‘Fake Lawyer’ Shot Dead by New South Wales Police
A mentally ill man who was previously convicted of falsely representing himself as a lawyer in court has been fatally shot by police in the doorway of a medical clinic in Nowra, on the Southern Coast of New South Wales. ...
How to Write a Character Reference to the Court
Sydney man Matthew Laba pleaded guilty to offences relating to impersonating a lawyer in courts across the greater Sydney region on 6 November 2023. The 29-year-old defendant didn’t appear in Downing Centre Local Court to enter his plea though, rather his...
Melbourne Mass Drug Overdose Provides the “Mandate” to Rollout Pill Testing
Eight festivalgoers were in critical condition following a mass overdose incident at Melbourne’s Hardmission Festival last Saturday night. And so widespread was the negative impact upon those who’d taken the same bad batch of pills that event medics had to...
“Hospitals Are Not Targets”: Sydney Healthcare Workers Continue to Call for Gaza Ceasefire
The ongoing genocide in Gaza is a crime against all humanity as it legitimises the killing of innocent children, civilian women and men, as well as the targeted killing of journalists and healthcare workers, so as to ensure the annihilation...
The Unreported Sea of Pro-Palestinian Humanity Continues to March on Sydney: 13th Week in Photos
No one contemplated the carnage Israel has been perpetrating on Gaza would be ongoing thirteen weeks on, as such was its scale to begin with that the magnitude of the humanitarian crisis that would be occurring right now would be...
Disrupt Burrup Hub Advisor Criticised for Media Prowess: Interview with Jesse Noakes
Disrupt Burrup Hub arrived on the scene in January last year, capturing the nation’s attention as artist and activist Joana Partyka spray painted the Woodside logo onto the classic Australian painting “Down on His Luck”, in a move that didn’t damage...
‘Safe Drivers’ Will Soon Have One Demerit Point Erased
More than one million drivers will have a demerit point wiped from their licences, on 17 January 2024, provided they have not committed a traffic offence for the year leading up to that date. The removal of one demerit point from...
Howard’s Greenlighting of Iraq Looms Ominously, So It’s Hardly Surprising Files Are Missing
With the UK troubled at home and unable to maintain its presence in Asia, then Labor PM John Curtin announced to Australia in December 1941 that, in the midst of the Second World War, the nation was turning to the...
UN Anti-Torture Body Condemns Australia, After Local Authorities Ran It Out of Town
Since the mid-2016 revelations around the abuse of First Nations children at the hands of non-Indigenous adult officers in Darwin’s Don Dale youth justice centre, the understanding that torture is a practice that does take place in some deep recesses of...
The New Offences and Penalties that Apply to Possessing a Knife in a Public Place in NSW
Former NSW attorney general Mark Speakman charged the NSW Sentencing Council in 2022, with inquiring into the sentencing provisions regarding offences dealing with firearms, knives and other weapons. And the focus was to be on the carrying of weapons and whether...
