Truth-Telling: Activist Stephen Langford on Facing Time Over Craft Gluing a Colonial Statue
The Black Lives Matter-Stop Black Deaths in Custody movement erupted in Sydney last June. Despite COVID lockdown restrictions only just being lifted, thousands took to the streets, as they challenged the tired and wearying official narrative around the British takeover of...
Court Reveals Identity of Lawyer Charged with Aggravated Sexual Assault
It may be common knowledge in the legal profession, but the name of a Sydney criminal defence lawyer charged with aggravated sexual assault has now been made public, after the lawyer’s appeal against the Local Court’s refusal to grant a...
The Offence of Conspiracy to Defraud the Commonwealth
It’s a trial with all the hallmarks of a great blockbuster movie. Two siblings, Adam and Lauren Cranston, whose father is the former deputy commissioner of the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), along with lawyer Dev Menon and referrer Jay Onley,...
Season’s Greetings: Australia Continues its Inhumane Treatment of Refugees
When Australian Border Force officials called the former offshore refugee detainees - who’d been locked up in Melbourne’s Mantra Hotel for over a year - to a 14 December meeting, the 60-odd men were well aware that five other Medevac...
As the Climate Crisis Accelerates, Morrison Shrugs Off a Future for Short-Term Profit
Due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, the regular UN climate conference - COP26 - was postponed. But rather than simply forget about the ever-intensifying impacts of the climate crisis, the UK, France and the United Nations teamed up to run...
NSW Police Fatally Shoot Young Man in Sydney
The family of a young apprentice tradesman from Sydney who was shot dead by police just days before Christmas is calling for a Royal Commission into his death. 20-year old Bradley Balzan was walking to the shops at St Marys...
Lawyers for Bail Applications at Parramatta Bail Court
Bail is a promise to attend court on the next court date. It can be unconditional, or come with conditions such as reporting to a police station on specific days, not associating with certain persons or attending certain places, and...
NSW Authorities Are Routinely Strip Searching Youth Inmates as Young as 10
Contained in a recently released NSW Inspector of Custodial Services report, revelations around Sydney’s Mary Wade Correctional Centre routinely strip searching women imprisoned within the state-run facility sparked public outrage. This was especially so as it came on the back...
Federal Government Seeks Greater Control Over Online Content
While the world of social media can be fun, informative and entertaining. It also enabled people a forum in which to espouse their opinions – a chance for people to say what they think on a range of issues and...
LECC Calls on Parliament to Review NSW Police Strip Search Protocols
The “recurrent issue” this state’s independent police watchdog found during the seven investigations into NSW police use of strip searches is that officers are failing to comply with the “legal thresholds for conducting a strip search”. Released on 15 December,...
