New South Wales: The Kidnapping Capital of Australia
More than 500 people were abducted across the nation in the past financial year, according to figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Out of 534 kidnappings and abductions nationwide, 225 of them were in New South Wales....
Mobilising Against the Invasion: An Interview With FISTT’s Tameeka Tighe
The 26 January this year marks 233 years since the first lot of British boat arrivals entered the waters of this continent and began to unleash a colonial project that involved the dispossession of First Nations people from their lands...
The Offence of Unauthorised Access to Restricted Data in New South Wales
There are fresh warnings for social media users to be careful about what they post online, after information from more than 214 million Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn accounts - including 1.7 million Australian accounts - was found on an unsecured...
Free David Ridgeway: Footage Captures Police Assaulting Aboriginal Man
The camera phone is already capturing footage as the car containing the witnesses filming the 29 December incident pulls up at the corner of a small back street in the southwestern Sydney suburb of Airds, where police officers are wrestling...
Assange’s Momentary Reprieve Opens Way for More Torture and US Extradition on Appeal
For a brief moment, the globe was shocked that a UK court ruled against the extradition of Australian journalist Julian Assange to the US, where he would face an 18 count Virginia District Court indictment, carrying an accumulated maximum penalty...
Federal Government Agency Issues Warning About QR Codes
Quick Response (QR) codes have become ingrained into our everyday lives. They were introduced across New South Wales in 2020 as part of the State Government’s response to Covid-19, offering a simple, effective way for business to collect information from...
The Offence of Contravening an Apprehended Violence Order in NSW
The former deputy mayor of Auburn, Salim Majer, has found himself in hot water again, this time accused of contravening an Apprehended Violence Order (AVO) taken out for the protection of his former-partner. Police applied for the AVO last year,...
Donald Trump Permanently Suspended from Twitter
Scenes of the mob attack on US Congress earlier this week shocked the world. Five people have died as a result of Trump supporters breaking into the US Capitol Building last week disrupting the certification of Joe Biden as the...
Morrison’s Proposed Data Sharing Bonanza Involves Your Personal Details
Over recent years, numerous publications have declared data the most valuable resource on the planet, even trumping oil. And when the Coalition government became aware of this, it commenced rubbing its hands together in glee, as it found itself sitting...
Desperate Detainees Riot on Christmas Island Over Indefinite Detention
Two of the three compounds currently in operation at the Christmas Island immigration facility were set ablaze in the early hours of Wednesday morning, as a small number of detainees protested against their unjust and indefinite detention. The demonstrators are...
