The Offence of Peeping or Prying in New South Wales
A 30-year old man who was seen peering into a 13-year old girl’s bedroom window has been sentenced in Manly Local Court. Former real estate agent, Isaac Teu, was given a two-year intensive correction order which includes 400 hours of...
Good People Break Bad Laws: Animal Rights Activists
Activists around the globe promote 2018’s Dominion as the quintessential animal rights documentary that exposes the cruelty underlying the modern animal agriculture industry. But, it was 2014’s Lucent that landed director Chris Delforce in hot water. For revealing the rampant...
Ice Inquiry Makes Recommendations, But Government Has Its Head in the Sand
In its final report, the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry into the Drug “Ice” outlines that the use of methamphetamine and other similar drugs “requires compassionate responses consistent with human rights approaches, rather than punitive responses that can compound the...
Sports Rorts Scandal: A Coalition ‘Slush Fund’
Calls of ‘corruption’ and ‘misuse of public funds’ have come from far and wide, but Prime Minister Scott Morrison continues to reject evidence which suggests that the government’s sports funding program was improperly used to enhance its prospects of winning...
Police Accused of Lying About Use of ‘Ineffective’ Facial Recognition Software
An online tech news source recently ran a story detailing a data breach at controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI, which exposed its entire client list. According to the report, the list includes four Australian police organisations, comprising the Queensland...
Dutton Plans to Set Our International Spy Agency Upon Citizens
Home affairs minister Peter Dutton quietly announced to the ABC a fortnight ago that the Morrison government’s - often denied - push to turn the nation’s international spying agency on its own citizens is close to finalisation. The minister rolled...
Police Prosecutors’ Duty of Disclosure in NSW Local Courts
On 28 April 2018, Harley Bradley bit the finger of Katie O’Connor to the extent that it cut to the bone. And on the advice of a community caseworker she subsequently reported the incident, which had led to the need...
Does Your Boss Remind You of Hitler?
It seems there was a time when pretty much anyone and anything could be a punchline. But in this day and age of political correctness, it can seem as though the pendulum has swung in the other direction, and that...
NSW Still Forces Trans People to Undergo Surgery for Legal Recognition
A January 2019 ruling of the Japanese Supreme Court in the case of a 43-year-old transgender man who challenged having to undergo sterilisation in order to gain legal recognition of his gender sparked international condemnation, as it was found the...
White Supremacists: The Real Terrorism Threat
The Australian Security and Intelligence Agency (ASIO) has identified the “Neo Nazi movement” as a considerable threats to Australia’s national security. Every year, the director-general of ASIO delivers a terrorism threat assessment with a view to identifying and taking measures...
