Where Has All the Legal Medicinal Cannabis Gone?
A patient who uses medicinal cannabis to treat their ailments recently remarked in a social media forum that at present it’s taking their chemist at least two weeks from payment to fill their prescription for cannabis medicine. “They wonder why...
COVID-19: What’s the Difference Between ‘Close Contact’ and ‘Casual Contact’?
As New South Wales and Victoria battle to keep new COVID cases to a minimum and outbreaks under control, a Sydney woman has been fined $2000 over allegations she breached public health orders while on holiday in Byron Bay. The...
Gladys Makes Masks Mandatory in Greater Sydney
Premier Gladys Berejiklian has just made face masks mandatory in greater Sydney, as the region records seven locally acquired cases of Covid-19. The Public Health (COVID-19 Mandatory Face Coverings) Order 2021 makes it mandatory from midnight tonight – Saturday 2nd January, to...
Truth-Telling: Activist Stephen Langford on Facing Time Over Craft Gluing a Colonial Statue
The Black Lives Matter-Stop Black Deaths in Custody movement erupted in Sydney last June. Despite COVID lockdown restrictions only just being lifted, thousands took to the streets, as they challenged the tired and wearying official narrative around the British takeover of...
Court Reveals Identity of Lawyer Charged with Aggravated Sexual Assault
It may be common knowledge in the legal profession, but the name of a Sydney criminal defence lawyer charged with aggravated sexual assault has now been made public, after the lawyer’s appeal against the Local Court’s refusal to grant a...
The Offence of Conspiracy to Defraud the Commonwealth
It’s a trial with all the hallmarks of a great blockbuster movie. Two siblings, Adam and Lauren Cranston, whose father is the former deputy commissioner of the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), along with lawyer Dev Menon and referrer Jay Onley,...
New Year’s Eve During COVID-19: Restrictions on Gatherings and Movements
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has confirmed that New Year’s Eve fireworks will go ahead this year, but is discouraging attending them amidst concerns about the spread of COVID-19. In fact, a New Year’s Eve pass is required to enter the...
What is a Police ‘Move On Direction’ in New South Wales?
Health Minister Brad Hazzard has slammed ‘backpackers’ who partied in Bronte Park on Christmas Day, saying they blatantly ignored physical distancing advice. Up to 500 people gathered for the event, with beers in hand, allegedly ignoring the alcohol free rules...
Police Accused of Revenue Raising Over Mobile Phone Fines
In a year when we all need compassion more than anything else, police around Australia have shown very little of it. No one is suggesting they haven’t had a challenging time enforcing ever-changing pandemic-related health regulations, but New South Wales...
The NSW Offence of Carrying a Knife or Blade in a Public Place or School
Police have reported having arrested 140 people on Thursday 18 and Friday 19 December 2020 and charged them with various criminal offences, as part of a police blitz on Sydney streets labelled ‘Operation Saber IV’. It’s the fourth time a...
