Politician Charged with Forgery, Fraud and Lying Under Oath
Former Western Australian MP Barry Urban has been charged with a dozen dishonesty offences including forgery, giving false evidence and fraud offences following his resignation from parliament. The story so far Former Labor MP, Barry Urban, quit Western Australian Parliament...
Dr Katelaris Spent Four Months in Prison for Possessing Massage Oil
Renowned medicinal cannabis practitioner Dr Andrew Katelaris was arrested in April after being pulled over by police on the Central Coast. The doctor was charged with supply of a prohibited drug, as an officer found two small bottles of what...
Australia’s First Free Trans Legal Service: An Interview with ICLC’s Hilary Kincaid
Sydney’s Inner City Legal Centre (ICLC) launched Australia’s first pro bono transgender and gender diverse legal service on 10 September. The pilot Trans and Gender Diverse Legal Service will be operating once a fortnight in Kings Cross. The ICLC has partnered...
Richmond’s Safe Injecting Room Saves Lives: An Interview With NRCH’s Demos Krouskos
The North Richmond Medically Supervised Injecting Room (MSIR) opened its doors on 30 June, and it’s already been hailed a success. Over its short time in operation, staff at the facility have treated over 140 people for potentially fatal overdoses. The...
ABF and Police Powers to be Further Expanded
As one traveller recently discovered, Australian Border Force (ABF) officers have the power under section 186 of the Customs Act 1901 and its regulations to confiscate the electronic devices of those at the airport for up to 14 days. If...
Morrison Confirms Innocent Children Will Remain in Detention
Back in the early 1940s, the Nazis carried out medical experiments on large numbers of prisoners being held in concentration camps. Often resulting in trauma or death, the experiments were conducted without the consent of detainees, which included children. On...
The Frontier Violence Perpetrated by the NSW Mounted Police
Most Sydneysiders would have at one time or another seen members of the NSW Mounted Police out on patrol. Often these officers – who for the most part work in pairs – can be seen riding their horses down Surry Hills...
Driver Laughs as he Mows Down Mob of Emus
The driver suspected of running down at least a dozen terrified emus has be identified as a 20-year old man from Pinnaroo, a small town in South Australia. It has been reported that the suspect is the son of a...
Indigenous Deaths in Custody Continue Unabated
Two Aboriginal teens drowned in the Swan River on 10 September while being pursued by WA police. The youths - 17-year-old Jack Simpson and 16-year-old Chris Drage - made it to the middle of the river that flows through Perth, but...
Sleeping Rough in Sydney: An Interview With Martin Place Mayor Lanz Priestley
The release of the 2016 Census homelessness statistics in March confirmed what most already knew: the amount of people with no permanent fixed address in this country is on the rise. The ABS figures revealed that 50 out of every 10,000...
