Crime and Incarceration: An interview with BOCSAR director Dr Don Weatherburn
NSW crime rates are at their lowest in over forty years, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) figures revealed last month. Crime across most of NSW was found to have either declined or remained stable in most major...
Aussie Sues Over Obese Airline Passengers
A NSW man is suing American Airlines after allegedly being ‘squashed’ during a long-haul flight from Australia to the USA. Michael Anthony Taylor, of Wollongong, is suing the airline for more than $100,000 in damages, saying he was crushed by...
Man Set to Die in Prison for Traffic Offences
Marshall Wallace is an Aboriginal man from a remote outstation in the Northern Territory, who recently moved to Mount Isa with his wife, so he could undergo chemotherapy. Two weeks ago, he was pulled over by police and found to...
Police Accused of Pressuring Alleged Victims to Withdraw Complaints
The Queensland auditor general has accused the state’s police service of unacceptable practices when collating crime statistics and even distorting crime rates by ‘soliciting’ victims to withdraw complaints. The auditor general’s report, tabled in parliament last week, found that the Queensland...
The Political Sacrifice of Schapelle Corby
Schapelle Corby’s parole period is coming to an end. After spending almost a decade behind bars in Indonesia on a conviction of trafficking cannabis - a drug that is now legal in eight US states - Ms Corby will finally be allowed...
NSW Police Adopt US-Style ‘Confront and Neutralise’ Policy
Around 8,000 NSW police officers have undergone special training in what the police commissioner describes as a response to “a new kind of normal”. Active Armed Offender Training began in 2015, and is designed to re-train officers in dealing with...
We’re Importing Medical Marijuana, While Police Are Raiding Local Producers
The first two commercial batches of legal medicinal cannabis products were imported into Australia earlier this week. The medicines were produced in Canada and are being held by Health House International in WA and the Pharmaceutical Packaging Professionals in Victoria. The imports...
Imprisonment Does Not Reduce Crime: An Interview with UNSW Professor Eileen Baldry
NSW is about to reach its highest incarceration rate for the past century. This week, the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) released the state’s latest custody statistics, which show that at the end of March the adult...
Child Sex Offender Cleared to Become a Lawyer
A former male escort who pleaded guilty to having sex with a minor has won the right to apply for admission as a lawyer. The law graduate, known only as KMB, successfully appealed a decision by the Queensland Legal Practitioner Admissions...
Attacks on Paramedics on the Rise
Queensland is the latest state to propose extra measures to protect paramedics following a spate of attacks on emergency workers. Three recent attacks have highlighted the dangers faced by paramedics who are trying to help those in need. Queensland critical...
