Morrison’s Secret Concentration of Power Highlights Flaw in Our Democracy
Although it may not be strictly against the law, it is unsettling to many that former Prime Minister Scott Morrison instructed Governor-General David Hurley (pictured to the right) to appoint him to five ministries, including the powerful positions of Treasury...
NSW Police Claim Ignorance of the Law, As They Continue to Illegally Strip-Search Kids
More than 4,000 strip searches were carried out in New South Wales between July 2020 and May 2022 - 100 of them on children and young people. The alarming figures include more than 100 days of lockdown during the Covid...
NSW Premier Vows to End Bullying and Harassment in State Parliament
New South Wales Premiser Dominic Perrottet has vowed to put an end to the vitriol and toxicity in State Parliament, issuing a directive to ministers this week to cease inappropriate behaviours towards their colleagues, or face severe consequences including the...
Morrison’s Ministerial Deceits Exemplify a Democracy in Crisis
The revelations that Scott Morrison was moonlighting as a shadow minister holding five extra portfolios other than his own, have not only laid bare the extent to which authoritarian tendencies have crept into government, but they also indicate that recent...
Calls for PM to Keep Promise Regarding War Powers Reform
With a bill calling for change on how our nation enters an overseas conflict back on the Senate agenda for debate, Australians for War Powers Reform (AWPR) are calling on the Albanese government to follow through on its preelection promise to...
A Secret Consolidation of Power: Morrison Trashes Our Democratic System
The prime ministership wasn’t enough for Scott Morrison. Indeed, what’s become clear over recent days is he sought to secretly control other key ministries in the background, which gave him the ability to override any decisions the publicly sworn in...
The Commonwealth Offence of Possessing, Controlling Producing or Supplying Child Abuse Material
The New South Wales Police Force recently reported that on 22 May 2022, a 55-detective senior constable attached to a specialist command was arrested and charged with sexual assault, following an investigation by officers attached to the Professional Standards Command....
Reason Party’s Fiona Patten on Public Religious Hospitals Denying Abortion in Victoria, Which Andrews Will Continue
The Victorian government voted down Reason MLC Fiona Patten’s legislation that aimed to prevent denominational hospitals, or publicly funded Catholic hospitals, from denying patients certain legally sanctioned procedures due to the religious doctrine the institution adheres to. The Health Legislation Amendment...
NSW Bail Applications: Supreme Court Decisions on Section 22B of the Bail Act 2013
On Tuesday, 21 June 2022, the Bail Amendment Act No 27 was introduced into the New South Wales Parliament and passed by both Houses just two days later - with virtually no community consultation. The Act introduced a new section...
Prison Guard Charged with Murder of Aboriginal Detainee
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) NSW announced on 10 August that it was applying to the NSW Supreme Court to have a charge laid against a Corrective Services NSW (CSNSW) officer, who shot a Wiradjuri man in...
