In Committing the War Crime of Starvation, Israel Is Killing Off Babies and International Law
“There are 14,000 babies that will die within the next 48 hours unless we can reach them,” UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher warned the BBC on Tuesday, 20 May 2025 in respect of aid trucks then lined up at the...
New Footage of Melbourne Synagogue Torching Reminiscent of Fake Sydney Attacks
The Joint Counter Terrorism Team released the footage of the arson attack targeting the Naarm-Melbourne Adass Israel Synagogue that happened after 4 am on 6 December 2024, at a time when so-called “antisemitic” crime was the major headline, and the...
Resisting the Suppression of Western Colonial Crimes: Interview with Activist Stephen Langford
On 8 May 2025, New South Wales District Court Judge Christine Mendes quashed the Local Court conviction of Sydney activist Stephen Langford for the offence of intentional or reckless damage or destruction to property, after finding that his act of...
Doli Incapax: The Presumption that Kids Between 10 and 14 Cannot Form Criminal Intent
A 15-year-old boy made a complaint to New South Wales police about his older brother twice having had sexual intercourse with him, whilst he was roughly 6 years and 9 months old, which made his brother then 11 years and...
NSW Government Proposes to Ensure More Kids Are Criminally Convicted
There have been media reports that a High Court case in 2016 which makes clear the onus is on the prosecution to prove that those under the age of 14 knew their conduct was ‘seriously wrong’ in order to secure...
A Rise in Nitazene Overdoses Requires Fixed Site Pill Testing and Take-Home Naloxone
The Australian Federal Police issued a warning on Wednesday about the worrying trend in a relatively new type of street drug, a group of synthetic opioids known as nitazenes, being increasingly detected at the border, as well as being available...
Federal Politics Doesn’t Need a Neo-Nazi Party, as Canberra Has Enough Far-Right Actors
The neo-Nazi booing of Bunurong elder Uncle Mark Brown, as he was performing Welcome to Country at the dawn service at the Shrine of Remembrance in Naarm-Melbourne on 25 April 2025, Anzac Day, was a deplorable act of racism that...
Murder Trial Underway Over Alleged Mushroom Poisonings
A woman is currently facing a jury trial over allegations that she caused the deaths of three guests and attempted to cause the death another by way of poisoning. The defendant, 50-year old Erin Patterson, is on trial in the...
Jury Nullification: Could Mangione Be Found Not Guilty Despite the Evidence?
The “frightening, well-planned, targeted… [and] cold blooded” killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan on 4 December 2024 and arrest of Luigi Mangione five days later was met with mixed feelings in the United States. Mr Thompson was a...
NSW Government Uses Knife Crime to Justify Wholesale Random Searches and Surveillance
The first day of the NSW Coroners Court Bondi Junction Inquest, which will inquire into the mass stabbing incident that involved 40-year-old white Australian man Joel Cauchi entering the Bondi Junction Westfield shopping mall on 13 April 2024 to commence...
