Federal Government: Get Your Priorities Right!
Welcome to Australia 2021, once known as ‘the lucky country’, where the federal government is spending tens of billions of taxpayer dollars on nuclear-powered submarines in an effort to impress the US and UK, and act as a regional police...
NSW Supreme Court Rejects Challenges to Public Health Orders
More than a million people tuned in to the live stream of Kassam v Hazzard; Henry v Hazzard via the New South Wales Supreme Court’s YouTube channel over the past couple of weeks, many hoping for a judgement which invalidates...
Public Interest Disclosure Laws Stall as Government Interest Reigns
High-profile whistleblowers prosecutions - or political prosecutions, as some prefer - have become a prominent feature of the rule of the Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison regime, along with the guarding of state secrets to the point that the proposition of open government is...
Businesses Choose to Stay Closed Rather Than Discriminate
As Greater Sydney starts to open up this week, and a range of new public health orders come into force across the state, several businesses have chosen to remain closed until everyone is allowed entry, rather than refuse unvaccinated customers....
Calls on Police Minister to Curb Officers Flaunting Insignia Linked to White Supremacy
Reports of police officers wearing symbols associated with white supremacy or being captured on camera making symbols conveying the same racist message, have been increasing throughout a number of Australian jurisdictions over the past couple of years. The initial report...
Morrison Pushes Laws to Bury National Cabinet COVID Crisis Documents
At the state and federal levels, there were legislative mechanisms in place to respond to the public health crisis that is COVID-19. As these laws and regulations were drafted, the particular disease they would be applied to was unknown, but...
Police Profiling Intensifies Under COVID: An Interview With NUAA’s Dr Mary Ellen Harrod
The academic paper Policing Biosecurity sets out that of the people NSW police officers pulled up over a suspected COVID breach during the three months to 15 June last year, 45 percent were subsequently searched. However, in stark contrast, just...
Ban Pork Barrelling: Shoebridge on Laws to Criminalise the Shady Political Practice
The story is now well known. On 1 October, the Independent Commission Against Corruption announced it’s turning its investigation Operation Keppel upon then NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian’s conduct in relation to two specific instances of grants funding distribution. The ICAC...
Police Criticised for False Reports and Withholding Evidence Over Indigenous Death
Remains of the body of Indigenous man Gordon Copeland have been found just metres from where he disappeared three months ago. The young man went missing in July 2021, after he was last seen allegedly running from police. At the...
The Law, Defences and Penalties for Aggravated Animal Cruelty in New South Wales
Two teenagers have been charged over the alleged beating and killing of 14 kangaroos on the NSW South Coast, and will face court in November 2021. Police appealed to the community for help after the dead bodies of the kangarros...
