NSW Government Continues to Ignore Unjust Drug Driving Laws
During a premier and finance estimates hearing on Wednesday, committee chair Jeremy Buckingham put it to NSW premier Chris Minns, whether he might seem impaired to the Labor leader as he was presiding over the proceedings. “No, you seem very...
Australian Lawyers Warn Federal Ministers their Support of Israel Contravenes International Law
Over 100 Australian and Australia-based lawyers and legal scholars published an open letter on Thursday 22 August 2024, calling on prime minister Anthony Albanese, foreign affairs minister Penny Wong, defence minister Richard Marles and attorney general Mark Dreyfus to implement...
New Laws Will See Federal Politicians Punished for Poor Conduct
Many of us may be feeling the fatigue in the face of the ongoing Brittany Higgins vs Bruce Lehrmann saga. However, despite the never-ending media headlines, the creation of ‘celebrity status’ around a number of people involved, and notwithstanding the...
Silence Remains on Hidden Settler Colonial Crisis of Disappeared First Nations Women
The Missing and Murdered First Nations Women and Children inquiry delivered its final report last Thursday, and as particular experts on disappeared First Nations women had warned on 15 May, the inquiry missed the mark by a wide berth as...
Wong Turns to Blatant Gaslighting on Gaza, as Majors Attempt to Out Scum Each Other
A series of tweets from Australian foreign minister Penny Wong regarding the ongoing 10-month-long Israeli perpetrated mass slaughter and coordinated starvation of the 2.3 million Palestinians living in Gaza, reveal a minister making assertions that given the broader context are...
What is the Standard Non-Parole Period for Murder in New South Wales?
Former New South Wales police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon appeared via audio visual link in Downing Centre Local Court yesterday charged with murdering Jesse Baird and his boyfriend, Luke Davies, inside a home in Sydney on 19 February 2024. The 29-year...
Should There Be a Ban on Publishing the Identity of Non-Convicted Defendants?
A promising young rugby union player is facing a jury trial over allegations he exchanged sexually explicit images and engaged in sexual conduct with two underage girls. The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions alleges that the now 23-year...
NSW Government Re-Commits to Failed Zero Tolerance Approach Ahead of Drug Summit
NSW is so ready for drug law reform that it hurts to watch a party like NSW Labor come to power, with many members, just like all the NSW Greens, having been actively campaigning on the need for reform for...
The State Is Still Abusing Ex-Child Wards, Via Redress, Just as it Did in Their Youth
As Leonie Sheedy recalls, when the girls who were under state care at the notorious Parramatta Girls Home held a protest in 1969, calling out the conditions they were subjected to by the NSW state, they were sent to Long...
‘Probable Terrorism Threat’ Stems from Rise in Far-Right Extremism
So, prime minister Anthony Albanese turned up the volume on Australia’s National Terrorism Threat Level on Monday morning, from “possible” to “probable”, which he added does not mean “imminent” or that intelligence has any details about a specific “threat or...
