Police Shoot and Kill Unarmed, Surrendering Man
Shocking footage has emerged from Texas showing two police officers shooting a shirtless man who is standing outside his home with his hands up in surrender. Gilbert Flores, 41, was shot twice and died at the scene. The official police...
Teen Charged After Urging Boyfriend to Kill Himself
Michelle Carter texted her boyfriend, Conrad Roy III, hundreds of times in the lead up to his suicide. The highly disturbing messages repeatedly urged Roy to just “do it”, calling him a coward and saying that he “always seem[s] to...
Women Barristers Paid Less than Men
The majority newly admitted lawyers in NSW are women, making up 63% of all law graduates. But only 20% of barristers are female, and they get paid a lot less than their male peers. Last week, the NSW Bar Association...
People Shot Dead by Police in US, UK and Australia
A disturbing infographic depicts the number of people killed in the United States as a result of police shootings – a staggering 776 people have been shot dead by US police so far this year. By contrast, the total in...
Paedphiles Identified through Personal Features
Criminologists have been searching for the magic formula for identifying criminals for hundreds of years, without much luck. Scientists have tried all sorts of things - from cruel experiments on live humans during medieval times and in Nazi Germany, to...
Dog Attacks: The Liability of Owners
An eight-year-old girl has lost her hand after being bitten by a dog on the weekend. According to news reports, the girl was playing with other children at around 3pm on Saturday afternoon under the supervision of an adult, when...
Females Sentenced to be Gang Raped
While there are certainly problems with the Australian criminal justice system, we are lucky enough to live in a society where punishments are not designed to inflict cruelty, degradation and humiliation. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for some countries,...
Chemical Castration of Child Sex Offenders: Is it Effective?
There has been a national crackdown on child sex offending in recent months, with NSW Premier Mike Baird announcing tougher maximum penalties and ‘standard non-parole periods’ earlier this year. But NSW Justice Minister Troy Grant wants to go one step...
The Australian Border Force: What Powers Do They Have?
If you watched the news towards the end of last week, chances are you heard about the Australian Border Force (ABF) debacle which sparked a massive protest in Melbourne’s CBD on Friday afternoon. The outrage was triggered by a poorly-worded...
Bail Laws to Get Tougher for Suspected Terrorists
Regular readers of our blog will know that the NSW government has been changing the law on bail more frequently than most of us can keep up with. And now, the Baird government has announced that more changes are on...
