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...
South Australian Criminal Offences Relating to the Death of a Cycling World Champion
The cycling community has been left in shock following the death of world champion rider Melissa Hoskins, allegedly at the hands of her husband, fellow cyclist Rohan Dennis. It has been reported that police will allege that Melissa Hoskins jumped...
Importing Any Disposable Vape Into Australia Is Now Banned
As of the 1st January 2024, a nationwide prohibition on the importation of single-use vapes came into effect, which is just the first stage in a crackdown upon this alternative to smoking, and the new year ban applies regardless of...
Criminal Offences Relating to Terrorist Organisations, Declared Areas and Foreign Fighting
Federal Attorney- General Mark Dreyfus informed the public during a press conference on 28 December 2023 that two Australian citizens were killed during an air strike in Southern Lebanon the previous night. The nation’s chief lawyer added that the listed...
Local Laws Criminalise Citizens Partaking on Either Side of the Israeli Carnage in Gaza
Two Australian citizens were killed by Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, attorney general Mark Dreyfus confirmed at a 28 December presser, and he added that Hizballah, a listed terrorist organisation, has claimed links to one of the Bazzi brothers....
