Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 11 to 17 March 2024
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Sydney’s 22nd Mass Palestinian Rally Foretells of a Coming Political Reckoning: In Photos After 22 straight weeks of demonstrations against the Gaza genocide, the strength...
SAMS (Special Administrative Measures): A Key Reason Assange Can’t Be Extradited
The treatment the United States metes out to detainees is notoriously harsh, especially if you are considered an enemy of the state, and at times, it plainly constitutes torture. The extreme abuse at the black site of Abu Ghraib in...
NSW and Victorian Labor Continue to Stall on Pill Testing, Despite Yet Another Death
Shortly after being airlifted to Melbourne’s Alfred Hospital, 23-year-old Antony Maugeri died of a suspected drug overdose last weekend, after having attended the Pitch Arts and Music Festival in southwestern Victoria. The death is a reminder that the last time...
Returned ‘ISIS Wife’ Pleads Guilty to Entering and Remaining in a ‘Declared Land’
A New South Wales woman has pleaded guilty and will be sentenced for willingly entering and staying in Syria to be with her husband, who is accused of being a member of the declared terrorist organisation Islamic State. Australian citizen...
A Lack of AUKUS Subs May Cause Domestic Frowns, But Uncle Sam Is None Too Fazed
Australia was confronted with the news that the first of three second-hand Virginia class nuclear-powered submarines, we are is supposed to receive in 2032, may not be forthcoming just prior to Thursday’s one year anniversary of the 2023 San Diego...
NSW Government’s Tough-on-Youth-Crime Package: An Exercise in Passing Regressive Laws for Optics
On Tuesday, 12 March 2024 the NSW Labor government made it known that it’s concerned about not appearing tough enough on kids who fall foul of the law. And as of Tuesday this week, the state has been altered to...
The Australian War on Vapes: An Absurd Rejection of a Healthier Alternative
Two NSW police officers recently approached a 13-year-old boy vaping outside a Coles supermarket in the NSW town of Deniliquin, and, as he stood right beside his mother and another youth, one officer ordered him to hand over his “vapes”...
Cold War Implications of Dan Duggan Extradition Heat Up as Security State Closes Ranks
The extradition case involving Australian citizen Dan Duggan, which has seen the father-of-six remanded in prolonged isolation on request of the US for over 500 days now, has always maintained an air of legitimacy about it, despite its stark anomalies,...
Former NSW Magistrate David Heilpern Condemns Absolute Liability Drug Driving Ruling
Right now, the New South Wales drug driving laws that facilitate police roadside drug testing are unjust, and, over the last decade, when this open secret has been raised in parliament, conservative MPs feign a lack of understanding regarding the...
NSW Tibetan Community Rallies for Freedom: An Interview With Kyinzom Dhongdue
Sydney’s Martin Place was ablaze with the multicoloured Tibetan flag on Sunday morning to mark the 65th anniversary since the Tibetan Uprising of 10 March 1959, which saw thousands turn up on the streets of the Tibetan capital of Lhasa...
