Police Powers to Deal With Intoxicated Persons in New South Wales
Victoria says it will formally decriminalise public drunkenness on the 7th of November 2023, which would leave Queensland as the only jurisdiction in Australia where public intoxication remains a criminal offence. New South Wales formally decriminalised public drunkenness way back...
The Offence of Failing to Vote at an Australian Election or Referendum
On the 14th of October 2023, Australians will have their say in a referendum about whether to change the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing a body called the ‘Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice’. Voters...
Bipartisan Persecution of McBride and Boyle Continues
Independent for Clark Andrew Wilkie raised a motion in the Australian House of Representatives on 6 September, calling on the government to use the power it has to “discontinue the politically-motivated prosecutions” of whistleblowers David McBride and Richard Boyle. Heralded as...
Consumer Watchdog Investigates eHarmony Over Alleged Misleading Conduct
As tens of thousands of single Australians continue to turn to dating apps to find companionship and love, the price of meeting someone special keeps getting higher. And although many people are prepared to pay the hefty prices, the ACCC...
Outrage Grows Over NSW Government’s Backflip on Drug Law Reform
NSW premier Chris Minns last week shattered the drug law reform agenda he’d been spruiking pre-election. The Labor leader has pushed his drug summit back to the end of the term and said he has “no mandate” for decriminalising drugs...
‘Sextortion’ Can Amount to a Criminal Offence Across Australia
According to recent media reports, there has been a rise of attempts as Australia at ‘sexual extortion’, abbreviated to ‘sextortion’, with social media sites being used to target and blackmail victims, many of whom are young men concerned about compromising...
NSW Parliament Inquires into Alternatives in Dealing with Mental Health Episodes
Since a NSW police officer tasered a 95-year-old woman suffering dementia, who was holding a knife and slowly moving towards him using a walking frame in May, the issue of law enforcement dealing with people having a mental health episode has been...
AFP Says AI Image Database Will Help Catch Predators, But Many are Skeptical
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) are appealing to members of the public to donate their childhood photos to a project being undertaken jointly with Monash University. The agency says the photos will be used to programme and train an Artificial...
Aussie Support for Assange Skyrockets, But US Ambassador’s Claims of a Plea Deal May Be Untrue
A delegation of six Australian politicians from across the political spectrum will travel to Washington later this month, the Assange Campaign announced on Wednesday, in an attempt to secure the immediate release of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange from London’s Belmarsh prison....
William Tyrell’s Foster Parents in Court Over Alleged Child Abuse
The foster parents of the young boy whose disappearance in 2014 has captivated the nation, exposed the shady operations of senior police officers, ruined the lives of innocent people through false accusations and cost the public millions in compensation and...
