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...
System Protects Police Officer Who Endangered Victim
The Queensland Police Service (QPS) has made written submissions to the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT) arguing that it should not require the attendance of a police officer who was found to have illegally accessed the police database and...
Re-Radicalising Mardi Gras: An Interview with Pride in Protest’s Bridget Harilaou
The first Sydney Mardi Gras parade was a protest march for human rights. Members of the local LGBTIQ community walked down Oxford Street calling for an end to the criminalisation of their lives and the freedom to openly express their...
Only Half of the Serious Injuries on Our Roads are Recorded
According to the NSW Centre for Road Safety, only half of the serious injuries caused by road collisions are recorded road trauma statistics, because police and hospital records cannot be matched. The Centres reports that there were 11,557 people seriously...
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...
