Government Continues Callous Mistreatment of Refugees, Despite Community Embrace
Mostafa Azimitabar has been announced a finalist in this year’s Art Gallery of NSW Sulman Prize. And this is following the Kurdish refugee, who spent seven years detained by our government on Manus Island, having succeed in making it as...
New Deportation Regime Fails Terminally Ill Father of Six Australian Children
Robert Taylor was recently diagnosed with lung cancer and, as the disease has commenced spreading to his bones, the UK-born 50-year-old father of six Australian kids and nine grandchildren is afraid his time is running out. In a sign of...
Conditional Release Orders in New South Wales
Former NRL star Brett Stewart has pleaded guilty to cocaine possession. The Former Manly Sea Eagles star and part-time coach was arrested last month after police witnessed him making an illegal drug deal on a suburban street on the Northern...
WA Kids in Adult Prison Crisis Worsens, Despite State Having Proven Punitive Measures Fail
Civil society groups and the judiciary had long been breathing down the neck of WA’s Banksia Hill child prison in regard to its abuse of inmates via the use of solitary confinement, when last July, after further unrest, the authorities sent...
Should Those Involved in Tax Fraud Schemes be Sent to Prison?
Lauren Cranston will spend at least five years behind bars for her role in the hundred million dollar Plutus Payroll tax fraud scheme. The 30-year old is the daughter of Michael Cranston, a former deputy commissioner of the Australian Taxation...
As Governments Clamp Down on Protest, Climate Defenders Are Using New Tactics
Over the autumn of 2022, climate defenders taking direct action on the streets to demand that the NSW government act on the global heating emergency were transformed into public enemy number one, even though they’d recently been part of a flourishing...
Can a Social Media Post Amount to a Criminal Offence?
New South Wales politician Alex Greenwich MP has threatened a three-prong legal attack against former politician and One Nation candidate Mark Latham over a homophobic Tweet posted earlier this year. But the One Nation Leader remains resolute in his refusal...
The Legal Status of Sex Work Across Australia
The Queensland government has announced it will implement a decriminalised model of sex work, following a series of recommendations from the Queensland Law Reform Commission. The legal status of sex work varies throughout Australia, ranging from areas of significant criminalisation...
Coronial Inquests in NSW: Mandatory Inquests, Discretionary Inquests and Appeals
There will be no full coronial inquest into the death of the woman who accused Christian Porter of historical sexual assault. The South Australian Coroner, David Whittle, has officially ended the investigation and made a confidential finding into the cause...
The Offence of Unlawfully Importing a Firearm into Australia
A woman from the United States was arrested by Australian Border Force (ABF) earlier this week over allegations she attempted to import a firearm into Australia. But the pistol was not just any old firearm - but a 24 carat...
