Mounting Political Prosecutions Indicate Authoritarian Creep Continues Under Albanese
The Independent National Security Legislation Monitor last week held public hearings regarding the National Security Information (Criminal and Civil Proceedings) Act 2004 (Cth), as it’s inquiring into the impact it’s had on recent cases, especially the prosecutions of Witness K and...
The Criminal Offence of Sexual Touching Without Consent
It has been reported that Tim Mathieson, who is the ex-partner of former Australia prime minister Julia Gillard, will plead guilty in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court to intentionally sexually touching a woman without her consent in Melbourne’s CBD on 13 March...
NSW Police Propose ‘Domestic Violence Diary’ App for Complainants to Record and Log Abuse
The NSW Police Force has recently unveiled an app they say is designed to assist victims to combat domestic violence by recording and logging alleged abuse, but there are concerns about whether this would make any real difference as well...
Dutton at the Helm Would Only Hasten the AUKUS Dive Into Broadened US Control
The fever pitch for war on China continues to grow, as the AUSMIN conference, an annual meeting of the US and Australian foreign and defence ministers, is set to take place in Brisbane this week, as US defence secretary Lloyd Austin...
The Offence of Using a Carriage Service to Procure a Child Under 16 for Sexual Activity
The deputy principal at a high school in Sydney’s south-west has been sentenced to more than three and a half years behind bars for sexting who he believed to be a 14-year old girl. Damian Wanstall’s LinkedIn profile hasn’t been...
US Citizens Will Effectively Decide Whether Our Nation’s Constituents Enter War With China
As Australians for War Powers Reform (AWPR) pointed out recently, the nations of France, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Spain and Norway, all “require parliamentary approval for overseas troop deployments” to conflicts that have broken out on foreign soil. However, “by contrast, the Australian...
There’s a Desperate Need for Reform in the NSW Police Force
Lifeless bodies are piling up in this state as a result of NSW police, which, as of mid-May, has fatally tasered a great-grandmother and shot dead two others, which are tragedies that have involved trigger-happy officers reaching for weapons to...
Taxpayers Will Fund Any Criminal Defence Scott Morrison May Face
Federal Attorney General Mark Dreyfus has ensured Australian taxpayers will foot the bill for any criminal charges or civil proceedings brought against his colleague Scott Morrison over the former prime minister’s responsibility for ensuring his government’s Robodebt extortion scheme continued...
Minns Needs to End the NSW War on People Who Use Drugs, as Have the ACT Labor-Greens
The onset of ongoing extreme weather events locally, the shutdown of the entire community due to the outbreak of a deadly virus, rent and mortgage prices skyrocketing and a general cost-of-living crisis have not served to dampen the fervour of...
Robodebt Report Reveals Federal Government’s Obsessive Demonisation of the Unemployed
Making jibes about welfare recipients, or dole bludgers, in the popular disparaging parlance, has, for decades, been an easy way to score political points, in a practice where those without employment and in need of a helping hand, are often...
