Domestic Violence Group Warns Proposed Coercive Control Laws Could Escalate Abuse
Domestic violence organisations have been advocating for the criminalisation of coercive control, a series of behaviours that usually sees males acting emotionally abusive towards female partners, and often it occurs in an escalating manner prior to intimate partner homicides. The...
The Offence of Importing a Commercial Quantity of Border Controlled Drugs into Australia
In an operation involving law enforcement agencies from several countries, a commercial quantity of liquid methamphetamine concealed in containers marked as ‘A Be Coco Coconut Water’ and allegedly headed for New South Wales has been seized in Hong Kong. ...
The Law, Defences and Penalties for Attempted Murder in New South Wales
A man has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly holding a New South Wales police sergeant’s head under water in a creek. It is further alleged that the man, 33-year old Ronald Charles Canning from Queensland, only stopped holding...
NSW Police Escalate Pre-Protest Visits to Activists’ Homes to Intimidate and Silence Dissent
When three NSW police officers turned up unannounced at rights activist Seth Dias’ home on 26 October to drill him about whether he’d be attending a protest this week, they made “explicitly clear” that they’d switched on their body cams before asking...
‘Covid Dictator’s’ Days in Politics are Done
New South Wales Health Minister Brad Hazzard is set to retire from politics after three decades in Parliament. While Mr Hazzard was instrumental in facilitating the decriminalisation of abortion in New South Wales in 2019, it is perhaps the years...
The Offence of Sexual Intercourse Without Consent in New South Wales
A Sydney pharmacist convicted of sexually assaulting a teenager who was seeking the ‘morning-after pill’ has had his pharmaceutical licence revoked. Mr Hany Ibrahim pleaded guilty to one count of sexual intercourse without consent in the NSW District Court last...
“A Case of Cultural Genocide”: Kathmandu Tibetan Refugee Welfare Office’s Karma Gyaltsen
These days, there are around 20,000 Tibetan refugees living in Nepal. This is a nation that shares a common border with the country Tibet, which is now referred to as the Tibetan Autonomous Region: a province of China. Although, the use...
Nationwide Vigils After White Man Bludgeons First Nations Youth to Death
A group of white men in a ute pulled up beside some teens walking home from school in the Perth suburb of Middle Swan on 13 October, and 21-year-old Jack Brearley jumped out and bashed 15-year-old Noongar boy Cassius Turvey to...
The Offence of Juror Misconduct in NSW: Section 68C Jury Act 1977
The long-awaited sexual assault trial of a federal Coalition staff member has been aborted after a juror was found to have used material which had not been admitted as evidence. Bruce Lehrmann, the man accused of sexually assaulting Britanny Higgins...
ACT Decriminalises Drug Possession: Labor MP Michael Pettersson on Forging Reform
That the century-old system of drug prohibition is a failure is well-established in legal circles, amongst medical experts, those who partake in illicit substances, families who’ve lost loved ones to the use of them, and a growing cross section of...
