Noongar Not for Sale: Indigenous Activists Fight Government and Mining Interests
The Federal Court ruled that the Noongar Native Title Settlement was void on 2 February last year. In what became known as the McGlade decision, the court found the agreement between the Noongar people and the WA government was invalid as...
Judge Recognises that Medicinal Cannabis Producers are Not Criminals
The benefits of cannabis medicine are becoming widely accepted within the Australian community. However, laws around the non-profit cultivation of the plant to help the sick continue to carry the same level of criminality as the laws for those who...
Sydney Criminal Lawyer Charged with Accessory to Murder
It has been reported that 38-year old Sydney criminal defence lawyer Ali Abbas was formally arrested at Surry Hills Police Station at around 6am today, and charged with being an accessory after the fact of the murder of 15-year old...
The Influence of the Media on Copycat Crimes
The recent strawberry contamination crisis had a devastating effect on berry farmers across the nation. It appears to have started as a relatively isolated incident, where an individual or small group decided to insert needles into berries from two Queensland...
Sydney Offices and Home of Criminal Lawyer Raided by Police
It has been reported that homicide detectives executed a search warrant at around 2pm today on the Castlereagh Street, Sydney offices of criminal defence lawyer Ali Abbas in relation to last year’s shooting death of 15-year old Brayden Dillon. Investigators...
‘Justice Delayed is Justice Denied’: NSW Courts Get a Funding Boost
The New South Wales Government has announced a four-year, $148 million funding boost designed to help ease the pressure on the State’s overloaded court system. How the money will be used The money will be used to upgrade regional courts...
Truck Driver under Police Investigation over Racist Video
A South Australian truck driver who made an explicitly racist video about an Indian-Australian who is standing in local council elections is being investigated by Police. Truck driver Grant Moroney, of Grant Moroney Towing in Port Augusta, filmed himself with...
Sydney Police Officer Accused of ‘Vile, Cowardly and Intolerable’ Conduct
A Sydney police officer has been charged under the Criminal Code Act 1995 after allegedly threatening a public official in a phone call to Federal Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young. Ms Hanson-Young says the threats made by the officer were about...
Sydney Police Officer Charged with Child Sexual Assault
A Sydney police officer has been arrested and charged with a range of child sex offences, including attempted sexual intercourse with a child under 10, two counts of sexual intercourse with a child aged between the ages of 10 and...
Preventing Violence Against Women: An Interview With Our Watch CEO Patty Kinnersly
Ten women have been killed violently in Australia so far this month. And according to Destroy the Joint’s Counting the Dead Women Australia project, that brings the total number of women murdered nationwide due to violence against women this year...
