Barilaro Charged Over Altercation with Cameraman
Former Deputy New South Wales Premier John Barilaro has been charged with criminal offences over a late-night altercation with a media crew last month in the Sydney suburb of Manly. The clash The incident occurred when a Channel Seven cameraman...
NSW Premier Vows to End Bullying and Harassment in State Parliament
New South Wales Premiser Dominic Perrottet has vowed to put an end to the vitriol and toxicity in State Parliament, issuing a directive to ministers this week to cease inappropriate behaviours towards their colleagues, or face severe consequences including the...
The Commonwealth Offence of Possessing, Controlling Producing or Supplying Child Abuse Material
The New South Wales Police Force recently reported that on 22 May 2022, a 55-detective senior constable attached to a specialist command was arrested and charged with sexual assault, following an investigation by officers attached to the Professional Standards Command....
Prison Guard Charged with Murder of Aboriginal Detainee
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) NSW announced on 10 August that it was applying to the NSW Supreme Court to have a charge laid against a Corrective Services NSW (CSNSW) officer, who shot a Wiradjuri man in...
Google Fined for Unlawfully Collecting Australian Consumer Data
Google and the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission’s (ACCC’s) long running battle over the unlawful collection of data has been settled with the tech giant agreeing to pay $60 million. In April 2021, the Federal Court found that Google had...
Mounting Corruption Likely the End for the NSW Coalition Government
Former NSW deputy premier John Barilaro called in sick on Friday, prior to his scheduled appearance before the NSW Legislative Council Public Accountability Committee. The ex-NSW Nationals leader cited mental health as the reason why he couldn’t front up to...
Former US President Could Face Criminal Charges
Legal commentators in the United States suggest that former President Donald Trump could face criminal charges for anything from failing to send classified documents to the National Archive to the offence of tax fraud, and potentially be disqualified from running...
Suicide- Related Criminal Offences in Australia
It has been many years since laws which criminalised attempted suicide were repealed in states and territories across Australia. But over the past couple of decades, a sinister trend has emerged which can contribute to people making the tragic decision...
What is ‘Corrupt Conduct’ in New South Wales?
During last year’s ICAC hearings into the business affairs of former Liberal MP Daryl Maguire, the corruption watchdog quietly announced it would investigate another state politician- and no, not former premier Gladys Berejiklian, but the former NSW Minister for Sport...
Public Demands Accountability for Police Officers
The mid-1990s Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service uncovered evidence of entrenched corruption, which included state law enforcement officers selling heroin out the back of police stations, involved in running then illegal sex work services and trading in child pornography....
