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A United NSW Demands an End to First Nations Custody Deaths and Police Brutality

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At 4.33 pm on Saturday 6 June, the 50,000 demonstrators gathered at Central’s Belmore Park knelt to mark the 433 First Nations deaths in custody since 1991. It was a solemn moment, as people from all racial backgrounds united in...

The Law, Penalties and Defences for Sexual Intercourse Without Consent

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For the past few years, Prince Andrew has been embroiled in allegations that he was a participant in a child sex trafficking network headed by the late American businessman Jeffrey Epstein. US prosecutors have been pursuing the Prince for some...

The Offence of Unlawful Assembly in New South Wales

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Tens of thousands of people took to Sydney streets over the weekend after Black Lives Matter protest organisers won a last minute battle in the New South Wales Court of Appeal. The NSW Police Force and NSW Government had joined...

Child Sexual Assault Network Smashed, AFP Reports

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A police investigation being led by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) claims to have uncovered a national network of alleged child sex offenders, accused of sexual assaulting and abusing children as young as four years old. Two of the men...

Family of First Nations Teen Subjected to “Brutal Police Assault” Demands Justice

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“Our son is a typical teenage boy and he feels more at home with his peers,” said the mother of a First Nations teen, who was thrown face first onto the ground by a police officer on Monday. “He’s got...

Expert Family Court Witness Guilty of Child Sexual Assault

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Bob Montgomery, a psychologist who spent time working as an expert witness for the family court, and was also the psychologist for the TV reality show Big Brother, has pleaded guilty to historical child sexual abuse. He faces up to...

Stop Police Brutality: NSW Police Officer Assaults Indigenous Teen

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As groups of police officers in the United States put down their weapons and stood alongside protesters railing against the death of black men in custody, video footage emerged of an Indigenous teenager being thrown to the ground by a...

Government to Refund $720 Million Extorted Through Robodebt

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The Federal Government has announced it will refund more than $720 million dollars to people who were unlawfully issued with debt notices under Robodebt, which many have labelled an extortion scheme targeting those without means to challenge it. And although...

Dutton Continues to Build the Surveillance State

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Right before the COVID-19 pandemic forced the nation into lockdown, home affairs minister Peter Dutton introduced a new piece of legislation into parliament that would allow foreign security agencies to access the private data of Australian citizens. Currently under review,...

Sydney Lawyer Allegedly Sacked for Refusing to Lie

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A corporate lawyer has commenced proceedings in the Federal Circuit Court after he was terminated from his position as a senior legal adviser with Meriton Property Services for allegedly refusing to lie in an affidavit. Sydney lawyer Joseph Callahan is...
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