Increase in Corruption Complaints Against Home Affairs is a Positive Sign, Watchdog Claims
The federal law enforcement watchdog has asserted that an increase in corruption referrals regarding the Department of Home Affairs doesn’t indicate a rise in dishonest conduct, but rather displays a “growing maturity” within the ministry’s “integrity arrangements”. The Australian Commission...
The ICAC and NSW Corruption Offences
Counsel assisting the ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption) Scott Robertson SC wrote to premier Gladys Berejiklian on 21 October notifying her that in December, he’ll be issuing his draft submission relating to the evidence unearthed at recent hearings involving her....
The Netflix Access Scam: How Did the Mastermind Do it?
A Sydney IT professional is facing prison time after pleading guilty to criminal charges involving a scam that made him almost a million dollars over a three-year period. Software developer Evan McMahon’s sophisticated scheme was originally uncovered by the FBI,...
Morrison Is Fast Turning Australia Into a Climate Pariah
Along with a number of other world leaders, prime minister Scott Morrison received an official invitation on 22 October 2020, asking him to join an online global climate summit, as the usual UN climate conference – the COP – has...
The Offence of Child Sexual Assault in New South Wales
A 65 year old man has been arrested and charged with the sexual assault of a boy in Sydney more than 30 years ago. NSW Police allege the man sexually assaulted a boy, then aged between 10 and 14 years...
Is Accountability Finally Coming for Aboriginal Deaths in Custody?
NSW state coroner Teresa O’Sullivan made a landmark decision last week, when she cut short the inquest into the death of 43-year-old Wiradjuri man Dwayne Johnstone and referred the matter to the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to consider...
The Defence of Mental Illness in New South Wales
A New South Wales man who killed his baby girl by throwing her into the Tweed River has been found not guilty of murder by reason of mental illness. Justice Helen Wilson said in her special verdict in the Supreme...
Calls for Police Officers to Stop Strip-Searching Kids
In the past year, NSW police officers have strip-searched 96 children and more than 20 percent of them were Indigenous. In one case, the child was only 11 years old. New figures obtained under Freedom of Information laws also show...
Freeing the Refugees Will Free Our Nation: Craig Foster Calls Game Over
Former Socceroo and current human rights campaigner Craig Foster and NRL star Sonny Bill Williams were down in Canberra last week to present federal parliament with a petition calling on the government to accept New Zealand’s offer to resettle refugees...
Strip Searching Women is Routine in Australia
Australians were justifiably outraged when they learnt last week that dozens of women - including thirteen citizens of this country -were taken off a Sydney-bound plane sitting on the tarmac at the international airport in Doha, capital of Qatar, and...
