Geoffrey Rush Smashes Telegraph “Out of the Park” in Defamation Lawsuit
The Federal Court has ordered the owners of The Daily Telegraph, News Corp, to pay Academy-award winning actor Geoffrey Rush $850,000 in damages plus a yet to be determined sum for economic losses, resulting from the publication of unproven allegations...
PM Promises Prison for Animal Rights Activists
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has reacted to a recent anti-meat protest by promising prison terms of up to 12 months for activists who publish information about farmers who are allegedly cruel towards their animals. A protest on Monday saw disruptions...
High Court Rules that Abortion Safe-Zones are Constitutional
Two anti-abortion activists have lost their appeals against Victorian and Tasmanian laws which prohibit protesting near abortion clinics. Kathleen Clubb and Graham Preston appealed against laws which establish safe-zones near abortion clinics. The conduct of the appellants was holding placards...
Bum-Pinching Isn’t Indecent by Today’s Standards
A Western Australian Supreme Court justice has upheld the decision of a magistrate, who ruled that a 48-year-old police officer who pinched a woman on the behind did not indecently assault her, as prevailing social attitudes don’t consider this act...
NSW Police Conduct Another Illegal Roadside Strip Search
Another Facebook post relating to a dodgy strip search carried out by NSW police is currently going viral. It’s the third such piece of social media content in as many months that depicts officers who are either unsure of correct...
Can Farting in the Workplace Amount to Bullying?
Sonia Hickey and Ugur Nedim An employee who claims he was bullied by a flatulating fellow worker has vowed to take his former employer to the High Court of Australia. The story so far Melbourne engineer, David Hingst, claimed $1.8...
Should University Cheats Face Prison Time?
Federal education minister Dan Tehan has proposed tough new criminal laws which would see students who submit exams and assignments written by others, as well as those who receive fees to write material which they know will be submitted in...
NSW Magistrate Guilty of Sexual Offences
A jury in Downing Centre District Court has found the Magistrate charged with nine counts of indecent assault guilty of seven of the counts. 68-year old Graeme Curran was found guilty of indecently assaulting a boy aged between 13 and...
Study Finds that the Recollection of Eyewitnesses Can be Enhanced
Eyewitness testimony which includes an identification is a notoriously unreliable form of evidence, with a range of factors impacting upon the quality of observation and recollection of events. However, an Australian researcher suggests there may be a way to make...
Muslims Are the Main Targets of Hate Crimes in NSW
A recent study by the Sydney Institute of Criminology (SIC) has found that the overwhelming majority of religiously motivated hate crime in New South Wales is perpetrated against Muslim people. The SIC’s Professor Gail Mason made the finding by looking...
