NSW Police Officers Under Investigation for Assaulting NRL Player
The three New South Wales Police Officers who punched NRL player Tom Starling multiple times in the face during a violent arrest on 5 December 2020 are now under investigation and could face criminal charges over the assault. The incident occurred...
Medicare Denial Sees Correctives Systems Destroy Prisoner Health to the Detriment of All
Australians are proud of Medicare: the 1984-established scheme that provides free or heavily subsidised universal healthcare to citizens and residents. This is especially so, when compared with the health system in the US, which, without such a scheme, only cares...
NSW Police Force is Brutalising Citizens Without Sufficient Records, Let Alone Accountability
The recent lethal tasering of 95-year-old great-grandmother Clare Nowland, who was holding a steak knife and suffering dementia, has again brought into stark relief the use of excessive force by NSW police: an issue that despite its prevalence, tends to gradually subside...
What Is a ‘Concerns Notice’ Under Defamation Laws in New South Wales?
Former Federal Defence Minister, Linda Reynolds, has sent a letter of concern - a pre-emptive signal of potentially launching a defamation suit - against Environment Minister, Tanya Plibersek in the latest spin-off lawsuit from the high profile criminal prosecution of...
What Will a Court Consider When Determining Bail in NSW?
The man accused of causing the deaths of several passengers after the bus he was driving overturned in the Hunter Valley last Sunday night has been granted strict conditional bail. 58-year old Brett Button from Maitland in the Hunter Region...
What Conduct Amounts to ‘Dangerous Driving’ in New South Wales?
Police will allege speeding was a factor in the weekend’s horror bus crash in the Hunter Valley, which resulted in the deaths of 10 passengers and more than 20 being admitted to hospital. The bus was carrying 36 passengers when...
UK Rejects Assange’s Appeal Against Extradition, Despite Global Campaign for Freedom
UK High Court Justice Jonathan Swift last Thursday denied Julian Assange’s July 2022-lodged final appeal against US extradition, which then UK home secretary Priti Patel had greenlighted the month prior. This has meant the WikiLeaks founder has spent another year in...
Higgins, Wilkinson, Lehrmann: Heroes or Victims?
In years to come, the criminal prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann over ultimately unproven allegations of sexual assault in Parliament House is likely to become a case study for students of law, and may even inform the way in which such...
The NSW Police State: Excessive Force, Lethal Assault, Strip Searches and Dog Monitoring
The lethal tasering of 95-year-old Clare Nowland, who, suffering dementia, was holding a steak knife and approaching a NSW police senior constable at such a pace with the aid of her walking frame that he felt he had no choice but...
The Time Is Ripe for Drug Law Reform in New South Wales
NSW Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann hit the opening of the 58th NSW parliament running, as she moved four notices of motion on its second day indicating soon-to-be-tabled bills on key drug law reforms: pill testing, cannabis legalisation, a medical cannabis driving defence and decriminalisation....
