Thailand Uses Efficient Transport Options, While Control and Revenue-Raising Prevail in Australia
The traffic in the Thai capital of Bangkok is notorious for its congestion, especially at peak periods. During morning or evening “rush” hours, a forty-five-minute crosstown journey can take double that or even crack the two-hour mark. And we all...
Officer Charged with Fabricating Evidence, But His Victim Explains that Coverups Run Deep
When NSW police constable Daniel Keneally answered the phone at Newtown Police Station on 24 February 2021 to speak to the caller, Luke Brett Moore, neither man knew the other. Wanting to discuss this state’s police misuse of strip searches,...
UN Rules Australian Climate Inaction Is Violating Torres Strait Islander Rights
The UN Human Rights Commission found on 22 September, that the Australian government is indeed failing the peoples of the low-lying Torres Strait Islands, due to its refusal to take adequate action on the climate crisis, which in turn, is adversely impacting...
Hands Off Assange! US and UK Citizens Stand in Solidarity with Truth-Teller
Many had high hopes that current Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, would make good on his pre-election rhetoric calling for an end to the persecution of award-winning Australian journalist Julian Assange, by pressuring the United Kingdom to allow him to...
Let’s Legalise It: Senator Shoebridge on Legislating Lawful Cannabis Nationwide
Since Australian Greens Senator David Shoebridge announced he’ll be introducing legislation into federal parliament with the aim of legalising cannabis for recreational use, there’s been a distinct feeling in the air that this is going to come to fruition. And...
The Offence of Knowingly Providing False or Misleading Information to a Commonwealth Entity
Former One Nation senator, current Great Australian Party Leader and self-styled ‘senator in exile’ Rod Culleton has vowed to fight charges that he knowingly provided false or misleading information to a Commonwealth entity. The basis of the allegations The charges...
NSW Police Officer Accused of Tampering with Evidence to Support False Criminal Charges
A New South Wales police officer has been charged with one count of tampering with evidence after an investigation by the state’s police watchdog, the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission, found that he falsely claimed that a member of the public...
NSW Parliament to Consider Medicinal Cannabis Defence to Drug Driving
“The current outdated roadside drug testing laws have very real impacts on the people of NSW, who should not have to choose between being in pain and losing their jobs,” said NSW Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann in relation to people...
Corruption Will Continue to be Hidden, Under Proposed Federal Anti-Corruption Commission
Attorney general Mark Dreyfus introduced legislation into federal parliament on 28 September to establish the fabled anticorruption watchdog, which Coalition leader Peter Dutton has indicated his party will likely support, after it dragged its feet on the issue during the Morrison...
Man Suspected of Drug Driving Dies in Police Custody
A 25-year old man from the South West Slopes region of New South Wales has died after being arrested over suspicions of drug driving. The case has raised concerns about whether police officers are adequately trained when it comes to...
