Australia Under Attack from Cyber Criminals
In the third major reported data breach in the past month, hackers have threatened to release the personal data of Medibank customers unless their ransom demands are met. The extortion demand has the potential to expose up to 3.9 million...
What Happens if I Am Late to Lodge My Income Tax Return?
It’s probably fair to say the Australian Taxation Office isn’t seen as the fairest or most beloved organisation out there - taking a huge chunk of the hard-earned funds of residents every year and often meritlessly allocating much of it...
Australia: Easy Pickings for Cyber-Criminals
The latest national cyber attack, which has affected the data of more than 2 million Woolworths customers proves what cyber experts have been warning for years: Australia is easy pickings for cyber criminals. A shortage of specialist technical experts, who...
The Law, Penalties and Defences for the Offence of Sexual Act in New South Wales
A New South Wales man is facing court over allegations he performed a sexual act in front of a mother and her young daughter inside Kmart store in St Marys on 23 September 2022. The mother immediately reported the matter...
Failing to Stop and Assist After an Impact Causing Injury, GBH or Death in NSW
A teenager has been charged with a string of driving offences following a car crash in Wollongong that police believe caused the death of a 12-year old boy. According to police, the 17-year old male was driving a stolen Holden...
Victoria Police Set to Become Less Accountable Than Ever
The Police Accountability Project (PAP) in Victoria has had to severely cut its services, due to a lack of funding. The project has, until recently, been servicing about 400 people a year, but now, due to funding shortfalls and future...
Officer Charged with Fabricating Evidence, But His Victim Explains that Coverups Run Deep
When NSW police constable Daniel Keneally answered the phone at Newtown Police Station on 24 February 2021 to speak to the caller, Luke Brett Moore, neither man knew the other. Wanting to discuss this state’s police misuse of strip searches,...
Let’s Legalise It: Senator Shoebridge on Legislating Lawful Cannabis Nationwide
Since Australian Greens Senator David Shoebridge announced he’ll be introducing legislation into federal parliament with the aim of legalising cannabis for recreational use, there’s been a distinct feeling in the air that this is going to come to fruition. And...
The Offence of Knowingly Providing False or Misleading Information to a Commonwealth Entity
Former One Nation senator, current Great Australian Party Leader and self-styled ‘senator in exile’ Rod Culleton has vowed to fight charges that he knowingly provided false or misleading information to a Commonwealth entity. The basis of the allegations The charges...
NSW Police Officer Accused of Tampering with Evidence to Support False Criminal Charges
A New South Wales police officer has been charged with one count of tampering with evidence after an investigation by the state’s police watchdog, the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission, found that he falsely claimed that a member of the public...
