Senate Probe Reveals that Albanese is Not Taking Action on Assange
Award-winning Australian journalist and truth-teller Julian Assange has been remanded in custody on behalf of the United States in London’s notorious Belmarsh Prison for three years now. The UK’s treatment of the Wikileaks founder inside has been deemed torture by the...
Google Fined for Unlawfully Collecting Australian Consumer Data
Google and the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission’s (ACCC’s) long running battle over the unlawful collection of data has been settled with the tech giant agreeing to pay $60 million. In April 2021, the Federal Court found that Google had...
First Nations Prison Rate Climbs, Despite Pandemic Drop in Overall Inmate Numbers
The NSW Bureau of Crimes Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) just released its state custody figures for June 2022, which indicate that inmate numbers have continued on with their downward spiral that commenced at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Mid-year, there...
Corrective Services Officers Strike Over Upgrading of Charges Against Colleague
More than 5,000 New South Wales Corrective Services officers are on a 24-hour strike in protest over the upgrading of a colleague’s charges from manslaughter to murder following a review by the Office of Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) into...
Government Will Keep its Crimes a Secret, While Continuing to Prosecute Whistleblowers
Attorney general Mark Dreyfus’ decision to drop the Bernard Collaery prosecution on 7 July was praised, as the ACT barrister was facing multiple charges over allegedly exposing our nation having bugged the Timor-Leste cabinet offices in 2004 to gain unfair advantage...
Suicide- Related Criminal Offences in Australia
It has been many years since laws which criminalised attempted suicide were repealed in states and territories across Australia. But over the past couple of decades, a sinister trend has emerged which can contribute to people making the tragic decision...
What is ‘Corrupt Conduct’ in New South Wales?
During last year’s ICAC hearings into the business affairs of former Liberal MP Daryl Maguire, the corruption watchdog quietly announced it would investigate another state politician- and no, not former premier Gladys Berejiklian, but the former NSW Minister for Sport...
Voice to Parliament May Threaten First Nations Sovereignty, Warns Thorpe
“How does your proposed constitutionally enshrined Indigenous voice to parliament affect First Nations peoples’ sovereignty in this country?” Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe asked Senator Penny Wong in parliament on 1 August. This question asserts the chief concern that First Nations rights...
What is a Parliamentary Inquiry in New South Wales?
Former New South Wales deputy premier John Barilaro has appeared before a parliamentary committee into his lucrative yet controversial appointment as a trade commissioner to the United States. Despite evidence presented to the inquiry which suggests that his appointment may...
Public Demands Accountability for Police Officers
The mid-1990s Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service uncovered evidence of entrenched corruption, which included state law enforcement officers selling heroin out the back of police stations, involved in running then illegal sex work services and trading in child pornography....
