Report Confirms Endemic Misogyny and Racism Within Queensland Police Service
Established in May 2022, the Commission of Inquiry into Queensland Police Service responses to domestic and family violence publicly released its report, A Call for Change, last week. And what began as an investigation into a policing issue, led to a...
The Great China Reset: It’s a Little Too Early to Put Your Weapons Back in Storage
After months of continuing to rally against China as the enemy, Australian PM Anthony Albanese sat down to have a 32-minute diplomatic meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping, at the latter’s request, on 15 November 2022 in Bali, as the...
Sydney Police Constable Charged After Allegedly Threatening Junior Officers
A Sydney police officer is facing criminal charges after allegedly threatening two ‘rookies’. The 29-year old police constable has been charged with four offences: common assault, intimidation, causing danger with firearm, and neglect of duty, after an internal investigation found...
Morrison’s Multi-Ministry Power Grab Had Nothing to Do with the Pandemic
“In other words, Mr Morrison had been appointed to administer six of the fourteen departments of state,” former High Court Justice Virginia Bell remarks towards the beginning of her report into the Morrison multi-ministries scandal that came to light earlier this...
Court Calls for Cancellation of Clive’s Coalmine
Queensland’s Land Court has recommended the state government refuse a licence for the proposed Galilee Coal Project on the basis that it will unjustifiably impact on “the right to life, the cultural rights of First Nations peoples, the rights of...
Morrison’s Multiple Ministries: Power Grab Slammed and Justification Rubbished
The Inquiry into Multiple Ministerial Appointments has delivered its final report into former Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s secretive ‘self-appointment’ to several ministerial positions during his tenure as the nation’s leader, rubbishing his justifications for the power grab. The ‘Bell Inquiry’,...
This is a Police State: Restore the Right to Demonstrate
The footage of the attack upon Sydney protester Danny Lim on the part of two NSW police officers in plain view of the public, indeed in a main thoroughfare of the Queen Victoria Building, was not only brutal but it also...
Protecting Australian Whistleblowers: The Federal Roadmap Report
On the back of our nation’s chief lawmaker announcing that he’s set to overhaul federal public service whistleblower laws, which was made amidst rising calls to drop high-profile prosecutions, two of the nation’s experts on such protections have released a report on...
Police Assault on Lim Raises Questions About the Enforcement of Law in NSW
Sydney is aghast over the assault perpetrated upon nonviolent elderly protester Danny Lim by two police officers on Tuesday. And there’s much chatter on social media about the broader implications of this type of incident being carried out by officers who...
Thugs in Blue Uniform: NSW Police Assault Beloved Sydney Identity
He’s beloved around the Sydney CBD for his cheeky but peaceful protests, but Danny Lim is now in a “poor state” in hospital after sustaining injuries during a horrific and violent arrest by New South Wales police officers. 78-year old...
