Police Officer Imprisoned for Domestic Violence
Shaun Perry stared at his estranged wife and children as he learned he would spend more than two-and-a-half years behind bars for offences including spitting in his wife’s face, pulling her hair, and assaulting her with a weapon. Perry, a...
The Footage Police Fought to Keep Hidden
It’s the CCTV footage the Victorian Police Association fought to prevent the public from seeing: police officers dousing a woman with pepper spray, forcibly dragging her along the floor of the police station, standing on her legs and kicking her...
Lawyer Ordered to Pay Police Officer $150,000 for Online Accusations
Sergeant Colin Dods says he thinks about the shooting of Tyler Cassidy every day, and that the dates of the young man’s birth and death are ‘seared’ into his mind. Officer Dods has been awarded $150,000 in damages, after a jury...
Electronic Frontiers Australia: An Exclusive Interview with Jon Lawrence
Since its establishment, Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) has been one of the more influential, if not obscure, lobby groups in Australia. Founded in 1994, it’s been leading the burgeoning movement to secure what we now call “digital rights”, campaigning for...
Criminal Lawyer Punished for Pressuring Sexual Abuse Victim
Victorian criminal defence lawyer Alex Lewenberg has been suspended from practising law for 15 months and ordered to pay the Legal Services Commissioner $55,455 in costs after pressuring a complainant not to assist police in the prosecution of an alleged...
Is Rugby League Rigged?
Stunned NSW Blues fans could not believe their eyes when the NRL bunker overturned two critical decisions by the on field referee in Wednesday night’s State of Origin opener, letting Queensland off-the-hook in the last fifteen minutes. Only 14 minutes from...
Police Commissioner Related to Officer who ‘Washed the Blood Away’
For four years, former police Sergeant Rick Flori has been fighting allegations that he engaged in ‘misconduct in public office’ - a criminal offence which carries a maximum penalty of seven years imprisonment – by leaking CCTV footage of four...
Honest Cop Fights On
Former Police Sergeant Rick Flori has been fighting to clear his name for more than four years. A Southport Magistrate has now ordered that his fight will continue – in a committal hearing late last week, Magistrate Michael Hogan ruled...
Judge Orders Barristers to Take Off Their Wigs
The barristers’ wig is slowly but surely becoming a thing of the past. Victorian Chief Justice Marilyn Warren has officially banned wigs across all courtrooms in the southern state, saying they are outdated and no longer relevant. The ban was...
Police Investigate Gay-Hate Murders
The New South Wales Police Force has launched an operation to re-investigate dozens of deaths between the late 1970s and early 2000s which it believes could be the result of gay-hate crimes. Operation Parrabell, a taskforce comprised of eight detectives,...
