Where Has All the Legal Medicinal Cannabis Gone?
A patient who uses medicinal cannabis to treat their ailments recently remarked in a social media forum that at present it’s taking their chemist at least two weeks from payment to fill their prescription for cannabis medicine. “They wonder why...
The Indefinite Detention Achilles Heel: An Interview With Human Rights For All’s Alison Battisson
The Magna Carta is a charter of rights that was drafted by the court of King John of England in 1215. And to this day, the eight-century-old document provides the foundational legal principles of our modern Australian democracy, including that...
Are Australia’s State Border Closures Justified?
A Victorian man intends to sue the State Government after being detained in quarantine. John-Lee Berridge says Victorian health authorities made a mistake about quarantine and he should not have been detained when Victoria suddenly shut the border to New...
NSW to Expand the Prison System, Yet Again
As Sisters Inside chief executive Debbie Kilroy put it to Sydney Criminal Lawyers in early 2017, building more prisons doesn’t alleviate overcrowding in the system, rather it simply means that fresh inmates are needed to fill vacant beds, with new...
COVID-19: What’s the Difference Between ‘Close Contact’ and ‘Casual Contact’?
As New South Wales and Victoria battle to keep new COVID cases to a minimum and outbreaks under control, a Sydney woman has been fined $2000 over allegations she breached public health orders while on holiday in Byron Bay. The...
Independent OPCAT Inspections Will Improve the Plight of Youth Detainees
Situated in the northern NSW town of Grafton, the Acmena Youth Justice Centre is one of six juvenile prisons being operated by Youth Justice NSW. At capacity, it holds 45 boys between the ages of 10 to 21 years. Over...
Gladys Makes Masks Mandatory in Greater Sydney
Premier Gladys Berejiklian has just made face masks mandatory in greater Sydney, as the region records seven locally acquired cases of Covid-19. The Public Health (COVID-19 Mandatory Face Coverings) Order 2021 makes it mandatory from midnight tonight – Saturday 2nd January, to...
Why Are Australian Governments Constructing the Surveillance State?
Peter Dutton saw his ASIO Bill passed on the last parliamentary sitting day for 2020. The home affairs minister most likely had a rare smile upon his face whilst exiting the chamber, as the nation’s domestic spying agency had been...
Federal Government’s New IR Laws: Further Weakening Employee Protections
Despite all the horrors and restrictions of the COVD-19 pandemic period, there was a positive moment towards the beginning that saw the federal Coalition displaying concerns about how everyday Australians on the ground were going to cope with the accompanying...
Heartless Government’s Automated System Threatens to Stop Pension Payments
Hundreds of pensioners have been left anxious and stressed over the holiday period after receiving letters from Centrelink which threatening to take away their pension payments. A Centrelink office in Northern New South Wales has confirmed being contacted by several...
