The Issue of Police Investigating Police Over Aboriginal Custody Deaths Is Finally Becoming National Issue
The persistent calls for an independent investigation into the 27 May 2025 death in police custody of Warlpiri man Kumanjayi White, which would involve a body other than the Northern Territory Police Force, which is the law enforcement agency that...
Police Blitz on NSW Public Transport Network Results in Hundreds of Criminal Charges
The NSW Police Force has confirmed that 176 people were arrested, 326 criminal charges laid, and 10 knives seized during the latest four-day public transport blitz under Operation Waratah 4. Launched in 2024, Operation Waratah is a high-visibility operation that...
Courts Must Consider Family Violence When Making Financial and Property Orders
The federal parliament passed the Family Law Amendment Act 2024 on 10 December 2024, which amends the Family Law Act 1975 in a several ways, including the way in which financial and property matters are determined after the breakdown of...
Double Demerits and Heavy Policy Presence this King’s Birthday Long Weekend
Double demerit points apply to speeding offences, illegally using a mobile phone while driving, not wearing a seatbelt and riding without a helmet throughout New South Wales from 12.01am on Friday, 6 June until 11.59pm on Monday, 9 June 2025....
Medicinal Cannabis Drug Driving Defence Introduce in NSW Parliament
New South Wales Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann has long been attempting to address the legal anomaly that sees prescribed users of medicinal cannabis at risk of losing their drivers licence whenever behind the wheel, including when unimpaired. Yet, with the...
Constructive Murder in NSW: Homicide That Occurs During Another Serious Criminal Offence
At about 12.30 am on 24 May 2020, a man referred by the NSW Supreme Court as DPD and four other men, DJD, EE, Murdoch and Shillingsworth, were driving towards the home of Kevin Kourtis, which was located on Langton...
Australian Authorities Play Dumb Over Yet Another Aboriginal Death in Custody
Two plainclothes police officers intervened in an altercation in Alice Springs Coles supermarket at around 1.10 pm on Tuesday, 27 May 2025, which involved two security guards and a 24-year-old Warlpiri man with disabilities. The police used force to get...
McBride Heads to the High Court, After His Draconian Sentence Stands on Appeal
ACT Court of Appeal Justice Belinda Baker took the bench on Wednesday, 28 May 2025 to deliver the outcome of Australian Defence Force whistleblower David McBride’s appeal against his conviction and sentence, to simply announce that the appeal had been...
Queensland Expands Regime to Imprison Kids on Adult Time, Ignoring the UN
The Crisafulli government passed its second tranche of its “adult crime, adult time” laws on 22 May 2025, as part of a draconian policy designed to crackdown on a non-existent youth crimewave that now sees children aged 10 to 17,...
High Time: NSW Government to Consider Passing Medicinal Cannabis Driving Defence
Unlike other prescription drug users, those who are prescribed medicinal cannabis in New South Wales can lose their driver licences and obtain a criminal conviction if they are found to be driving with any trace of the medicine in their...
