Schoolies Face Hangover From Hell
A group of ‘schoolies’ on the Gold Coast could be facing court for wilful damage after trashing a Gold Coast hotel room, ripping plaster off walls, and damaging furniture and carpets. The group went on a rampage inside a luxury...
Dying with Dignity Laws Passed in Victoria
Historic voluntary euthanasia laws passed Victoria’s upper house after a 28-hour marathon sitting, and the state is expected to become the first to legalise assisted dying for the terminally ill. The second reading resulted in 22 votes being registered in...
South Australia’s ‘Medicinal Cannabis Defence’ Hits a Roadblock
Independent public policy think tank Australia 21 released its latest report on drugs back in March. The document outlines thirteen key recommendations designed to minimise the harms associated with illicit substance use. Significantly, eleven of the sixteen participants who produced the report...
NSW Government Passes Thought-Crime Laws
The NSW upper house has passed a bill which will allow the Attorney General to apply to keep an inmate behind bars beyond the completion of their entire sentence if he thinks they may commit a terrorism-related offence sometime in...
When sending a ‘dick pic’ is not sexual harassment
A Coles baker who was fired for sending pictures of his penis to his manager has been cleared of ‘sexual harassment’. The story so far Brisbane man Jay Higgins was asked by his male manager via text message to provide...
Fears for the Life of the Boy Who Cannot Be Named
We previously reported that at around 4.30 pm on May 19 this year, two Department of Family and Community Services (FACS) workers, accompanied by four NSW police officers, entered Newcastle’s Church of Ubuntu, and removed a boy, who’d been residing there...
The Law Firm Without Lawyers
There’s a new law firm in Darwin calling itself the first in Australia with no lawyers. The firm has an office, but you make appointments with a computer and, when you attend, you sit at a screen and answer a...
Exposing Agricultural Brutality: An Interview with Chris Delforce
Date of first publication: 22 November 2017 A bill largely aimed at curbing stock theft and illegal hunting in rural NSW passed through state parliament on November 15. NSW Greens MLC David Shoebridge unsuccessfully pushed for an amendment to the...
Royal Commission Rejects Punitive Approach to Juvenile Justice
The final report of the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory was tabled in parliament on 17th November 2017. It represents an unequivocal rejection of the Territory’s ‘tough on crime’ approach to juvenile...
NSW Police Strip-Search Female Protesters
Two women protesting the treatment of asylum seekers on Manus Island have reported being arrested, conveyed to the police station and strip-searched before being released without charge. Susan Price and Rachel Evans were amongst around 200 people protesting Australia’s offshore...
