ABF and Police Powers to be Further Expanded
As one traveller recently discovered, Australian Border Force (ABF) officers have the power under section 186 of the Customs Act 1901 and its regulations to confiscate the electronic devices of those at the airport for up to 14 days. If...
Morrison Confirms Innocent Children Will Remain in Detention
Back in the early 1940s, the Nazis carried out medical experiments on large numbers of prisoners being held in concentration camps. Often resulting in trauma or death, the experiments were conducted without the consent of detainees, which included children. On...
The Frontier Violence Perpetrated by the NSW Mounted Police
Most Sydneysiders would have at one time or another seen members of the NSW Mounted Police out on patrol. Often these officers – who for the most part work in pairs – can be seen riding their horses down Surry Hills...
Driver Laughs as he Mows Down Mob of Emus
The driver suspected of running down at least a dozen terrified emus has be identified as a 20-year old man from Pinnaroo, a small town in South Australia. It has been reported that the suspect is the son of a...
Indigenous Deaths in Custody Continue Unabated
Two Aboriginal teens drowned in the Swan River on 10 September while being pursued by WA police. The youths - 17-year-old Jack Simpson and 16-year-old Chris Drage - made it to the middle of the river that flows through Perth, but...
Sleeping Rough in Sydney: An Interview With Martin Place Mayor Lanz Priestley
The release of the 2016 Census homelessness statistics in March confirmed what most already knew: the amount of people with no permanent fixed address in this country is on the rise. The ABS figures revealed that 50 out of every 10,000...
Does Circle Sentencing Work?
Circle sentencing is an alternative form of sentencing available to adult Aboriginal offenders. It is generally used to deal with more serious crimes and often entails full community involvement as well as consideration of traditional Indigenous forms of dispute resolution...
Sexual Harassment Rife in Australian Workplaces
New research by the Human Rights Commission suggests that sexual harassment is on the rise in Australian workplaces. The study, the fourth of its kind since 2012, found that one in three people reported being sexually harassed in the workplace,...
Statistics on NSW Drugs Busts Exaggerated
The Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) has announced it has mistakenly double-counted a large number of drug busts over the past seven years - an admission which many believe further bolsters the argument that the war on drugs...
Two Die at Defqon 1, But NSW Government Still Refuses to Allow Pill Testing
Tragically, this year’s music festival season has begun with two suspected drug-related deaths at a festival in southwestern Sydney. And this incident is all the more appalling as these deaths could have potentially been prevented if the NSW government was...
