Integrity of Criminal Justice System in Tatters: The ‘Lawyer X’ Scandal
At 4.15 pm last Friday afternoon, the Australian High Court and the Victorian Court of Appeal lifted suppression orders, which lead to the disclosure of the identity of Lawyer X: a police informant, who whispered her clients’ confidential details to...
Woman Charged for Paying Bribes to NAB Executive
Police are working their way through materials which, they suspect, may implicate former NAB Chief Executive Andrew Thorburn’s Chief of Staff, Rosemary Rogers, in a scheme involving millions of dollars in fraudulent payments to the owner of a service company....
Lack of Ministerial Accountability Stifles Prosecution
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) advised federal prosecutors last month that there was sufficient evidence to bring criminal charges as a result of leaks from Senator Michaelia Cash’s office to the media regarding raids upon the offices of the Australian...
For the Crime of Genocide: An Interview With the Aboriginal Tent Embassy’s Robert Corowa
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy has announced that it plans to take the Commonwealth of Australia and the British Crown to the High Court of Australia for the crime of genocide against the First Nations peoples of this continent. Situated on...
Police Officer Avoids Prison Despite Sharing Arrested Woman’s Private Photos
A former NSW police officer has avoided prison time despite using his position of power to access and download photos of an arrested woman’s genitals, before uploading the images to a closed Facebook group comprising four other serving police officers....
Driver Fined for Leaving Car Unlocked at Sydney Service Station
Ben Judd was on his way to work last Friday morning when he pulled into the BP service station at Woollahra to grab a meat pie. The Sydney driver returned to his vehicle to find a penalty notice in the...
George Pell Found Guilty of Sexual Assault
Cardinal George Pell faces a lengthy prison sentence after being convicted of sexually assaulting two choirboys. The highest ranking Australian Catholic cleric was found guilty after a five-week trial in Melbourne late last year, but the verdict was suppressed until...
Police Officers Allegedly Assaulted by Intoxicated Group
Victoria Police has now arrested six people over an incident involving alleged assaults on two police officers over the weekend, in what police have described as a ‘sickening attack’. CCTV footage of the incident appears to show the group attacking...
A Healer, Not a Dealer: Jenny Hallam Pleads Guilty to Drug Charges
When the Turnbull government passed an amendment bill in February 2016 that legalised “the cultivation and production of cannabis and cannabis resin for medicinal and scientific purposes”, it was an admission that medicinal cannabis is a valid treatment that patients use....
NSW Police Officer Blackmailed Women into Having Sex
Even before he became a New South Wales police officer in 2011, Vaughan Mark Hildebrand had developed a scheme to blackmail women into having sexual intercourse with him. His employment as an officer of the law merely gave him the...
