Police Officer Appeals Conviction, In an Effort to Keep His Job
The Queensland Police officer who received a suspended sentence after pleading guilty to illegally accessing and using information from a police database is now appealing his sentence. Senior Constable Neil Punchard was convicted after leaking a domestic violence victim’s address...
Suspicious Circumstances: Tane Chatfield’s Alleged Suicide Doesn’t Add Up
As Colin Chatfield puts it, his son was about to be released from prison in relation to charges he’d been remanded over for two years, as eight witnesses couldn’t identify him during his trial as being involved in the armed...
22-Year Old Woman Strip Searched In Front of Shop Window
Twenty-two year old Teleaha Bower was with her partner last month, when she was approached by two undercover male police officers outside a pawn shop in St Mary’s and told she would be strip searched. She says the officers claimed...
Indigenous Teen Shot Dead by Police
The family of an Indigenous man shot by police over the weekend at a remote Indigenous community in the Northern Territory are still desperately trying to find out what happened to their son. 19-year old Kumanjayi Walker died after being...
The Offence of Consorting in New South Wales
In the nation’s capital territory, motorcycle club-related crime is reportedly on the rise. Recent incidents have included a large brawl in a bar between rival club members, a targeted shooting and the fire-bombing of a house. In response, ACT attorney...
Another NSW Police Officer Faces Court Over Assault Charges
Another senior NSW police officer is facing court accused of multiple assault offences while on duty. He has been charged with two counts of common assault and one of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, in relation to an incident which...
People in High Places are Calling for Drug Decriminalisation
The global system of drug prohibition began in the early 20th century. Since then, a series of international drug control conventions have been established, ostensibly on the basis of trying to reduce the harms that certain drugs cause in the...
Suspicious Circumstances: Rebecca Maher, Neglected and Left to Die
A little after midnight on 19 July 2016, NSW police sergeant Nathan Brooks came across Rebecca Maher and her companion DT - not his real name - on Wollombi Road in Cessnock. Rebecca appeared intoxicated to Brooks, as “she was...
“Don’t Take Advantage of Our System”: Racist Traffic Cops Lay Bare NSW Police Culture
Recently released footage shows NSW police officers driving around metropolitan Sydney, pulling people over a young woman and confronting her in such a manner that one would think she’d committed a heinous crime, rather than some minor traffic offences that...
Top 20 Legal Aid Fee Earning Law Firms in NSW
Private law firms play an important role in assisting those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds to access the family law and criminal justice systems, by undertaking work for free or at a reduced rate under programs such as the Law Society’s...
