Just Another Day in the Colony: State Violence Towards First Nations Continues
Just released by the ABC, March 2018 CCTV footage showing NT police assaulting and abusing young First Nations boys in the Alice Springs lockup is not only sickening, but it’s yet more proof that while many consider the colonial project...
So, This Is Xmas: Refugee Rights Rally at the PM’s Horizon Church
The Biloela family - Nades, Priya, and their daughters: 5-year-old Kopika and 3-year-old Tharunicaa - are about to spend their third Christmas locked up in immigration detention. And this is despite them having lived amongst the community in central Queensland...
Drug Law Reform Is Desperately Needed, Yet Berejiklian Refuses to See Reason
The Australian response to the COVID-19 pandemic for the most part has been successful and a very welcome change as science and public health advice is given its due prominence in such health policy decisions. The need for greater investment...
Toxic Culture Persists Within the NSW Police Force
The New South Wales Police Force has dismissed two police officers after it was discovered that at least nine officers from Botany Bay Local Area Command started a closed WhatsApp group in 2017, in which they exchanged numerous sexualised, inappropriate...
Police Officer Threatens to ‘Belt the F***’ Out of Indigenous Teens
Shocking CCTV footage from the Alice Springs watchhouse showing a police officer shoving and verbally abusing a teenage boy before threatening to “belt the fuck out” of three others has emerged this week. The footage was taken in 2018, but...
What is a Defended Hearing in New South Wales?
Australian actor Craig McLachlan has been found not guilty of 13 criminal charges, stemming from allegations made by four fellow cast members of The Rocky Horror Show. Mr McLachlan, probably best known for his television roles in Neighbours, Home and...
Tony Mokbel’s Drug Conviction Quashed
And so the fallout from the Lawyer X scandal continues. Drug kingpin Tony Mokbel has had his conviction for the importation of cocaine quashed by Victoria’s Court of Appeal as a result of the Lawyer X scandal, on the basis...
NSW Police Officer Criticises the Use of Excessive Force Against Protesters
In a widely-distributed open letter to NSW police commissioner Mick Fuller, a senior member of the NSW Police Force Public Order and Riot Squad has drawn attention to a situation that’s seen “excessive force” being deployed by state police with...
The Offence of Murder in NSW
A man has been charged with murder after a fatal stabbing at a Newcastle petrol station The 24 year old was charged after allegedly stabbing a 54 year old man at a petrol station in Newcastle just after 8pm on...
The Rules Relating to Commencing and Discontinuing Criminal Prosecutions in NSW
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in Victoria is facing a barrage of criticism after withdrawing the criminal charges against a de-frocked Catholic Priest. The complainant, now in her early 60s, has spent nearly a decade trying...
