Sydney Deputy Mayor Calls Out Heavy-Handed NSW Police, Ahead of WorldPride
The warrantless use of sniffer dogs by NSW police in public has been rising since it commenced in the early 2000s. And over the last decade, officers have been increasingly using strip searches in response to a drug dog indication,...
Nonviolent Climate Defender Sentenced to Imprisonment
To the shock of her numerous supporters gathered at the Downing Centre Courthouse today, NSW Magistrate Allison Hawkins sentenced Violet Coco to 15 months imprisonment, with non-parole set at 8 months, as well as imposing a $2,500 fine. Extinction Rebellion...
What is a Malicious Prosecution?
The man whose life was torn apart after being maliciously prosecuted for historical child sexual offences in an attempt to ruin his reputation and elicit information on the disappearance of three-year old William Tyrell has been awarded nearly $1.5 million...
The History of Laws Against Cruelty to Animals
Up until the middle of the Enlightenment (late 1600s to early 1800s), some of history’s most influential and revered philosophers and theologians enabled animal cruelty by professing that non-humans were non-sentient beings; in other words, lacking in the ability to...
Appointing Deputy Commissioner to Reform QPS Is a Mistake, Warns Whistleblower Rick Flori
Publicly released last week, A Call for Change is a report into the Queensland Police Service response to family and domestic violence carried out by an independent commission led by Queensland Judge Deborah Richards, which has caused quite a stir. The report...
Sydney Police Constable Charged After Allegedly Threatening Junior Officers
A Sydney police officer is facing criminal charges after allegedly threatening two ‘rookies’. The 29-year old police constable has been charged with four offences: common assault, intimidation, causing danger with firearm, and neglect of duty, after an internal investigation found...
Court Calls for Cancellation of Clive’s Coalmine
Queensland’s Land Court has recommended the state government refuse a licence for the proposed Galilee Coal Project on the basis that it will unjustifiably impact on “the right to life, the cultural rights of First Nations peoples, the rights of...
Morrison’s Multiple Ministries: Power Grab Slammed and Justification Rubbished
The Inquiry into Multiple Ministerial Appointments has delivered its final report into former Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s secretive ‘self-appointment’ to several ministerial positions during his tenure as the nation’s leader, rubbishing his justifications for the power grab. The ‘Bell Inquiry’,...
This is a Police State: Restore the Right to Demonstrate
The footage of the attack upon Sydney protester Danny Lim on the part of two NSW police officers in plain view of the public, indeed in a main thoroughfare of the Queen Victoria Building, was not only brutal but it also...
The History of Parricide: Intentionally Killing a Close Family Member
Murdering one’s own mother or father is an act so reviled throughout history that no King, Queen, Emperor, Sultan or dictator wanted to acknowledge it even existed by making it a discrete criminal offence. This is despite many such heads...
