How Much Will My Sentence Be Reduced If I Plead Guilty?
A 64-year old man facing 23 allegations of historical child sexual offences, including having sexual intercourse with a person under the age of 16-years, has changed his plea from not guilty to guilty just hours after his trial started. The...
Grassroots Australia Mobillises Against Genocide: CoCo Speaks to Palestinian Hunger Striker
A disconnect is apparent in the stance the Australian political class has taken towards the genocidal intent the Israeli state has unleashed upon the Palestinian population of Gaza, who, after 16 years of living in open-air prison conditions, are now...
Authoritarianism Accelerates: Associate of Assange Investigated Under UK Terrorism Laws
Australian journalist and publisher Julian Assange continues to sit in London’s Belmarsh Prison, as he’s been remanded for more than four years on behalf of Washington, which reached out across international borders to arrest and then prosecute the foreign national...
Stop the Genocide: Fifty Thousand Strong in Sydney Call for Gaza Ceasefire Now
Gathered for a fifth Sunday in a row, grassroots Sydney mobilised calling for a ceasefire to end the genocide being perpetrated by the Israeli state upon the Palestinian population living in one of the most densely populated areas on Earth,...
Prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann: Police Join DPP in an Attempt to Clear Their Names
This time last year, then ACT top prosecutor, Shane Drumgold, and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) were engaged in a bitter feud - a slanging match criticising each other’s handling investigation and prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann over sexual assault allegations...
AstraZeneca Faces Court Over Claims its Covid Vaccine is Dangerous
Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca is facing criminal proceedings in the High Court of the United Kingdom, over claims the vaccine which made it hundreds of millions of dollars and a household name is not as effective as marketed and has greater...
Gaza: Australia is Complicit in the Neocolonial Crime of the Century
“We say that Israel has a right to defend itself, but how it defends itself matters and we want to see all innocent lives protected,” PM Anthony Albanese told a 1 November 2023 press conference in Sydney, which appears to be...
Can a Diabetic Episode be a Legal Defence? Automatism in NSW
It has been reported that the driver of a vehicle which ploughed through a roadside beer garden in regional Victoria last week, killing five people, may have been experiencing a diabetic episode. The effects of diabetes can give rise to...
The Offence of Causing Danger with a Firearm in New South Wales
A Sydney-based police officer has been handed a criminal conviction and placed on a good behaviour bond after pointing a loaded pistol at a junior colleague and threatening “I’ll shoot you”. 30-year old Constable Dominic Gaynor pointed his police-issued Glock...
Australian University Severs Ties with Israeli Company Over Genocide in Gaza
The genocide taking place in Gaza has been nonstop for over 30 days now. The death toll in what the UN is calling the “children’s graveyard” has surpassed 10,000 people, with over 70 percent of the dead being women and children. And there’s...
