Police Continue to Use Consorting Laws to Target the Most Vulnerable, Watchdog Finds
If a NSW police officer officially warns a civilian over the age of 14 to stop communicating with at least two convicted criminals, and the individual continues to interact with at least two of the cited past offenders on at...
Deputy President Will No Longer Hear Claims Regarding Vaccine Mandates
The Fair Work Commission’s Deputy President, Lyndall Dean, who expressed her views against vaccine mandates in a published judgement last month, has been banned from hearing vaccine-related cases and excluded from the Commission’s full bench until “she completes professional conduct...
Settler Colonial Justice: Constable Acquitted of Yamatji Woman JC’s Custodial Killing
Nothing protected Yamatji woman JC from a bullet fired by one of eight police officers who had surrounded the 29-year-old on a suburban street in the WA town of Geraldton on 7 September 2019, but the full force of the...
NSW Police Officer Sent to Prison for Lying in Court
A New South Wales Police Officer has been sentenced to imprisonment for unlawfully arresting a woman and lying about the details of her arrest. Senior Constable Mark Follington was sentenced to a minimum jail term of 18 months. He violently...
Victoria Police Settles Brutality Case for $11.75 Million
Victoria Police has agreed to settle a case of brutality for $11.75 million - an amount which will be paid from public funds. In 2017, Chris Karadaglis was at home, alone, listening to music when police knocked on his front...
With No Bill of Rights, Kassam v Hazzard Was Bound to Fail: An Interview With Professor George Williams
NSW Supreme Court Justice Robert Beech-Jones delivered his ruling on the Kassam versus Hazzard case, which raised close to a dozen grounds contesting the validity of public health order restrictions, as well as vaccine mandates, which have recently been imposed...
Legislating to End the Forced Removals of First Nations Children in NSW
The policy of forcibly removing Indigenous children from their families is common to the settler colonial nations that were established by the British Empire, which are today known as the United States, Canada and Australia. In this country, the practice...
What is a ‘Conspiracy’ in the Commonwealth Criminal Law?
A Sydney man accused of serious drug offences is on the run from the police after allegedly disabling his ankle monitor while on bail. Northern Beaches restauranter Mostafa Baluch is alleged to have financed a major cocaine importation syndicate. He...
Workers Push Back Against Covid-19 Vaccination Mandates
More than 100 people have joined a legal challenge in Victoria against the state’s mandated vaccination policies. The policy of requiring workers in certain industries to obtain COVID-19 vaccinations has forced millions of authorised workers including construction workers, teachers, aged...
Morrison Is Detaining Refugees With Compromised Health Inside COVID Hotspot
As of Sunday evening, 23 of the 46 Medevac refugees currently being held long-term in the Park Hotel in the Melbourne inner city suburb of Carlton have contracted the Delta strain of the COVID-19 virus. Unlike other COVID outbreaks occurring...
