Sextortion Laws In Australia
There have been a rise of attempts in Australia of ‘sexual extortion’, abbreviated to ‘sextortion’, with social media sites being used to target and blackmail victims, many of whom are young men concerned about compromising images being distributed to friend,...
Plibersek’s Murray Darling Reform Bill Completely Excludes First Nations Water Rights
The Murray Darling Basin is the most important river system on the continent. The waters traverse four southeastern states and the Australian Capital Territory. And the region, which currently has a population of 2.3 million people, is also home to...
The Right to Party in Peace: NSW Heavy-Handed Drug Law Enforcement Is Unjustified
The NSW Police Force has spent $46 million dollars over the last decade in order to run its drug detection dog unit. This expenditure has led police officers to conduct 95,000 searches of civilians over the last ten years, with only...
Hate Speech, Gay Conversion and the NSW Faith Lobby: Minns’ Religious Freedoms Crusade
The tossing of international law out the window by Israel, as it attempts to wipe out the Palestinians of Gaza, in a war crimes bonanza so far six-weeks-long, has reverberated across a planet, which is mourning the loss of humanity...
Could Australian Politicians Be Complicit in Israeli War Crimes Perpetrated in Gaza?
A couple of hundred pro-Palestinian protesters converged on NSW premier Chris Minns’ Kogarah office on Monday. Their message was clear: if the Labor leader does not withdraw his support from the smorgasbord of war crimes that the Israeli government has unleashed...
Al-Shifa Hospital No More: Sydney Fills the Streets as the Horrors of Gaza Escalate
Six long weeks into the neocolonial crime of the century, Israel continues the all-out carpet-bombing assault on Gaza and has followed up with a ground invasion, as it ethnically cleanses the Palestinian population of the region with genocidal intent, and...
McBride’s Guilty Plea Has Sent a Chill Down the Spine of the Australian Polity
“That is a fatal blow,” said Mark Davis, the criminal lawyer representing former ADF legal officer David McBride, as he faces a five charge indictment for having blown the whistle on the Australian war machine in Afghanistan, which had fostered...
Court Suppresses Name of NSW Police Inspector Charged with High-Range Drink Driving
A New South Wales Local Court Magistrate has granted a suppression order in favour of a high-ranking police officer who is alleged to have driven his police-issued vehicle while driving with a high-range prescribed concentration of alcohol, collided into a...
Changing a Criminal Plea from Guilty to Not Guilty: The ‘Interests of Justice’ Test
In December 1988, American mathematician Scott Johnson’s body was found lying at the base of a cliff at north Headland on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. In 2017, a coronial inquest concluded that his death was caused by actual or threatened violence...
Dutton Embarks on Racist Dog Whistling, as the Indefinite Detention Regime Crumbles
Indefinite detention has long been a questionable linchpin of the local asylum-seeking system. The oft-criticised measure has been one of last resort, as it applies to cases where people cannot be deported into harm, yet, as they’ve broken laws here,...
