Karen Webb’s Cop Out: Police Commissioner Won’t Watch Tasering of Elderly Woman
New South Wales Police Commissioner Karen Webb says she ‘hasn’t’ and is adamant she ‘won’t’ watch the footage of her officers tasering an elderly woman who suffers dementia at a nursing home. The footage has been recorded on police body...
Albanese Condemns Australia to Decades of Austerity, as Bipartisan Militarisation Continues
US president Joe Biden cancelled next week’s Sydney Quad Leaders’ Summit on Wednesday. But not to worry, as China-focused security meetings are now coming so thick and fast that the next one will be around soon enough, especially with the growing...
NSW Police Taser 95-Year Old Woman in Nursing Home
An elderly New South Wales woman is fighting for her life in hospital after being tasered by police officers at a nursing home, causing her to fracture her skull as she hit the floor. Investigations into the actions of NSW...
Dodgy DNA Testing Casts Doubt on Thousands of Criminal Convictions
A scathing report handed down by a six-moth Queensland Commission of Inquiry into the state’s DNA testing methods, systems and processes has put thousands of convictions at risk of being overturned on appeal. Convicted murderer Andrew Cobby is the first who...
McBride Continues to Be Prosecuted, Despite War Crime Coverups Long Exposed
The AFP arrested former SAS officer Oliver Shultz on 20 March, following a joint investigation with the Office of the Special Investigator. The 41-year-old was charged with the war crime of murder, making him the first serving or ex ADF member to...
Sisters Inside Condemns Palaszczuk’s Youth Crime Crackdown, as Viable Alternatives Exist
The Palaszczuk government announced last week that it plans to build another children’s gaol in Woodford, right next door to the adult maximum-security facility in the local corrections precinct, which comes on the back of its decision last October to build another...
The Right to Legal Representation in Serious Criminal Cases
A group of religious adherents who are facing serious criminal charges over the death of an eight-year old girl in Queensland have refused to engage legal representation. The case raises important questions around the right to a fair trial, whether...
Queensland Police Commissioner Bows to Police Union by Backflipping on Chokehold Directive
The Head of the Queensland Police Union (QPU), Ian Leavers, has told the state’s police officers they can defy a direction issued by Queensland Police Commissioner, Katarina Carroll, to prohibit the use of potentially deadly ‘chokeholds’ on members of the...
AUKUS Powers Are Militarising Papua New Guinea in Preparation for War with China
Journalist John Pilger’s 2017 documentary The Coming War With China warned that the US had established a “perfect noose” of 400-odd military bases surrounding China, while former Australian PM Paul Keating recently asserted that the AUKUS deal makes us part of this “containment policy”....
Minns, Time to De-Christianise Parliament in Multifaith/Nonreligous NSW, Say Rationalists and Greens
The March state election saw Catholic premier Dominic Perrottet hand over the reins of NSW top minister to current Catholic premier Chris Minns, who is now set to establish a multifaith religious advisory group to parliament with a direct line to...
