Brittany Higgins Inquiry: DPP Accused of Withholding Evidence from the Defence
The failure to disclose material to the defence, the potential for bias in the enforcement process and the pressure to prosecute allegations of sexual offences despite the tenuous nature of the evidence are issues at the forefront of the Inquiry...
National Security Law Monitor Calls for the Abolition of Continuing Detention Orders
Post-sentence order regimes are playing an increasing role in criminal justice systems across Australia. These frameworks permit further restrictions to be applied to an offender, usually classed as high-risk or a person convicted of a terrorism offence, after their court-imposed...
Politicised Policing in NSW Sees Bail, Remand and Adjournments Used to Silence Dissent
Right now, in this country, as is happening elsewhere across the planet, those who are defending climate and mobilising against destructive greenhouse gas emitting industries are being demonised and criminalised in an effort to see the public disregard them as...
Class Action Commenced Over Covid-19 Vaccine Injuries
A class action against the Australian Government over Covid-19 vaccination injuries has been filed in the Federal Court. More than 500 people are part of the class action, filed against (at least) the Australian Government, the Department of Health and...
Can You Be Found Guilty of Drug Possession for Handling Drugs Without Your Knowledge?
A Sydney UberEats driver recently discovered that the package she was asked to deliver contained crystal methamphetamine. The driver became suspicious of the package and reported it to police, receiving a one star review from the would-be drug supplier as...
Government Continues Callous Mistreatment of Refugees, Despite Community Embrace
Mostafa Azimitabar has been announced a finalist in this year’s Art Gallery of NSW Sulman Prize. And this is following the Kurdish refugee, who spent seven years detained by our government on Manus Island, having succeed in making it as...
New Deportation Regime Fails Terminally Ill Father of Six Australian Children
Robert Taylor was recently diagnosed with lung cancer and, as the disease has commenced spreading to his bones, the UK-born 50-year-old father of six Australian kids and nine grandchildren is afraid his time is running out. In a sign of...
Conditional Release Orders in New South Wales
Former NRL star Brett Stewart has pleaded guilty to cocaine possession. The Former Manly Sea Eagles star and part-time coach was arrested last month after police witnessed him making an illegal drug deal on a suburban street on the Northern...
WA Kids in Adult Prison Crisis Worsens, Despite State Having Proven Punitive Measures Fail
Civil society groups and the judiciary had long been breathing down the neck of WA’s Banksia Hill child prison in regard to its abuse of inmates via the use of solitary confinement, when last July, after further unrest, the authorities sent...
Should Those Involved in Tax Fraud Schemes be Sent to Prison?
Lauren Cranston will spend at least five years behind bars for her role in the hundred million dollar Plutus Payroll tax fraud scheme. The 30-year old is the daughter of Michael Cranston, a former deputy commissioner of the Australian Taxation...
