NSW Labor Is Continuing to Refuse Major Drug Law Reform Despite Election Promises
According to veteran NSW drug law reformist Dr Alex Wodak, it’s “an open secret that most of the NSW cabinet now support major drug law reform”. This suggests that the recent 2024 NSW Drug Summit was “designed to not recommend...
Making a Hero of an Alleged Murderer: The Killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson
Video footage taken on 4th of December 2024 shows a hooded person emerge out from the shadows on a New York City street at night to shoot a man in the back of the head in front of a Manhattan...
Apartheid Israel Continues Its Genocide on Palestinians in Gaza Over the Holiday Period
The Christmas period saw the apartheid state of Israel continue its extralegal assault on multiple fronts, with the most obscene act committed since World War II, the Israeli-perpetrated Gaza genocide, now in its 15th month, which makes it rather difficult...
Labor Routinely Condemns Perceived Antisemitism, While Ignoring Islamophobic Attacks
Sydney woman Kelly Farrugia was arrested by NSW police officers on Dharug Country at her Parramatta home last Sunday afternoon, 22 December, in relation to her threatening an Egyptian mother and daughter in Bankstown Kmart a few days prior, after...
Court Refuses Injunction to Prevent Publication of Footage Exposing Extreme Animal Cruelty in Abattoir
Federal Court Justice John Snaden ruled partially in favour of The Game Meats Company of Australia (GMC) on 19 December 2024, when he ordered that animal protection company Farm Transparency International (FTI) should pay it $130,000 in damages in regard...
In the Unlikely Event AUKUS Reaches Fruition, Australians Will Be Paying $35 Million a Day
Looking back to the September 2021 announcement of the AUKUS pact and its centrepiece Australia’s acquisition of eight nuclear-powered submarines (SSN), it’s fair to say that then PM Scott Morrison wasn’t too concerned about seeing the boats come to fruition,...
Criminal Offences Relating to Doxxing in Australia are Broader than Required
On the last sitting day of parliament in 2024, the Albanese government enacted two new federal criminal offences to outlaw doxxing, which, while they had already been under contemplation, were brought forward by Australian attorney general Mark Dreyfus at the...
NSW Fails to Embrace Harm Minimisation, Preferring to Continue the Futile War on Drugs
This week’s New South Wales Drug Summit gave many people hope that our state would finally move away from the failed war on drugs and embrace drug minimisation measures such as decriminalisation and pill testing. But drug law reform experts...
Queensland Rushes to Pass Laws By Christmas That Would See Kids Sentenced as Adults
Draconian youth crime laws are set to pass Queensland parliament on Thursday, 12 December, which were long spruiked by the Crisafulli government in opposition, under the banner of ‘adult crime, adult time’, which will soon see youths that commit certain...
Police Officer Sent to Prison for Falsifying Evidence
A police officer has been sentenced to imprisonment for fabricating evidence against a woman during an investigation into drug offences. 37-year old former police detective Jye Symes pleaded guilty to one count of misconduct in public offence after falsely claiming...
