...
Ban on Retail Sales of Nicotine-Free Vapes Makes No Sense At All
As of Monday, 1 July 2024, vapes are only available at pharmacies throughout Australia and for the first three months, sales of the products that are designed to be a safer alternative to smoking are by prescription only. The main...
NSW Police Under Investigation Over Delayed Response to Domestic Violence Report
Australian Femicide Watch has reported that another woman has been murdered at the hands of her male partner, making her the 47th female to be killed in the nation as a result of domestic violence offending this year alone, the...
Australia Is Obliged to Investigate Citizens Fighting for Israel, Says the ACIJ’s Rawan Arraf
Within days of Israel commencing its now ten-month-long killing spree of the Palestinians within the walled-in region of Gaza, that nation’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu put out a call for its 360,000 army reservists to show up for duty, and that...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 24 to 30 June 2024
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The Right to Disconnect in Australia: What Does it All Mean? Australian employees will soon have the right to refuse unreasonable employment-related contact outside their...
White Man Terrorism Isn’t So Terrifying, as Far-Right Plan to Behead Labor MP Ignored
A 19-year old Anglo Australian male briefly entered Newcastle Labor MP Tim Crakanthorp’s office dressed in a military-style outfit and armed with a knife on Wednesday afternoon, with the intent to behead the parliamentarian as part of a self-confessed politically-motivated...
DPP Discontinues Sexual Assault Proceedings Against Jarryd Hayne
Former rugby league star Jarryd Hayne’s six-year legal battle has officially ended, with the sexual assault proceedings against him being formally discontinued. The New South Wales Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) has determined that …’having carefully considered...
