Renewed Calls for the Decriminalisation of Minor Offences
The Queensland Productivity Commission (QPC) has heard that the increasing number of people criminalised as a result of poverty and abuse is one of the most significant problems facing the State’s prison system. The QPC was tasked last year with...
The Continuing Violation of the Rights of Future Generations
The twentieth century has been described as the century of war. Those years saw more than 170 million people killed by government, with 10 million lost in the Great War and 50 million during World War Two. Although, somewhat paradoxically,...
Woman Charged with Blackmailing Grieving Parents
It’s entirely possible that you saw and perhaps even shared the desperate pleas on social media from couple Jay and Dee Windross calling for help to find a lost mobile phone that held photos of their dying baby girl. The...
Australia Prosecutes Whistleblowers Who Expose Government Misconduct
The US bombing of Laos during the height of the Vietnam War made that country the most heavily bombed per capita in human history. Today, around 50 local people - 75 percent of whom are children – continue to lose...
Free Ola Bini: “Assange-Linked” Digital Rights Activist Arbitrarily Detained in Ecuador
Just hours after the Ecuadorian embassy in London threw Julian Assange to the lions on 11 April, the authorities in Ecuador arrested and detained free software developer and online privacy activist Ola Bini at Quito airport. Despite local press in...
Police Officer Found Guilty of Homicide
Former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor has been found guilty of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter over the shooting death of Australian woman Justine Damond Ruszczyk. Mr Noor has been remanded in custody and faces up to 15 years in...
PM’s Retrograde Domestic Violence Counselling: An Interview with WDVCAS’ Hayley Foster
Early last month, it came to light that the Morrison government has put aside $10 million to fund Specialised Family Violence Services, which is essentially a program that involves the provision of counselling and dispute resolution for couples dealing with...
Man Faces Court for Filming Under Cubicle Door
30-year old French national Mehdi Gaci has been charged with recording an intimate image without consent arising from an incident that allegedly occurred in a Sydney bar on Saturday, 27 April 2019. Police allege that at around 1am that morning,...
Woman Are Less Likely to Support Cannabis Legalisation Than Men
Community attitudes towards the legalisation of cannabis have shifted in recent years, with more and more people calling for marijuana to be legalised in Australia. However, research by North Carolina State University has suggested that women are less likely than...
The Crime of Bestiality in New South Wales
A 34-year-old Bangalow man stands accused of going on a seven year sexual offending spree in Byron Bay. This included having sex with at least 19 dogs. Dean Anthony Sellenthin has been charged with bestiality over the acts that involved...
