The Finance Department’s Digital ID Explanation Still Seems to Suggest Mass Surveillance
Sydney Criminal Lawyers posted the article The Coming Biometric Digital ID Will Facilitate Nationwide Surveillance on 3 August 2023. It outlined the bipartisan proposal to establish a national digital ID system with the Albanese government set to release draft exposure legislation this...
An ‘Absolute Dog Act’: Queensland Government Suspends State’s Human Rights Act
In a move described by the manager of opposition business, Andrew Powell, as a “disgraceful abuse of parliamentary process” and the “biggest affront to democracy in Queensland’s history”, the Queensland government has rushed through legislation to ‘suspend’ its Human Rights...
Federal Human Rights Protections Could Halt Our Descent Towards Totalitarianism
“A Human Rights Act is Australia’s absent foundational pillar, our missing link,” Civil Liberties Australia CEO Bill Rowlings makes clear. “And its absence affects every citizen, because we don’t know precisely where we stand in relation to our government.” Indeed, CLA...
Barristers Propose Injecting Murderers with ‘Truth Serum’ to Locate Bodies
Two high profile barristers have caused controversy this week, suggesting that convicted murderers who refuse to tell authorities the location of the remains of their victims, should be forcibly injected with what is commonly known as ‘truth serum’. Former New...
Leg Sweep, Anyone? NSW Police Continues Reign of Excessive Force, Despite Rising Calls for Reform
A NSW police officer arrested an 18-year-old First Nations man with a disability on suspicion of two attempted break and enters last week. And as the officer walked his captor away, the teen dropped to the ground having a violent seizure,...
PJCIS: Major Party National Security Law Rubber Stamping Club’s Mandate to Broaden
Since 9/11, the Australian government has passed coming up on close to 100 pieces of national security/counterterrorism legislation, with bipartisan approval, that, along with enhancing the security state, has served to whittle away at the basic rights and liberties of...
Doli Incapax and the Age of Criminal Responsibility in Australia
Just after 4pm on Thursday, 25 May 2023, emergency services responded to reports of a fire at a multi-storey building in Surry Hills, near Sydney’s central business district. More than 100 firefighters attended the scene but were unable to extinguish...
The Political Climate Is Ripe for a Human Rights Act in New South Wales
Australia remains the only liberal democracy globally without rights protections enshrined in federal law. Indeed, until not so long ago, no bill of rights or Human Rights Act (HRA) existed at any level of government: that was until the often-pioneering...
‘Mastermind’ of Australia’s Biggest Tax Fraud Receives Lengthy Prison Sentence
Adam Cranston, who was found to be one of the ‘masterminds’ behind Australia’s biggest tax fraud, has been sentenced to 15 years behind bars. Adam Cranston is the son of former deputy commissioner of the ATO, Michael Cranston. He appeared...
Thorpe Exposes Inconvenient Truths Suppressed by the Voice Debate at the Press Club
One of the greatest travesties of the Voice debate has been its suppression of one of the most vital positions against the establishment of the advisory body, which posits that it will be a powerless and poor substitute for progressing...
