Police Officer Who Endangered Victim Refuses to Testify
A Queensland Police officer who was found to have illegally accessed the police database and leaked a domestic violence victim’s address to her abusive former partner - a man who is reported to be his ‘mate’- has relied upon the ‘privilege against...
Empowering Adolescent Girls: An Interview With Plan Australia’s Holly Crocket
Kampala is ranked amongst the fastest growing cities in Africa, and reported crime is on the rise Cases of robbery, rape and harassment are common. This has led to a situation where 80 percent of the adolescent girls living in the...
Supreme Court Slams Salim Mehajer
Former Auburn Deputy Mayor Salim Mehajer was sentenced in June 2018 by Her Honour Magistrate Shurr in Downing Centre Local Court to spend a full term of 21 months in prison, with a minimum term of 11 months. The sentence...
NSW Police Continue Unfair Exclusion Policy at Music Festivals
There was a public outcry mid-year after NSW police began employing a new strategy, whereby punters were denied entry to music festivals following a positive indication by a drug detection dog even though no illicit substances were subsequently found. And despite...
New Adoption Laws Will Intensify Stolen Generation in NSW
Currently, there’s an amendment bill before the NSW upper house that if passed would place a two year limit on the amount of time a child can remain in out-of-home care prior to the court having the power to order...
Death of Racing Horse Sparks Fresh Calls for Reform
It’s been dubbed the ‘race that stops a nation’. For less than 4 minutes every year, many Australians drop everything to watch the Melbourne Cup - the country’s most famous horse race. For most of them, it’s an afternoon to...
Pill Testing, Not Penalties: An Interview With Take Control’s Kieran Palmer
Two young people died after taking drugs at the Defqon.1 festival in September. At the time, there was saturation policing at the music festival. There were 194 police officers deployed at the event, some of whom were accompanied by drug detection dogs....
NSW Premier Plays the Race Card
NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian caused a stir last month when she took aim at her new whipping boy: immigrants. The daughter of Armenian migrants herself, the premier said she wants the state’s migration levels to be halved. “The rates have gone...
Tinder Rapist Granted Bail
In the Melbourne County Court last week, Glenn Antony Hartland pleaded guilty to raping three women and indecently assaulting a fourth. His pleas of guilty were followed by an application for bail, which was granted by the court on strict...
Angry Anderson’s Son Bashed to Death
It has been reported that Liam Anderson, the 26-year old son of Rose Tattoo lead singer Gary “Angry” Anderson, was bashed to death during a violent altercation at the corner of Pavilion Street and Bridge Road, Queenscliff, in Sydney’s Northern...
