Manslaughter of Mhelody Bruno Exposes Institutional Bias in Criminal Justice System
The outcome of the trial of Rian Toyer - the former Royal Australian Air Force officer guilty of the manslaughter of Mhelody Bruno - has raised warranted questions around systemic bias within the Australian criminal justice system and the privilege...
The Offence of Intentionally or Recklessly Destroying or Damaging Property in NSW
A 21 year old has been handed a community correction order and ordered to pay more than $40,000 after a boozy night he says he was too drunk to remember. During sentencing proceedings in Downing Centre Local Court, the Presiding...
Strip-Searched Teen Loses Bid to Have Her Case Heard in All-Female Courtroom
An Indigenous girl who was 15 years old when strip-searched by police has lost her bid to have her case heard in an all-female courtroom. The girl’s lawyers made an application in Wagga Wagga Children’s Court for men, including the...
Domestic Violence Workers Plead for Adequate Funding
Frontline and support workers are pleading for government to provide sufficient funding for domestic violence services, after reporting the ‘worst year on record’ for family violence. Around the globe, domestic violence cases spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns last year...
Corrections Criminally Liable Over First Nations Custody Deaths, Says Former NSW Magistrate David Heilpern
The 15th of April marks 30 years since the Royal Commission Into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody handed down its final report, which made 339 recommendations aimed at preventing First Nations custodial deaths. Most of these recommendations, however, have never been...
Federal Coalition’s Persistent Culture Wars Could Be Its Undoing
According to Institute of Public Affairs executive director John Roskam, Scott Morrison doesn’t go in for culture wars, as he’s too concerned with creating jobs. And, as the struggle to promote one ideology over all others fails to generate employment,...
NSW Police Arrest First Nations Teenager as She’s Having Panic Attack
Two First Nations teens were driving through Darlington on the night of 25 March, when one of them, Tarneisha Widders, started to have a panic attack. So, the pair pulled over on Vine Street in the inner city Sydney suburb,...
“A Brazen Pork-Barrel Scheme”: Inquiry Condemns Berejiklian’s Grant Allocating as Political
The initial report from the NSW parliamentary inquiry into state grant schemes distributed under the Berejiklian government doesn’t mince words in its assessment of how the Coalition has allocated public money in an attempt to consolidate its power and appease...
Parliament Proposes ID Checks to Open Social Media Accounts
A recent federal parliament inquiry into family, domestic and sexual violence has made 88 recommendations to combat growing violence in those areas, including several aimed at stopping online abuse. One of those recommendations is that social media account holders be...
“A Fundamental Attack on the Rule of Law”: Shoebridge on NSW Police Intimidating Lawyer
NSW Greens MLC David Shoebridge sent out a quick succession of social media messages late on 26 March, setting out the most outrageous details from a police watchdog report, involving an inquiry into two NSW police officers intimidating a solicitor...
