Whistleblower’s Lengthy Sentence Will Deter Others from Exposing Crime and Corruption
Over eight years ending in early 2017, Major David McBride served as a legal officer for the Australian Defence Forces. And over the eight months to February 2012 and the five to December 2013, he served in Afghanistan as a...
Gaoling Kids to Make It Safer is Ridiculous, Says ALS’ Karly Warner, as Minns Does Just That
“Locking up children in prison and thinking that that is going to make communities safer is ridiculous,” said Aboriginal Legal Service NSW/ACT chief executive Karly Warner on 12 March. “This has not worked in a single place that it’s been...
Disappeared First Nations Women Are Murdered by the Settler Colonial State
“We argue that missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and gender diverse people are never actually missing, opens a December 2022 submission produced by Dr Amy McQuire, Sisters Inside and the Institute for Collaborative Race Research (ICRR). “Aboriginal and Torres...
Australian Government Should Be Ashamed of Imprisoning McBride
Picture troops stranded in a foreign land, beyond watch or care of government back home, which is only concerned in looking effective. Consider these soldiers don’t know their aim in a foreign conflict, as neither do their leaders. And think...
NSW Crackdown on Domestic Violence: Police Blitzes and Bail Reforms
More than 550 people described by police as the state’s ‘most high risk domestic violence offenders’ have been arrested and charged with a total of 1,070 offences during in a four day police operation across New South Wales that ran...
Drug Supply Charges: Pleading Guilty, Remorse and Rehabilitation Can Significantly Reduce Sentence
A former AFL player has been sentenced to a full term of five years and four months in prison, with a non-parole period of three years, after being sentenced over multiple counts of supplying a prohibited drug as well as...
Zionist Who Planted Bomb on Pro-Palestinian’s Vehicle Could Soon be Released
A man who left a homemade bomb on a ute in the driveway of a Botany home in January, with a note attached threatening reprisal if the resident did not remove a Palestinian flag hanging out the front of his...
“Don’t Blow the Whistle”, Australia Warns, as It Imprisons Lawyer for Exposing War Crimes
Australians are raised on ideas of freedom, justice and equality: principles that the nation is said to embody, and its defence forces uphold. And it’s implicitly understood that serving military officers take no pleasure in committing acts that are usually...
New South Wales Offences for Selling, Advertising and Promoting Tobacco and E-Cigarettes
The prices for tobacco products in Australia have skyrocketed in recent years, making our nation one of the most expensive in the world for cigarettes, cigars, loose tobacco and other items containing the plant. And while this has contributed to...
Systemic Criminal Justice Bias Sees Only Muslim Crime Designated as Terrorism
In the wake of two mid-April Sydney stabbings that garnered intense public attention, not only due to the violence involved, but also the subsequent divergent manner in which the NSW Police Force and, indeed, politicians and intelligence agencies, have approached...
