Youth Crime: Prevention and Diversion Produce Better Outcomes than Punitive Measures
Australian federal, state and territory governments have in recent years passed a range of laws which take an increasingly punitive approach to youth crime - a populist approach which focuses on incarcerating troubled youths in detention centres rather than addressing...
The Offence of Producing or Distributing Deepfake Porn Without Consent in NSW
The law is often playing catch-up when it comes to regulating emerging technologies, and taking action against their misuse. And according to Australian law-makers, the nefarious use of deepfake porn is an example of this. New legislation Following the lead...
What is the Legal Definition of Genocide?
On 16 September 2025, the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Palestine (the Genocide Commission) released a 72-page report which found that Israel’s conduct towards Palestinians in the Gaza Strip fulfils the definition of genocide in international law....
Israel’s Atrocities in Gaza Satisfy the Legal Definition of Genocide
Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip confirmed a United Nations report released on 16 September 2025, which, coming close to two years into the mass murder and starvation program, is considered a turning point as...
The Offence of Indecently Interfering with a Body in New South Wales
Cindy’s Law is that which enables the conviction of a person for a sexual offence or an offence concerning conduct with a corpse without the need to establish whether the conduct occurred whilst the person was alive or deceased. The...
Trump’s Extrajudicial Killings Signify a Further Erosion of International Law
The targeted military strike on a boat in the southern Caribbean that killed 11 people, on order of US president Donald Trump, after it had departed from Venezuela on Tuesday 2 September 2025, has been taken as a significant departure...
Assassination of Charlie Kirk Shocks the World
The assassination of the founder of conservative youth organisation, Turning Point USA, has been denounced across the political spectrum and sheds further light on the deep social divisions within the United States. The 31-year old – who expressed anti-immigration and...
Hannah Thomas Plans to Sue Police, Now That All Criminal Charges Have Been Withdrawn
The New South Wales Police Force has dropped the charges it laid against lawyer Hannah Thomas. So, the remaining scenario is, as her lawyers maintain, that Thomas was allegedly punched in the face by a police officer, whom she, as...
Sovereign Citizens and Other Far-Right Extremists Pose a Far Greater Threat Than Muslim Teens
Australian law enforcement agencies have long targeted the Muslim community, conducting countless raids on homes of Muslim Australians over the years with little or no result, subjecting Muslims to high levels of monitoring and surveillance and, on occasion, pro-actively encouraging...
Australian Authorities Continue to Ignore Sovereign Citizen Threat
The question as to how Dezi Freeman was able to ambush ten Victorian police officers attending his residence, an old bus on a compound with various residents at the end of a dirt track, located on Taungurung and Gunaikurnai land...
