Police Under Investigation Over Another Alleged Assault at Care Facility
Two South Australian Police Officers have been removed from active duty and are under investigation for potential assault charges after tasering and pepper spraying a man in his 60s at a care facility on 26 October 2023, leaving him with...
Richard Branson Calls on NSW to Decriminalise Drugs, “For God’s Sake”
“For God’s sake, do something about it,” global entrepreneur Richard Branson told NSW premier Chris Minns, as he ended a video message sent to the constituencies of the ACT and this state, after having pointed out that our part of the...
Food Delivery Riders Face Fines for Not Wearing High-Visibility Vests
It seems that as each year goes by, more and more rules come into effect regulating our everyday lives, ostensibly for our own protection but increasingly making it harder to go about our business without finding ourselves in the wrong...
Truthteller’s Criminal Trial Will Proceed, Despite His Actions Being in the Public Interest
David McBride has become a national figure for truth at a time when the concept of a moral truth -a right or a wrong, justice or the convenient twisting of the fact - has been so spun by the secretive,...
Criminal Offences Related to War Memorials and Cemeteries in NSW
In August this year, two men were fined thousands of dollars after pleading guilty to court after pleading guilty to damaging or defacing a heritage-listed war memorial at Casino on the North Coast of New South Wales. The site was damaged...
Can Good Character References Be Used During Sentencing Proceedings for Child Sex Offences?
Two young men are on a campaign to prohibit those who plead guilty or are found guilty of child sexual offences from using good character references during their sentencing hearings, which is the time when the magistrate or judge decides...
Does Australia’s “Significant” Deployment to the Middle East Anticipate Joining a Regional War?
The death toll in what is euphemistically being called the Israel-Hamas war, which basically involves the all-out slaughter of Palestinians living in Gaza on the part of Israeli forces, was at more than 8,300 Palestinians, according to UNICEF on Monday, which...
Another Teen Death in Custody, Despite 30-Year-Old First Nations Advice to Parliament
The recent death in custody of 16-year-old First Nations boy Cleveland Dodd has yet again highlighted the barbarity the Australian prison system metes out towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander detainees, especially Indigenous youths. For his part, Dodd was on...
We Don’t Sell Tickets! Qantas Files its Legal Defence
The media has had a field day this week with claims by Qantas that it doesn’t sell customers tickets to any particular flights, but rather a “bundle of rights” that includes alternative options in the event of cancellations. The case...
The ABC’s Decision to Disclose its Sources Marks a Dark Day for Democracy
Airing on 9 October 2023, the Four Corners documentary Escalation involved ABC journalists engaging with several Perth-based climate defence groups in regard to the rising pushback by WA police against nonviolent protests aimed at defending the climate against human-caused global heating. ...
