Weinstein Faces Further Sexual Assault Charges
A New York judge has paved the way for Harvey Weinstein to be extradited from prison in New York to California to face further charges. The former Hollywood movie producer and co-founder of the Miramax film studio, which prodiced blockbusters...
Surveillance State Laws That Enabled the Encryption-Busting Anom App Affect Us All
Home affairs minister Karen Andrews called Operation Ironside the “most significant operation in policing history” at an 8 June press conference, while AFP commissioner Reece Kershaw outlined that the crime sting had resulted in 224 arrests, had shut down six...
Law Enforcement Outwits Alleged Criminal Syndicates: The ANOM App
Police have arrested more than 800 alleged members of criminal syndicates around the world by using an innovative phone app that tricked them into believing their communications could not be monitored or traced. Technology and innovation The encrypted app worked...
Dutton Puts Aussies at Risk Through His Rhetoric and Actions Towards China
The newly minted Australian defence minister has further turned up the volume on the war with China rhetoric. This time Peter Dutton’s backing a plan to rotate larger numbers of US troops through the Northern Territory, as well as for...
Dungays Take NSW Government to the United Nations, Backed by Legal Heavyweights
Aunty Leetona Dungay has resolved to take both the Australian and the NSW governments to the United Nations to seek justice in relation to the killing of her son David Dungay Junior at the hands of Long Bay Gaol prison...
The Twisted Affairs of the Australian Soldier Accused of War Crimes in Afghanistan
Suggestions of unethical conduct, including an undisclosed conflict of interest, have delayed the defamation case brought by a former Australian soldier against three newspapers. Former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith’s claim that the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Canberra Times...
Vaccine Apartheid: Morrison Backs Big Pharma in Denying Poorer Nations
As criticism of the Coalition government’s rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine reaches fever pitch in line with the Melbourne lockdown, a lesser-known fact is that Scott Morrison is continuing to side with a small group of richer nations who refuse...
The Racist Implications of the Age of Criminal Responsibility in Israel and Australia
Prior to their 11 day aerial assault upon Palestinian civilian populations in Gaza, Israeli authorities had come under international scrutiny for their detainment of five Palestinian children in March, as three of them were under the age of criminal responsibility,...
Lawyers for George Floyd’s Killer Plead for Probation
Criminal defence lawyers for the police officer who killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than 9 minutes as he pleaded for breath have filed submissions to the effect that their client should be placed on probation,...
New Zealand Deportees Take Class Action Against Morrison Migration Regime
A group of lawyers, activists and deportees in Christchurch has just announced its intention to launch a class action in the Australian Federal Court to challenge the Coalition government’s mass deportation of New Zealander residents, along with those of other...
