Is Your Super Financing Terrorism?
Australia’s financial intelligence agency (AUSTRAC) believes millions of our hard earned superannuation dollars could be financing terrorism. AUSTRAC says the possibility must be taken seriously, pointing out that only a handful of super funds disclosed more than half of all...
Support the Government or Get Sued!
GetUp! Has come out in support this week of a 66-year old Sydney grandfather who has been threatened with legal action by the Turnbull Government over his ‘Save Medicare’ website. The Federal Government has threatened to sue Mark Rogers, also...
An Unfair Dismissal? An Interview with Former Police Constable Hugh Brennan
We’ve reported on a number of police officers who’ve engaged in crime, corruption and other forms of misconduct, yet still been allowed to remain on the NSW Police Force. There are currently hundreds of officers on the NSW force with...
NSW Police Claim Credit for Solving Cold Case Murder
Quanne Diec left her parent’s Granville home for Strathfield Girls High School on the morning of July 27, 1998. But the 12-year-old vanished before she got to Clyde Station. On Sunday, police charged a 49-year-old man with the murder of...
Police Officers Face Court for Lying About Assault at Police Station
Six NSW police officers are facing charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice after an assault on Aboriginal man Cory Barker at Ballina police station in January 2011. The Incident and Local Court Hearing As previously reported, 23-year...
Police Strike Force to Investigate Sydney Killings
NSW Police have developed a new strike force in an effort to stamp out gangland warfare, after the killing of several crime figures on Sydney’s streets in recent months. Investigations into a number of shooting deaths over the past 17...
Byron Bay Mum Faces Murder Charges in Bali
A romantic overseas getaway has turned into a nightmare for Byron Bay mother Sara Connor. Connor is back in court in Denpasar this week, facing murder charges over the death of a Balinese policeman in August. She is being tried...
Free pill testing kits will be available at music festivals
Free pill-testing kits will flood Sydney’s music festivals this summer, despite Mike Baird refusing to formally implement the harm minimisation measure. Fed up with the government’s “unrealistic” zero-tolerance approach, drug reformists are taking matters into their own hands by vowing...
Lawyer who engaged in professional misconduct keeps his job
By Blake O’Connor and Ugur Nedim NSW lawyer’s career was saved this week in a last ditch appeal to the NSW Court of Appeal after the Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) ordered that he be ‘struck off’ the roll of...
History Repeats: Are We Heading Towards Another World War?
A fleet of eight Russian warships sailed through the English Channel late last month, on their way to the Mediterranean Sea. And while this body of water along the British coast is an international zone, Moscow’s show of strength raised...
