Facebook Removes Police Support Page After NSW Police Force Complains
A Facebook page set up to support mentally ill police officers and their families has re-branded and returned to Facebook after being shut down. The original page, called the ‘Forgotten 300’, was removed by Facebook several weeks ago after the...
Teenagers Criminalised for Sexting
Advocacy group Youth Action has made submissions to a NSW Parliamentary enquiry calling for sexting laws to be amended so that young people are no longer criminalised and placed on the sex offenders register for expressing their sexuality in a...
Police May Soon Conduct ‘Random Text Checks’
I don’t know about you, but to me the word ‘Textalyzer’ conjures up intimidating images of Arnold Schwarzenegger at his menacing best in ‘The Terminator’. In New York, road safety authorities are hoping that drivers who text will feel the...
Government Spends Big on Cyber Security
The Australian government is stepping-up our defence against cyber-attacks. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull recently announced a $230 million cyber security strategy in an effort to address the costly issue of cyber-crime. The crackdown is designed to thwart malware attacks, and...
Practical Tips for Protecting Your Privacy
Sydney’s Leichhardt Council recently made history after voting to become the first local government in the world to ban the use of metadata in their investigations. The use and collection of private individual’s metadata, the information that describes their phone...
Push to Ban Wicked Campers
Two NSW local governments are pushing to ban ‘Wicked Campers’ from their roads, claiming the graffiti-style slogans are overly offensive. The campers have caused quite a stir in recent years, displaying provocative phrases like: ‘Fat girls are easier to kidnap’, ‘To...
Police More Interested In Manufacturing Offences than De-Radicalising Youth
Law enforcement agents conducted yet another high-profile anti-terrorism operation recently, this time raiding the home of a 16-year old boy in Auburn last Sunday night. Details of the allegations were released on Monday morning, with the Sydney Morning Herald reporting...
Dozens of NSW Police Facing Serious Criminal Charges
It has been reported that over 50 NSW police officers are facing a range of serious criminal charges, including sexual assault, child rape, domestic assault and perjury. The details, obtained under freedom of information laws, suggest that 32 of NSW...
11-Year Old Makes Burglar ‘Cry Like a Baby’
11-year old Chris Gaither was just hanging around at home with his dogs, when he heard a strange noise coming from upstairs. The quick thinking boy grabbed a knife and went to investigate, only to see an armed intruder coming...
The Silent Killer on our Roads
A friend of mine was in town recently and got a nasty surprise when pulled over by police and told to take a break, or face the prospect of a ticket for negligent driving due to his level of fatigue....
