Should Injecting Rooms Be Open to Pregnant Women?
NSW Health is currently undertaking a mandatory review of the Uniting Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) in Kings Cross. The centre - the only one of its kind in Australia - was established in 2001 in response to an epidemic...
Is it ever ok for a man to punch a woman in the face?
In legal terms the answer is yes, as long as the man is acting in self-defence. A Magistrate has found that a young man who punched a woman unconscious outside a nightclub in the Newcastle CBD on Boxing Day, acted in...
Police Ignore Desperate Mother’s Pleas for Help
A grieving mother has laid a formal complaint against South Australian Police for not responding with urgency or empathy on the morning her 4-year old son Luca was killed by his father. The moment Julia Trinne realised her husband and...
Controlling Youth Crime: Victorian Summit May Lead to Results
Crime and youth experts have attended a Victoria Police Summit aimed at addressing issue of youth violence. The Summit was held in response to a spike in property and violent crimes - including car jackings, burglaries and larceny offences –...
Drug Use Soars Despite Spike in Arrests
Australian police conducted a record number of drug seizures in 2014-15, according to the recent Illicit Drug Data report from the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission. The 105,862 seizures represented an increase of 13.7% compared to drug busts during the previous...
Tattoos in the Workplace
The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) has ruled that employers are permitted to discriminate on the basis of tattoos. The ruling was made in the case of Chontelle McGoldrick, who was denied a job as a flight attendant at both Qantas...
Abuses of Power in Closed Institutions: A Better Way
The ABC’s exposé of abuse at Done Dale detention centre in the Northern Territory has shocked the Australian public and led Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to announce a Royal Commission into juvenile detention. Since the abuses hit the mainstream media,...
France Refuses to Glorify Terrorists
Several French media outlets have pledged to stop publishing the names and images of attackers linked to Islamic State in order to prevent them from being glorified. The pact is part of a wider debate about how media reports may...
Magistrates Who Ignore the Law
The ‘scales of justice’ have tipped heavily in favour of the State in recent years, to the detriment of anyone who may be suspected of a criminal offence. Dilutions of the right to silence and presumption of innocence mean that, in...
2000 Cases of Abuse on Nauru Leaked to the Media
There are growing concerns that the Federal Government has failed to address concerns about treatment of those held in off-shore detention centres, and with thousands of files detailing allegations of abuse having been leaked to the media this week, the...
