Tinder Murder Trial: What the Jury Wasn’t Told
Mr Gable Tostee was acquitted yesterday of both murder and manslaughter over the death of his Tinder date Warriena Wright, who fell from his 14th floor apartment after the pair got into an argument. As reported in an earlier blog,...
The Life of a Former NSW Judge: An Interview with John Nicholson SC
John Nicholson SC has had a long and illustrious career within the NSW judicial system. On 23 July 2001, he was sworn in as a judge of the NSW District Court. But prior to law, he had a number of...
Posting Pictures Like These Can Put Your Child in Danger
Facebook has been around for more than 20 years. There’s a generation of kids who’ve grown up not knowing a time before social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram. Facebook is the number one site that keeps us...
Daughter Sues Parents for Posting Baby Photos on Facebook
A young woman in Austria has taken the unprecedented step of suing her parents over childhood pictures they posted of her on Facebook. The 18-year-old woman, who cannot be named under Austrian laws, claims the photos caused her significant embarrassment,...
Victim of Police Brutality Breaks Her Silence
Until now, Yvonne Berry has been a faceless victim of shocking police brutality, whose body we’ve seen pushed to the ground, dragged, pepper sprayed, kicked, stomped on and stripped naked in a series of degrading acts at Ballarat Police Station....
NSW Police Officers to Face Charges over Facebook Attack
Two NSW police officers that led a cyber bullying campaign against NSW Greens MP Jenny Leong earlier this year, are likely to be criminally prosecuted. The Police Integrity Commission (PIC) is compiling a report of evidence for the NSW Director...
Corruption Watchdog Wants More Whistleblowers to be Prosecuted
Queensland’s corruption watchdog is set to recommend that the act of disclosing information regarding corruption complaints to the media should become a crime. The Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) held a two-day public forum on October 6 and 7, to...
Government Bureaucrats Can Cancel Citizenship
By Blake O’Connor and Ugur Nedim The Federal parliament has passed the Australian Citizenship (Allegiance to Australia) Bill 2015 which gives government bureaucrats the power to cancel the Australian citizenship of dual citizens who they claim are involved in terrorist...
Scary Clowns Are No Laughing Matter
By Blake O’Connor and Ugur Nedim There is a new craze sweeping the world that has made its way to Australia, and it has police and professional clowns hopping mad. Even McDonalds’ main man, the one and only Ronald, has...
Court Rules on Ownership of Dead Fiancé’s Sperm
A young Queensland woman has won the right to harvest her late partner’s sperm for the purpose of artificially conceiving their babies. Ayla Cresswell, a 23-year old bank worker from Toowomba, was madly in love with bricklayer Joshua Davies when...
