NSW Police Watchdog to Review Lawfulness of Bail Compliance Checks
After a person is arrested and charged with a criminal offence in New South Wales, police will decide whether the defendant will be released on bail from the police station, or remanded in custody to face a bail application in...
Double-Demerit Points Apply Over King’s Birthday Long Weekend
With the New South Wales road toll rising to 158 in 2024, 26 more than for the same period last year, drivers are being urged to drive carefully this King’s Birthday long weekend and refrain from committing traffic offences, and...
Australians Fighting in Gaza Should’ve Been Warned of Potential Prosecution, Says Greg Barns SC
The Netanyahu government issued a 10 October 2023 call for its 360,000 army reservists to show up for military action it had launched in the Gaza Strip. And it’s understood that about 1,000 Australians with dual citizenship heeded the call...
Thousands of Australian Public Servants Speak Out Against Israeli Atrocities
One of the big news stories last Thursday was over 300 Australian public servants had signed an open letter calling on the PM and his government to end their “support of the genocide, ethnic cleansing and illegal occupation of Palestine...
Naarm and Gadigal Escalate for Rafah and Against Australian Complicity in Gaza
Warning: Senior Australian political figures and editors of the Murdoch press are running a concerted campaign to equate antigenocidal demonstrations and sentiment in relation to Gaza as antisemitic, so continue reading at your own risk of being corrupted. Pro-Palestinian protesters...
Northern Territory Curfew Laws Target First Nations Youth
A quick perusal of the new laws permitting the NT police commissioner to impose snap curfews as a crime prevention measure finds them colourblind, in that the policing powers recently gifted to the Northern Territory Police Force can be applied...
As Online Content Fuels the Free Palestine Movement, Government Attempts to Suppress It
The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), an armed libertarian socialist group of Indigenous peasants from the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, seized urban centres to establish autonomous decentralised zones on 1 January 1994: the day the North Atlantic Free...
NSW Government’s Youth Incarceration Drive Lacks Vision or “Any Deep Sense of Justice”
“No one wants to be in the situation where we are locking up young people,” NSW premier Chris Minns told Sunrise on 18 March 2024, just days after his government’s new tough-on-youth-crime laws were introduced into state parliament, and the...
Proposed Federal Anti-Hate Speech Laws: Silencing Outrage Over Gaza
Israel recently dropped huge metal bombs on Palestinian civilian refugees, mainly women and children, sheltering in tents in an area of Rafah that Israel had designated a safe zone. Yet, those in the Australian community making loud protestations about this...
Attorney-General Can Save Dan Duggan from US Extradition Over China Panic Pretext
New South Wales Magistrate Daniel Reiss gave the greenlight to the US request to extradite former US marine and current Australian citizen Dan Duggan at Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court on Friday, 24 May 2024,which is a decision that has...
