The Victoria Police Killing of Homeless Somali Man: Justified or Excessive Force?
Two Victoria police officers shot dead Somali man Abdifatah Ahmed at around 9 pm on Thursday 17 April 2025, after being called out to the corner of Paisly and Albert streets in the Naarm-Melbourne suburb of Footscray, due to a...
Statistics Suggest Police Are Solving More Crimes Than Ever Before
A recent report by the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) has the mainstream media asserting that criminal offences are being ‘solved’ at higher rates than ever before in New South Wales. But while these sources...
Killing of Indigenous Boy Suggests Racist Violence is Alive and Well in Australia
Killings and massacres based on race, as well as systemic social, economic and political issues defined by race, ethnicity, religion, gender and sexual orientation have plagued our nation since its inception. The latest example of an attack reported to be...
With Strip Search Class Action About to Begin, Police Admit Strip Search of Girl Was Illegal
The New South Wales Police Force admitted on 2 April 2025 that a strip search performed upon a 16-year-old girl attending the Byron Bay Splendour in the Grass music festival almost seven years ago, was illegal, and it appears the...
Former Philippines President Faces Trial Over Drug War Killing Spree
The fact that former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte, who on taking office in June 2016, launched a drug war comprised of mass extrajudicial killings that continued until he left office in June 2022, is now in the custody of the...
Drug Summit Recommends Prohibiting Sniffer Dogs and Strip Searches at Music Festivals
The last week released NSW Drug Summit 2024 report recommended 56 priority actions be undertaken in this state to improve the issue of illicit drugs and the harms associated, with the final one being the cessation of the use of...
Sentence for Officer Who Killed Great-Grandmother by Taser Is Manifestly Inadequate
The former police officer convicted of manslaughter for fatally tasering 95-year-old great-grandmother Clare Nowland at an aged care facility in southern New South Wales has been given a non-custodial sentence, with many expressing the view that the penalty is far...
Schoolyard Assault Highlights Trend Towards Violence in Youth Culture
A recent case involving the arrest of a woman and two young girls over the alleged attempted assault of a student and brutal assault of two staff members at a school in Northern New South Wales exemplifies a disturbing trend...
Political Block on Atrocity Prosecutions Remains, As Major Parties Reject Genocide Reforms
The Labor-Liberal ruling duopoly voted down Senator Lidia Thorpe’s Genocide Bill in the Senate on Wednesday, which meant the major parties agreed that a political veto afforded the attorney general in respect progressing atrocity crime prosecutions, that ensures inequality before...
New South Wales Launches Yet Another Crackdown on Youth Crime
The New South Wales Police Force launched yet another regional youth crime crackdown on 19 March 2025, as deputy commissioner Paul Pisanos told Nine’s Today that the new Operation Soteria has been put into effect to address what police see...
