Australian Law Firm Files Case Against PM for Complicity in Gaza Genocide
Australian PM Anthony Albanese was referred to the International Criminal Court in a communiqué presented to ICC prosecutor Karim Khan KC on Monday. The nation’s leader stands accused as an accessory to the genocide occurring in the Gaza Strip, as...
Queensland Supreme Court Finds Covid Vaccine Mandates Were Unlawful
A recent decision by the Supreme Court of Queensland which found that Covid-19 vaccine mandates against the state’s police officers and paramedics were unlawful as they were not issued in accordance with legal requirements could pave the way towards similar...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 26 February to 3 March 2024
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The Offence of Assault Causing Death Whilst Intoxicated in NSW A man is facing court after allegedly punching a security guard to the head and...
Medical Neglect: Albanese Must Deliver Labor’s Long-Promised Medicare into Prisons
“It is my experience, in general, people come out of prisons in worse conditions than when they commenced the situational trauma of incarceration,” Gerry Georgatos remarked, in commencing the keynote speech at the Indigenous Justice Forum in Brisbane on Thursday....
The Offence of Intent to Murder in New South Wales
A shooting at the offices of a Sydney law firm has led to the arrest of a 79-year old man, who has been charged with intent to murder. The man opened fire at the offices of Van Cooney Lawyers on...
Why NSW Police Should Have Stayed Out of Mardi Gras
After the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Board requested the NSW Police Force will not march in Saturday’s parade, bowing to a pressure campaign, which involved the likes of NSW premier Chris Minns, police minister Yasmin Catley and even...
Setting the Record Straight: The Jewish Council’s Sarah Schwartz on Antisemitism
Currently, the mainstream media cycle is conveying that antisemitic incidents are on the rise in the community. However, whilst some of the examples are clearly about circumstances involving the expression of prejudice against Jewish people, others involve criticism of the...
“All of Australia is the West Bank”: An Interview with Camp Sovereignty’s Uncle Robbie Thorpe
As Uncle Robbie Thorpe tells it, the reason for lighting the fire at and establishing Camp Sovereignty on Boonwurrung Country in the area also known as Melbourne’s Kings Domain on 12 March 2006, and again on 26 January, is the...
NSW Police Out of Mardi Gras Has Been a Long-Time Coming, as March Requests Cops Not Attend
The long-time-coming disinviting of the NSW Police Force from this year’s Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is no surprise. The circumstances that saw the Mardi Gras Board finally agree with long-term calls for the cops out of Mardi Gras...
Despite the Evidence on the DFAT Site, Wong Still Denies Recent Weapons Exports to Israel
“We know that Australia is not just silent when it comes to the genocide, but Australia is deeply complicit,” said Greens Senator David Shoebridge at the 25 February Palestine Action Group rally in Gadigal-Sydney’s Hyde Park. This was the 20th...
