Law Firms Can Sack Lawyers who Criticise Clients
A Federal Court has ruled that a law firm was entitled to sack an employee who criticised government clients, by advocating for the rights of veterans who had suffered sexual and physical abuse. The lawyer, Gary Rumble, was dismissed in...
Newcastle Man Arrested Over Terrorist Threats
New South Wales counter-terrorism police have arrested an alleged right-wing extremist from Newcastle for threatening to cause a “mass casualty event” at a mosque. 43-year old Cormac Rothsey was arrested following an investigation by the NSW Joint Counter Terrorism Team,...
NSW to Pass More Laws Aimed at Silencing Animal Activists
The NSW Liberal Nationals government is reinforcing its ever-broadening patchwork of ag-gag legislation, designed to block animal rights activists from exposing inhumane practices and specific incidents of cruelty occurring in this state’s farms and slaughterhouses. NSW agriculture minister Adam Marshall...
Drop the Collaery Prosecution: An Interview With Australian Lawyers Alliance’s Greg Barns
As Australian barrister Bernard Collaery is set to stand trial in the ACT Supreme Court over charges of conspiring to communicate secret information, the Australian Lawyers Alliance (ALA) has stepped forward and called for his prosecution to be dropped. With...
Convicted Child Killer and Child Sexual Offender to be Released
Having served his time and with all legal avenues to keep him in prison exhausted, a convicted child sex offender and child killer will soon be released. New South Wales Attorney General Mark Speakman has been in the midst of...
Cartel Offences in Australia: The Crime of Anti-Competitive Conduct
Japanese shipping company Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd - also known as K-Line - was fined $34.5 million over cartel conduct in the Federal Court last month. K-Line admitted to engaging in anti-competitive conduct with other shipping companies between July 2009...
NSW Police Officer Charged with Sexual Assault
A 22-year old Sydney Police officer has been accused of raping one woman and groping another in separate incidents that are alleged to have occurred last year. The probationary constable was arrested at Granville Police Station following an investigation by...
“A Step Too Far”: Morrison Moves to Criminalise Cash Payments
Right now, the Morrison government is finalising legislation that will criminalise large cash transactions made to or accepted by individuals and businesses for goods and services transactions. The cash payment limit that will soon warrant prison time if breached is...
Revolution of Our Times: An Interview With Hong Kong Protester Silver Lee
The anti-extradition bill rallies in Hong Kong are now in their twelfth week. On Sunday 18 August, an estimated 1.7 million demonstrators - a quarter of the population - took to the city streets to protest in torrential rain. And...
“Do Not Forget Assange”: Calls to Bring the WikiLeaks Founder Home
“Do not forget Julian Assange. Or you will lose him,” tweeted John Pilger on 5 August. The veteran Australian journalist stated that he’d just visited the Wikileaks founder in London’s Belmarsh prison, and “his health is deteriorating”. “Treated worse than...
