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NSW Police Officer Charged With Possessing Child Abuse Material

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A 42-year old police officer based in Coffs Harbour in northern New South Wales has been charged with two counts of possessing child abuse material. Following an investigation by the New South Wales Police Force Professional Standards Command (PSC), detectives...

The Offence of Serious Animal Cruelty in New South Wales

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Domestic Violence is on the rise in Australia, along with trends globally as a result of increased stress, anxiety and financial hardship from Covid-19. Both here and around the world, those working at the front line of domestic, family and...

The Offence of Dangerous Driving Occasioning Grievous Bodily Harm in NSW

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A 58-year old driver has been charged with a number of serious driving offences after the conclusion of an investigation relating to a collision that occurred earlier this year. Emergency services were called to the intersection of Memorial Avenue and...

Quit the Bullshit and Tell the Truth News Corp, Demands Extinction Rebellion

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“We are here as Extinction Rebellion asking and demanding that News Corp quits the bullshit and tells the truth,” said XR Sydney spokesperson Larissa Payne out the front of the News Corp offices in Surry Hills at around 8.30 am...

Charged with Drug Driving? Have a Cannabis Prescription? Speak to Former Magistrate David Heilpern

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Former NSW Magistrate David Heilpern is on a mission. It entails bringing about substantial reforms to the unjust roadside drug testing regime that’s currently operated by NSW police and only being bolstered by the Berejiklian government. The first change Heilpern...

“Free People Into the Community”: Debbie Kilroy on the Queensland COVID Prison Crisis

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Right now, Queensland correctional facilities from Bundaberg down to the NSW border are in hard lockdown following prison officers having tested positive to COVID-19 for a second time in recent weeks. And somewhat unsurprisingly, inmates have been rioting at a...

Failure to Press Criminal Charges over Tanya Day’s Custody Death Reflects Wider Injustice for First Nations

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The decision not to charge two Victoria police officers that the state coroner suggested could potentially be found criminally negligent in relation to the ultimately fatal treatment that Tanya Day received whilst being held in police custody has left a...

Police Arrest Pregnant Woman Over Social Media Post

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Welcome to the state of Victoria, September 2020, where police officers walk into a 28-year old, pregnant woman’s home, handcuff and arrest her in front of her child while she is wearing pyjamas and seize her computers and mobile phones...

Challenging WA’s Solitary Confinement Regime: An Interview With Dr Hannah McGlade

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On 29 July, a WA Supreme Court challenge was lodged against that state’s practice of subjecting inmates to prolonged solitary confinement, which the main UN standards on prisoner treatment considers to be torture. The challenge was on behalf of three...

Police Officer Who Endangered Domestic Violence Victim Wins Appeal

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A Queensland Court has set aside the conviction of a Police Officer who hacked into the State’s confidential database, and then gave the address of a domestic violence victim to his ‘mate’, the woman’s abusive former partner. Senior Constable Neil...
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