Youth Detainees Continue to Be Routinely Strip Searched in NSW
The NSW Ombudsman has just released a report into the contentious full body strip searching of three youth detainees at Frank Baxter Youth Justice Centre in November 2019 by Corrective Services NSW (CSNSW) officers, who’d been called in to deal...
What is a Pecuniary Penalty Order in New South Wales?
A man has been fined $11,000 for stealing more than 12 tonnes of fish from the drought-stricken Darling River. Shaun Russsell Cox stole the fish from the Darling River in NSW between Wentworth and Wilcannia and then sold the fish...
Dutton Puts Aussies at Risk Through His Rhetoric and Actions Towards China
The newly minted Australian defence minister has further turned up the volume on the war with China rhetoric. This time Peter Dutton’s backing a plan to rotate larger numbers of US troops through the Northern Territory, as well as for...
Should Companies that Profited During COVID Repay JobKeeper?
Retailer Harvey Norman is one of several large corporations that have refused to pay back JobKeeper subsidies despite making record profits during COVID-19. The companies have maintained their stance despite public pressure repay the money, which was intended to keep...
The Law, Penalties and Defences Relating to Money Laundering in New South Wales
A Sydney millionaire has been arrested and charged after police claim to have found $7 million dollars in a backyard bunker. Well known businessman, 39-year old Hugo Jacobs was arrested at Sydney Airport before boarding a flight to Dubai after...
Extinction Rebellion Shuts Down Nation’s Largest Port, With Union Approval
A cadre of Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists braved the pelting rain on 10 June to successfully shut down the transport of liquid fuel coming out of Port Botany for over four hours. It was the coldest NSW day for 37...
Government to Pay $1.8 Billion Over Illegal Robodebt Extortion Scheme
A Federal Court judge has approved a $1.8 billion settlement for victims of the Federal Government’s illegal Robodebt recovery scheme, while at the same time delivering a scathing assessment of the government’s failure in ‘public administration’. The approval signals the...
Dungays Take NSW Government to the United Nations, Backed by Legal Heavyweights
Aunty Leetona Dungay has resolved to take both the Australian and the NSW governments to the United Nations to seek justice in relation to the killing of her son David Dungay Junior at the hands of Long Bay Gaol prison...
Federal Government Continues ‘Publicly Funded Torture’ of Biloela Family
As yet another petition does the rounds on social media, aimed at putting pressure on the Federal Government to release the Tamil Family that has been detained on Christmas Island for years, the new Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews has...
PM’s Continuing ‘War on Drugs’ Rhetoric Ignores That There’s a Better Way
During an 8 June press conference, PM Scott Morrison called on Australians to reject illicit drug use, as “it fuels organised crime in this country, as well as “human misery” here and in many “parts of the world”. The prime...
