NSW Government’s Relentless Attack on Our Right to Protest
The language used by NSW agriculture minister Adam Marshall as he introduced the Right to Farm Bill 2019 was somewhat suspect when he asserted that the legislation would “enshrine in law a farmer’s right to farm their land, to grow...
Why is White Ribbon Australia Shutting Its Doors?
With our nation in the grips of a domestic violence epidemic and the world still reeling from hundreds of thousands of allegations on the back of the global #MeToo movement, it’s difficult to fathom that White Ribbon Australia is shutting...
The NSW Police Force Has a (Strip) Search Quota System
KPIs and quotas are performance indicators that gained prominence in the late 1980s. They involve management setting ever increasingly high performance targets, which can often fail to be grounded in reality and ultimately, produce poor-quality results. In everyday life, key...
Sydney Criminal Solicitor Charged with Accessory to Murder
A criminal lawyer has been arrested and charged in relation to the murder of Craig Anderson, who was shot and killed at Doonside in Western Sydney earlier this year. The lawyer, Ms Alev Oncu, has been charged with accessory after...
Teen Charged with Cruelty to Kangaroos
A 19-year old man has been charged with animal cruelty after killing 19 Kangaroos in Tura Beach, on the New South Wales southern coast. It is alleged the man went on a killing spree over the weekend, spotlighting the animals...
NSW Greens Move to Legislate for Life-Saving Pill Testing Services
During the last music festival season, five young Australians died in drug-related circumstances at NSW events. And while the death toll was high, the lost lives were no anomaly, and the potential for more casualties is ever present. Decades of...
Free Susan Neill-Fraser: An Innocent Woman Behind Bars
A news report dated 9 October 2009 states that Susan Neill-Fraser had appeared in a Tasmanian court that day, regarding the murder of her de facto partner of 18 years Bob Chappell. At the time, she was on remand following...
Jock Palfreeman: Freedom So Close, Yet So Far
Sydney man Jock Palfreeman remains locked in an immigration detention centre in Bulgaria, awaiting a decision on whether he will be sent back to prison, or home to Australia as a free man. In the latest development in the bid...
New Tenancy Laws Give Domestic Violence Victims a Quick Exit
NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) figures released in June, revealed that over the 12 months to March this year, domestic violence (DV)-related murders doubled to 38 people, which was up from 19 homicides that occurred in domestic...
Wodak & Shoebridge on Scipione’s Talk of Drug Law Reform
These days, it’s well understood that the war on drugs has been a monumental failure. And there’s perhaps no one better placed to understand this, than those at the frontline of enforcing the prohibitionist laws that wreak havoc in the...
